Download or read book Dietary Risk Factors and Acculturation Among Mexican Migrant (Southwest United States) and Non-migrant (Northwest Mexico) Women written by Maria Isabel Ortega and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to identify some of the social, economic, demographic, and cultural characteristics related to food behavior that Mexican Americans experience in the border regions of Mexico and the United States. Special emphasis was placed on how the process of acculturation shapes the lifestyle and diet of these population groups, and which are the consequences regarding dietary risk factors and obesity. This was a cross-sectional study with a purposive site and systematic selection of units of study. The methods included face to face interviews with 150 migrant Mexican women (Southwest-U.S.) and 150 non-migrant Mexican women (Northwest-Mexico). Interviews consisted of a questionnaire with the following segments: Two non-consecutive 24-hour recalls, a semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire, anthropometry, acculturation, dietary change and food preparation, avoidance of fat, sweets and sodium, lifestyle characteristics (smoking, physical activity), stress, eating out patterns, and food purchasing. Results from multivariate analysis showed that consumption of calories from saturated fat and BMI seem to be significantly higher (p $