Higher consumption of ultra‐processed foods is associated with obesity and abdominal obesity in socially vulnerable Brazilian women

Author:

de Medeiros Jocione Mara1,Silva‐Neto Luiz Gonzaga Ribeiro2ORCID,dos Santos Thays Lane Ferreira2,dos Santos Neto João Eudes3,de Menezes Toledo Florêncio Telma Maria1

Affiliation:

1. Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Nutrição, Faculdade de Nutrição Universidade Federal de Alagoas Maceio Brazil

2. Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Nutrição, Escola Paulista de Medicina Universidade Federal de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil

3. Hospital Universitário Alcides Carneiro Empresa Brasileira de Serviços Hospitalares Campina Grande Brazil

Abstract

AbstractThis study aimed to assess the consumption of ultra‐processed foods (UPF) and identify their association with obesity and abdominal obesity in adult women of reproductive age living in situations of social vulnerability in Maceió, Northeastern Brazil. This was a cross‐sectional study carried out between October 2020 and May 2021. An anthropometric evaluation was carried out to assess obesity and abdominal obesity. A dietary assessment was also conducted using a 24‐h food recall to determine the calorie intake from UPF. To estimate intra‐individual variability in food consumption, the probabilistic Multiple Source Method was used. These data in the form of tertiles were used to analyse the association between the consumption of UPF and obesity and abdominal obesity. Logistic regressions were used to analyse the association. A directed acyclic graph (DAG) was created for this analysis. This study included 1702 women of which 53.7% were 31 years old or older, and 74.2% lived in poverty. It identified that 36.5% and 38.1% of the women had obesity and abdominal obesity, respectively, and that an average of 33.8% of calories consumed came from UPF. In the analysis of association guided by the DAG, it was observed that women with a high‐calorie intake from UPF had a 1.3 times higher probability of being obese. It was also observed that women with a moderate and high‐calorie intake from UPF were 1.4 and 1.3 times more likely, respectively, to have abdominal obesity. Thus, it can be concluded that socially vulnerable women in Brazil have a relatively high consumption of UPF and that this condition increases the probability of obesity in this population group.

Funder

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior

Publisher

Wiley

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