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Type: Artigo de Periódico
Title: Food-based dietary guidelines for children and adolescents
Authors: Júlia Laura Corrêa Rezende
Maria Carolina de Medeiros Frazão Duarte
Giselle Rhaisa do Amaral e Melo
Luana Caroline Dos Santos
Natacha Toral
Abstract: Objective: This study aimed at reviewing food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) with content targeted at children and adolescents to present their main characteristics, thus enabling comparisons among countries. Design: We conducted a search of the FBDGs available on the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) website, followed by a scoping review with a gray literature search to find FBDGs for children or adolescents non-listed on the FAO's website. Data extraction included the year of publication, language, and guidelines for the target group. Results: From FAO website searches, 109 documents were found, and 17 of them could not be translated. The Scoping review search conducted in 5,190 articles, and none led to new guidelines, nor from the gray literature. Regarding the 92 FBDGs explored, 41 were specific for infants under 24 months old, children, and/or adolescents, and 51 were for the general population with information for the studied group. Twelve percent of the general FBDG and 35% of the specific ones have food icons. All of the guidelines were published after 2001. Latin America and the Caribbean were the regions that presented more specific FBDGs and the majority of countries with guidelines for fruits and vegetables. The information about fat (15 countries) and sugar (26 countries) consumption reduction is frequent. Reduction of sodium intake appears to be in the majority of guidelines after 2015. Food hygiene guidelines are recurrent in Latin American documents. NOVA classification was adopted in five countries and 21 countries approach recommendations for mealtimes. Both exclusive and continued breastfeeding guidance and healthy complementary feeding orientation are present in over 50% of the specific FBDG for infants and children under 24 months old. Conclusion: Food-based dietary guidelines are diverse due to both the nutritional and political aspects of each region. Latin America stands out for its orientations for the studied group. Further studies should measure the possible impacts and comprehension of FBDGs.
Subject: Saúde Coletiva
Adolescente
Criança
Promoção da Saúde
Dieta
language: eng
metadata.dc.publisher.country: Brasil
Publisher: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher Initials: UFMG
metadata.dc.publisher.department: ENF - DEPARTAMENTO DE ENFERMAGEM MATERNO INFANTIL E SAÚDE PÚBLICA
ENF - DEPARTAMENTO DE NUTRIÇÃO
ENFERMAGEM - ESCOLA DE ENFERMAGEM
Rights: Acesso Aberto
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1033580
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/66056
Issue Date: 1-Dec-2022
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1033580/full
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Frontiers in Public Health
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