[Intra-household distribution of energy and macronutrients in Colombian households].

Introduction: Knowing the intra-household distribution of dietary intake is useful to establish food policy.

Objective: To estimate the intra-household distribution of energy and macronutrients by kinship in Colombian households.

Material And Methods: We applied two recalls of dietary intake for the last 24 hours (R24H) in 1,505 subjects living in 432 households.

[Household food security: comparing an alternative method to a classical one].

Objective: Establishing the performance of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) household food security scale (EPSA) which is being used in Latin-America and the Caribbean, compared to a traditionally-used method (food insecurity scale) which has led to establishing food security at individual and population level. The performance of the household food security scale (EPSA) was evaluated during 2007-2008 and compared to that of the food insecurity (FI) scale based on the energy usually consumed.

Methods: Two hundred and eleven household participated in the study.

[Evaluation of the impact of a community intervention on the consumption of fruits and vegetables in Colombia].

Objective: To evaluate the impact of an alimentary intervention on the frequency of consumption of fruits and vegetables (FV) in the municipality of Girón, Santander, Colombia.

Material And Methods: A community intervention was carried out over a ten-month period, where 66 families who use fourteen community homes (HC) received an alimentary intervention based on educational strategies. Seventy-three families in twelve HC served as a control group.

Prevalence and impact of cardiovascular risk factors in Bucaramanga, Colombia: results from the Countrywide Integrated Noncommunicable Disease Intervention Programme (CINDI/CARMEN) baseline survey.

Background: Although cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death in the region, there are few data on the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in Latin American. We studied the distribution and impact of cardiovascular risk factors in Bucaramanga, Colombia.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study in a random sample of 2989 subjects 15-64 years old.

[Intake of leguminous in the Department of Santander, Colombia, 2000-2003].

With the objective of describing the participation and quantity (g) in the intake of leguminous in two geographical areas (metropolitan and rural), three surveys were re-analyzed, in them 571 subjects (148 scholars and 443 mothers) described their intake by the 24-hour dietary recall method. For the above mentioned, descriptive measures and confidence intervals were calculated with a reliability of 95% (IC 95%), the comparison of the intake among groups was carried out by t test and analysis of variance. 36.