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0353/2019 - Food diversity of indigenous childrentwo municipalities of the Brazilian Western Amazon.
Diversidade alimentar de crianças indígenas de dois municípios da Amazônia Ocidental Brasileira.

Author:

• Vanizia Barbosa da Silva Maciel - Maciel, V.B.S - <enfer_van@yahoo.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1166-7551

Co-author(s):

• Kelly Pereira Coca - Coca, K.P - <kcoca@unifesp.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3604-852X
• Lucíola Sant’Anna de Castro - Castro, L.S - <lucastro@unifesp.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9729-8306
• Ana Cristina Freitas de Vilhena Abrão - Vilhena, A.C.F - <ana.abrao@unifesp.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6249-2467


Abstract:

The aim was to explore the feeding practices of indigenous childrenzero to two years old, living in the municipalities of Cruzeiro do Sul and Mâncio Lima in Acre. A cross-sectional study was conducted with indigenous children of the Katukina (Cruzeiro do Sul), Nukini, Nawa and Poyanawa (Mâncio Lima) ethnicities in October 2013. A structured questionnaire was used on the food consumption of the day before the collection, based on the food indicators proposed by the Ministry of Health. A total of 94 children (50% of Katukina ethnicity, 27% Poyanawa, 13% Nukini and 10% of Nawa) were studied. Children under 6 months of age, although the majority received breast milk, 42.1% consumed water, 31.6% non-maternal milk and 15.8% condensed soup. In the range of 6 to 12 months and 13 to 23 months age groups, high consumption of ultraprocessed foods was identified by the majority infants (52.6% and 28.6% respectively), while the consumption of complementary food was insufficient (33% of fruit and 25% of salt food in the range 6 to 13 months and 41.2% of fruits and 19.6% of salt food in the range of 13 to 23 months). The food profile of the indigenous children was inadequate for their, reflecting a worrying situation in the children’s health of this population.

Keywords:

Infant Nutrition; Feeding Behavior; Indigenous Population; Child Health; Indians South American

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Maciel, V.B.S, Coca, K.P, Castro, L.S, Vilhena, A.C.F. Food diversity of indigenous childrentwo municipalities of the Brazilian Western Amazon.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2019/Nov). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/food-diversity-of-indigenous-childrentwo-municipalities-of-the-brazilian-western-amazon/17427?id=17427



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