A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents

Unhealthy diets are recognized as a major risk factor for many diseases. The decrease in costs of industrialized products, as well as the possible misinformation about a healthy diet, has led to new behaviors in the dietary patterns of the pediatric population. The costs of dietary patterns have not...

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Autores principales:	Patricia Clark, Carlos F. Mendoza-Gutiérrez, Diana Montiel-Ojeda, Edgar Denova-Gutiérrez, Desirée López-González, Laura Moreno-Altamirano, Alfonso Reyes
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	cost-analysis dietary patterns cost-benefit analysis economic evaluation pediatric children Nutrition. Foods and food supply TX341-641
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:3df9ce4133134c06b37689d8e56efdda2021-11-25T18:34:49ZA Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents10.3390/nu131138712072-6643https://doaj.org/article/3df9ce4133134c06b37689d8e56efdda2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/11/3871https://doaj.org/toc/2072-6643Unhealthy diets are recognized as a major risk factor for many diseases. The decrease in costs of industrialized products, as well as the possible misinformation about a healthy diet, has led to new behaviors in the dietary patterns of the pediatric population. The costs of dietary patterns have not been estimated in our population, so the objective of this study was to determine the cost associated with dietary patterns in Mexican children and adolescents, hypothesizing that a healthy diet is not necessarily more economically expensive. This study analyzed data from a population-based cross-sectional study of healthy children and adolescents in Mexico City. Data were collected from a food frequency questionnaire and the meal cost of habitual food shopping. Eating patterns were obtained by using principal component analysis. A micro-costing technique was performed to obtain the direct costs of each pattern. When comparing the healthy pattern with the transition and non-healthy patterns, it was observed that there were no statistically significant differences between the dietary patterns (<i>p</i> = 0.8293). The cost of the healthy pattern only takes up 16.6% of the total biweekly income of a salaried Mexican. In this study, no differences were observed between the costs of a healthy and a less healthy diet.Patricia ClarkCarlos F. Mendoza-GutiérrezDiana Montiel-OjedaEdgar Denova-GutiérrezDesirée López-GonzálezLaura Moreno-AltamiranoAlfonso ReyesMDPI AGarticlecost-analysisdietary patternscost-benefit analysiseconomic evaluationpediatricchildrenNutrition. Foods and food supplyTX341-641ENNutrients, Vol 13, Iss 3871, p 3871 (2021)
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spellingShingle	cost-analysis dietary patterns cost-benefit analysis economic evaluation pediatric children Nutrition. Foods and food supply TX341-641 Patricia Clark Carlos F. Mendoza-Gutiérrez Diana Montiel-Ojeda Edgar Denova-Gutiérrez Desirée López-González Laura Moreno-Altamirano Alfonso Reyes A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents
description	Unhealthy diets are recognized as a major risk factor for many diseases. The decrease in costs of industrialized products, as well as the possible misinformation about a healthy diet, has led to new behaviors in the dietary patterns of the pediatric population. The costs of dietary patterns have not been estimated in our population, so the objective of this study was to determine the cost associated with dietary patterns in Mexican children and adolescents, hypothesizing that a healthy diet is not necessarily more economically expensive. This study analyzed data from a population-based cross-sectional study of healthy children and adolescents in Mexico City. Data were collected from a food frequency questionnaire and the meal cost of habitual food shopping. Eating patterns were obtained by using principal component analysis. A micro-costing technique was performed to obtain the direct costs of each pattern. When comparing the healthy pattern with the transition and non-healthy patterns, it was observed that there were no statistically significant differences between the dietary patterns (<i>p</i> = 0.8293). The cost of the healthy pattern only takes up 16.6% of the total biweekly income of a salaried Mexican. In this study, no differences were observed between the costs of a healthy and a less healthy diet.
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author	Patricia Clark Carlos F. Mendoza-Gutiérrez Diana Montiel-Ojeda Edgar Denova-Gutiérrez Desirée López-González Laura Moreno-Altamirano Alfonso Reyes
author_facet	Patricia Clark Carlos F. Mendoza-Gutiérrez Diana Montiel-Ojeda Edgar Denova-Gutiérrez Desirée López-González Laura Moreno-Altamirano Alfonso Reyes
author_sort	Patricia Clark
title	A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents
title_short	A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents
title_full	A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents
title_fullStr	A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents
title_full_unstemmed	A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents
title_sort	healthy diet is not more expensive than less healthy options: cost-analysis of different dietary patterns in mexican children and adolescents
publisher	MDPI AG
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/3df9ce4133134c06b37689d8e56efdda
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A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents

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