{"title":"Evaluation of the Aral Region Adolescent Nutrition with the FFQ_KZ Questionnaire.","authors":"Ainur Zinalieva, Akmaral Baspakova, Gulzhan Tulegenova, Anara Abitova, Aigul Sartayeva","doi":"10.1080/03670244.2024.2428268","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The rapid drop in the Aral Sea's level since the 1960s has resulted in an environmental disaster and major shifts in quality of life. The research aims to determine the eating habits of adolescents from 11 to 17 years old living in the Aral Sea Basin by using an FFQ questionnaire. The respondents' diets were found to be unbalanced due to a shortage of proteins, polyunsaturated fatty acids, and complex carbohydrates, with a predominance of easily digestible carbohydrates and plant proteins. The study highlights the need for educational efforts to increase awareness of the consequences of poor nutrition.</p>","PeriodicalId":11511,"journal":{"name":"Ecology of Food and Nutrition","volume":" ","pages":"669-682"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ecology of Food and Nutrition","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2024.2428268","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2024/11/14 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"NUTRITION & DIETETICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The rapid drop in the Aral Sea's level since the 1960s has resulted in an environmental disaster and major shifts in quality of life. The research aims to determine the eating habits of adolescents from 11 to 17 years old living in the Aral Sea Basin by using an FFQ questionnaire. The respondents' diets were found to be unbalanced due to a shortage of proteins, polyunsaturated fatty acids, and complex carbohydrates, with a predominance of easily digestible carbohydrates and plant proteins. The study highlights the need for educational efforts to increase awareness of the consequences of poor nutrition.
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Ecology of Food and Nutrition is an international journal of food and nutrition in the broadest sense. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of food and nutrition -- ecological, biological, and cultural. Ecology of Food and Nutrition strives to become a forum for disseminating scholarly information on the holistic and cross-cultural dimensions of the study of food and nutrition. It emphasizes foods and food systems not only in terms of their utilization to satisfy human nutritional needs and health, but also to promote and contest social and cultural identity. The content scope is thus wide -- articles may focus on the relationship between food and nutrition, food taboos and preferences, ecology and political economy of food, the evolution of human nutrition, changes in food habits, food technology and marketing, food and identity, and food sustainability. Additionally, articles focusing on the application of theories and methods to address contemporary food and nutrition problems are encouraged. Questions of the relationship between food/nutrition and culture are as germane to the journal as analyses of the interactions among nutrition and environment, infection and human health.