Revista Brasileira de Obesidade, Nutrição e Emagrecimento

41-47

Authors: Vanessa Vieira Lourenço Costa, Marília de Souza Araújo, Ana Esmeralda Correa Caldas, Lilaine de Sousa Neres

The social, economic and demographic transformations in these last few decades due to the increasing of urbanization and modernization caused changes in lifestyle of the population and in your eating habits that resulted in the prevalence of the increased overweight and obesity, characterizing the nutritional transition. The waist circumference (WC) is able to estimates the intra-abdominal fat that reflects the mass of visceral adipose tissue. The aim of the study was to evaluate the nutritional profile in stratified sample of 96 women attending in Food and Nutrition Unit of the Social Service of Commerce (UAN/SESC), in Belem, Brazil, with anthropometric data (weight and height), to calculate the Body Mass Index (BMI) and measurement of waist circumference (WC), through cross-sectional study. The age average was 34.6 ± 9.8 years, with the majority (51%) is aged 20 to 34.9 years. The labor sector with the most representation was commerce, with 58.3% of women. Regarding the working hours, 60.4% of sample said not only work but also do housework. The majority is eutrophic (49%), and 39.6% are overweight. Regarding the CC, 66.3% of women proved to be suitable for this measure, with no significant risk for cardiovascular disease. The anthropometric measurements, when combined, increase the precision in the pathologies investigation that characterizes the nutrition transition experienced in recent decades, which tend mainly to affect women. Key words: obesity, intra-abdominal fat, body mass index.

55-64

Authors: Joyce Mara Diniz Xavier de Lima, Antonio Coppi Navarro

Food and nutrition are fundamental rights guaranteed to human consolidated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the Constitution and are basic requirements for the Health Promotion and Protection in Brazil this right is guided by the National Food and Nutrition and conduct surveillance issues related to this theme, the System food and Nutrition Surveillance (SISVAN) was created in order to carry out the collection, processing and analysis of population groups on an ongoing basis in order to obtain a current diagnosis of food and nutrition situation and also their temporal trends , a process that began in 1968 and over time has been deepened. The present study aimed to lift the history SISVAN in Brazil and their situation in Minas Gerais and describe the nutritional status of children 0-5 years old accompanied by the system according to the W / A ratio and BMI / I. This was cross sectional study involving all children accompanied by SISVAN attended at primary health care in 2012 in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Of the 469 265 children evaluated and monitored by Web - SISVAN according to the index weight x age, 3.8 % have low and very low weight for age, 87.3 % had normal weight and 8.8 % are with high weight for age. As for the other parameters, 7.5 % are malnourished, 60.3 % normal weight, 17.4% at risk of overweight and 14.8 % overweight. Therefore, we can say that the more nutritional deviation found in the population in 2012 was accompanied by overweight and obesity profile also already found in other studies. Thus, the majority of the population needs intervention through welfare programs and public health, as in tracing the nutritional profile of children of Minas Gerais, the data serves as input for the start of implementation of actions to promote health and baseline for monitoring trends of underweight and overweight in this group. Key words: Food and Nutrition Surveillance, Children, Monitoring.