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      Comportamiento alimentario en inmigrantes, aportes desde la evidencia Translated title: Food behavior in immigrants, contributions from the evidence

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          RESUMEN El objetivo de esta revisión fue describir la evidencia existente respecto del comportamiento alimentario y dieta en inmigrantes, sus características y las dimensiones consideradas para su estudio. Debido al aumento progresivo de la migración de latinoamericanos hacia Chile durante las últimas décadas y la escasa evidencia acerca del posible impacto que genera este nuevo contexto cultural en sus hábitos alimentarios, estado nutricional y salud en general. Se ha reportado que el proceso de migración tiende a provocar un impacto negativo en la salud de los inmigrantes asociados a un mayor riesgo de enfermedades cardiovasculares, diabetes mellitus, malnutrición por exceso y a una peor calidad de vida relacionadas a un mayor grado de asimilación y a conductas alimentarias poco saludables como el consumo de alimentos altamente procesados ricos en grasa y azúcares, mayor frecuencia de comida fuera del hogar y aumento de colaciones dulces. Sin embargo, existen diferencias por sexo, edad, país de origen, nivel socioeconómico, composición del barrio, y tiempo de residencia por lo que resulta necesario generar evidencia del contexto chileno que permita caracterizar el comportamiento alimentario y la dieta de los inmigrantes para diseñar medidas sanitarias culturalmente competentes que favorezcan su salud y calidad de vida.

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          ABSTRACT The objective of this review was to describe the existing evidence regarding the dietary behavior and diet of immigrants, their characteristics and the dimensions considered for their study due to the progressive increase in the migration of Latin Americans to Chile during the last decades and the scarce evidence about the possible impact generated by this new cultural context in eating habits, nutritional status and health in general. It has been reported that the migration process tends to have a negative impact on the health of immigrants associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, malnutrition due to excess and a lower quality of life related to a greater degree of assimilation and unhealthy behaviors such as the consumption of highly processed foods rich in fat and sugars, greater frequency of eating out and increased sweet snacks. However, there are differences by sex, age, country of origin, socioeconomic level, neighborhood composition and residence time so it is necessary to produce evidence from the Chilean context that allows for the characterization of food behavior and diet of immigrants to design culturally competent measures that favor health and quality of life.

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          Nisbett's (1972) model of obesity implies that individual differences in relative deprivation (relative to set-point weight) within obese and normal weight groups should produce corresponding within-group differences in eating behavior. Normal weight subjects were separated into hypothetically deprived (high restraint) and non-deprived (low restraint) groups. The expectation that high restraint subjects' intake would vary directly with preload size while low restraint subjects would eat in inverse proportion to preload size, was confirmed. It was concluded that relative deprivation rather than obesity per se may be the cirtical determinant of individual differences in eating behavior. Consideration was given to the concept of "restraint" as an important behavioral mechanism affecting the expression of physiologically-based hungar.
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              Food acculturation drives dietary differences among Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Non-Hispanic Whites.

              Our aim was to examine the effects of food acculturation on Mexican Americans' (MA) diets, taking the Mexican diet as reference. We used nationally representative samples of children (2-11 y) and female adolescents and adults (12-49 y) from the Mexican National Nutrition Survey 1999 and NHANES 1999-2006 to compare the diets of Mexicans (n = 5678), MA born in Mexico (MAMX) (n = 1488), MA born in the United States (MAUS) (n = 3654), and non-Hispanic white Americans (NH-White) (n = 5473). One 24-h diet recall was used to examine the percentage consuming and percentage energy consumed from selected food groups. Most of the food groups analyzed displayed a fairly linear increase or decrease in percent energy/capita intake in this order: Mexican, MAMX, MAUS, NH-White. However, few significant differences were observed among the US subpopulations, especially among MAUS and NH-Whites. Overall, compared to Mexicans, the US subpopulations had greater intakes of saturated fat, sugar, dessert and salty snacks, pizza and French fries, low-fat meat and fish, high-fiber bread, and low-fat milk, as well as decreased intakes of corn tortillas, low-fiber bread, high-fat milk, and Mexican fast food. Furthermore, the patterns were similar in all age groups. Although we found a mix of positive and negative aspects of food acculturation, the overall proportion of energy obtained from unhealthy foods was higher among the US subpopulations. Our findings indicate that within one generation in the US, the influence of the Mexican diet is almost lost. In addition, our results reinforce the need to discourage critical unhealthful components of the American diet among MA.
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                Role: ND
                Journal
                rchnut
                Revista chilena de nutrición
                Rev. chil. nutr.
                Sociedad Chilena de Nutrición, Bromatología y Toxicología (Santiago, , Chile )
                0717-7518
                April 2019
                : 46
                : 2
                : 190-196
                Affiliations
                [1] Antofagasta orgnameUniversidad Católica del Norte orgdiv1Escuela de Psicología Chile
                [2] Antofagasta orgnameUniversidad Santo Tomás orgdiv1Escuela de Nutrición y Dietética Colombia
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                S0717-75182019000200190
                10.4067/s0717-75182019000200190
                8279e88b-6466-4d28-b5f5-688d43aed6e2

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 26 October 2018
                : 07 June 2018
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 67, Pages: 7
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                ARTÍCULOS DE REVISIÓN

                Acculturation,Eating behavior,Food acculturation,Immigrants,Malnutrition,Aculturación,Aculturación alimentaria,Comportamiento alimentario,Inmigrantes,Malnutrición por exceso

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