Avaliação do consumo alimentar e do estado nutricional de idosos institucionalizados e não institucionalizados da cidade de Paracatu, MG.

Abstract

The growth of the elderly population growing rapidly in developed and emerging countries due to improvements in living conditions. It is estimated that within about two decades, Brazil is the fifth largest number of elderly population. The aging process involves changes in physiological characteristics, functional and body of individuals which reflects directly on their nutritional status. Aimed to evaluate the dietary intake and nutritional status of institutionalized elderly and non-institutionalized Paracatu. Therefore, the food assessment was performed using the report points out of 24 hours and the rest swallowed. Nutritional status was measured by means of anthropometric measurements. The food consumption data were evaluated using the nutrition software Avanutri version 1.0 while the anthropometric data were evaluated according to recommendations in the world. Results: lipids were the only macronutrient that showed consumption below the recommendations, however all the fat soluble vitamins like most micronutrients were little consumed. Anthropometric data reflect most inadequate for the institutionalized elderly. Concluded that the inadequate food consumption reflects poor nutritional status in this framework can be reversed by actions to promote health. In Brazil we have a structured data about the nutritional status of elderly and not cut-off points for analysis.