Insegurança alimentar e aspectos da alimentação de sujeitos com excesso de peso de uma unidade de saúde em um município de pequeno porte.

Abstract

The objective was to investigate among adults with obesity and overweight to assess their social, health, food (in)security and food security. It was a descriptive cross-sectional study with an intentional sample with users of a health unit in the city of Nova Floresta, Paraíba. Data collection took place in January 2020 with a team of trained interviewers. This work partially analyzes the data from the database of a more comprehensive survey with the health service. The collection instrument was a structured questionnaire. Social, economic and demographic information were analyzed in this work; food security assessment through the Brazilian Food Insecurity Scale; Consumption pattern; anthropometric assessment with Body Mass Index. Data were digitized using the PSPP program (GNU) and simple descriptive statistics were performed. It is observed that most of the interviewees were female, with their own house paid off, knowing how to read and write easily and without a fixed income. Women preparing meals, including the person interviewed, use health as a criterion when talking about food; while the components of a healthy diet are statements about the presence of fruits, vegetables, beans and beans and similar in the diet. During the week, most respondents eat at home and with other people, sitting at the table; skipping meals with the aim of losing weight, at the end of the day they think they ate enough. The foods that are most consumed every day or twice a week are staple foods of Brazilian food culture (rice, beans, and/or margarine to prepare food, bread, cake, crackers, fruits, juices (fruit and/or pulp) and raw vegetables). It is also observed that the interviewees report consuming ultra-processed and processed foods less frequently.