Percepções quanto a transição nutricional nas populações rural e urbana do município de Santiago – RS: um estudo a partir das práticas alimentares

Abstract

The choice, forms of preparation and consumption of food, as well as society, are constantly changing. To the process of modifying eating behaviors is assigned the name of dietary transition. In view of that food transition, although at different intensities is present in practically all societies, the aim of this study was to evaluatethe feeding practices in relation to the lifestyle of rural and urban residents in the municipality of Santiago - RS . For the research were interviewed 87 residents of the urbana area and 9 inhabitants of the rural area of the study area, through a socioeconomic questionnaire prepared by the authors, along with the questionnaire marcadores do consume alimentar, prepared by Sistema de Vigilância Alimentar Nutricional. The interviews were carried out in the unidades de Estratégia de Saúde da Família (ESF) of the municipality, under the written authorization by each respondent, recorded in signing the document Termo de Consentimento Livre e esclarecido. The research identified a rising food transition framework towards the consumption of manufactured for rural and stable for the urban area. It also appeared gradual inclusion of consumption of in-kind food in urban areas and decreased con-consumption of these foods in rural areas. However, it was possible to identify different fases of dietary transition, with a consumption acceleration phase of manufactured there ments and reduction in-natura in rural areas concurrently to a stability phase in the consumption of processed and increased consumer products in-kind in the urban environment.