Food consumption pattern and nutritional status in venezuelan vegetarian athletes

Abstract

It exists unlimited sorts of diets and it may cause confusion among people. In this sense, first, few patterns of food consumption have been studied in detail, especially, those developed from western countries defined as “western diet”; second, vegetarian eating habits and third, semi-vegetarian diets known as “prudent diet”. These diets are characterized by the predominance of plant’s products and while animal products were not considered. Finally, “Mediterranean diet” has been assumed by 3 to 9 percent of the European and North American population.1