Anthropometric and Nutritional Evaluation of Native Indians Community from Icatú (Braúna/ SP).
Santos, A.C.; Bordini, M.A.; Javanez, V.L.; Iacovone, F.P.C.; Xavier, A.R. and Lopes, P.F.
The evaluation of the nutritional estate is an important resource to the analysis of health conditions in human communities. We have to pay more attention to this situation because the nutritional status can be influenced mostly by dynamics of economic and cultural changes as well as by transformation in strategies of sustenance, food ingestion and physical activity. Such changes are unpreventable in the native lifestyle in process of interaction with the civilized society. This current study had the goal to estimate the nutrition conditions of the native community of Icatú located in Braúna city (São Paulo State) by the analysis of nutritional profile and body build using anthropometric data, bioimpedance and the raise of people food intake habits to detect the presence of risk factors such as obesity and innutrition. The analysis was performed after collecting the data from 74 people from native community with age ranging from 02 up to 83 years-old. The results showed increased consume of industrialized food associated to the sedentary life. Such conditions are probably the causes of obesity and large abdominal circumference identified in most adult people, showing they are at high level risk of developing cardiovascular diseases. This fact reveals the urgent necessity of a professional nutrition intervention to rescue the health and eating behavior of this native population encountered at nutritional risk.
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