Food Access and Nutritional Status of Rural Adolescents in India: Pune Maternal Nutrition Study

The relationships among food access, foods consumed, and nutritional status and health in developing countries are not well understood. Between 2013 and 2018, differences in the rural food environment and access to food, nutritional status, and body size in the rural villages where the Pune Maternal...

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Published in:American journal of preventive medicine 2020-05, Vol.58 (5), p.728-735
Main Authors: Ganpule-Rao, Anjali V., Roy, Devesh, Karandikar, Bhushana A., Yajnik, Chittaranjan S., Rush, Elaine C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access
Adolescent
Adolescent boys
Adolescent girls
Anemia
Availability
Biological markers
Blood
Body fat
Body mass index
Body size
Body Weight - physiology
Childbirth & labor
Developing Countries
Diet
Diet, Vegetarian
Female
Food
Food consumption
Food Security - statistics & numerical data
Health status
Healthy food
Hemoglobin
Humans
India
LDCs
Male
Malnutrition
Maternal nutrition
Nutrition
Nutritional Status
Rural areas
Rural Population
Shops
Socioeconomic Factors
Socioeconomic status
Surveys and Questionnaires
Teenagers
Villages
Vitamin B12
Waist
Water
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Summary:The relationships among food access, foods consumed, and nutritional status and health in developing countries are not well understood. Between 2013 and 2018, differences in the rural food environment and access to food, nutritional status, and body size in the rural villages where the Pune Maternal Nutrition birth cohort was recruited were measured and analyzed. Food access measures included the number of shops per 1,000 population, water availability, and distance from the highway. A total of 418 adolescents (223 boys, 195 girls) aged 18 years had diet assessed by a quantitative food frequency questionnaire; height, weight, and waist measured; body fat percentage determined by dual x-ray absorptiometry; and blood biomarkers (vitamin B12 and hemoglobin) assayed. By village, the number of shops per 1,000 population ranged from 3.85 to 23.29. Boys and girls from the 2 villages with the highest food access, year-round water availability, and closest to the highway were heavier and had higher BMI, waist circumference, and body fat percentage compared with those from the lowest tertile of food access (p
ISSN:0749-3797
1873-2607
DOI:10.1016/j.amepre.2019.10.017