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La Niña weather impacts dietary patterns and dietary diversity among children in the Peruvian Amazon
- Source :
- Public Health Nutrition
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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Abstract
- Objective:In 2011–2012, severe El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) conditions (La Niña) led to massive flooding and temporarily displacement in the Peruvian Amazon. Our aims were to examine the impact of this ENSO exposure on child diets, in particular: (1) frequency of food consumption patterns, (2) the amount of food consumed (g/d), (3) dietary diversity (DD), (4) consumption of donated foods, among children aged 9–36 months living in the outskirts of City of Iquitos in the Amazonian Peru.Design:This was a longitudinal study that used quantitative 24-h recall dietary data collection from children aged 9–36 months from 2010 to 2014 as part of the MAL-ED birth cohort study.Setting:Iquitos, Loreto, Peru.Participants:Two hundred and fifty-two mother–child dyads.Results:The frequency of grains, rice, dairy and sugar in meals reduced by 5–7 %, while the frequency of plantain in meals increased by 24 % after adjusting for covariates. ENSO exposure reduced girl’s intake of plantains and sugar. Despite seasonal fluctuations in the availability of fruits, vegetables and fish, DD remained constant across seasons and as children aged. However, DD was significantly reduced under moderate La Niña conditions by 0·32 (P < 0·05) food groups. Adaptive social strategies such as consumption of donated foods were significantly higher among households with girls.Conclusions:This is the first empirical study to show differential effect of the ENSO on the dietary patterns of children, highlighting differences by gender. Public health nutrition programmes should be climate- and gender-sensitive in their efforts to safeguard the diets of vulnerable populations.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Longitudinal study
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
media_common.quotation_subject
Dietary diversity
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Biology
01 natural sciences
Food group
Cohort Studies
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
parasitic diseases
Peru
medicine
Climate change
Animals
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Girl
Longitudinal Studies
Amazon
Children
Weather
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
media_common
Nutrition
Consumption (economics)
El Nino-Southern Oscillation
Nutrition and Dietetics
Community Nutrition
Amazon rainforest
Public health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Diets
Diet
La Niña
Female
ENSO
Demography
Research Paper
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14752727 and 13689800
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Public Health Nutrition
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a67d8c5d42160f781922bd7e5e8b3b4a