“We Never Ate Like That, Not Fast Food, or Junk Foods”: Accounts of Changing Maternal Diet in a Tourist Community in Rural Costa Rica

The term fast food or as referred as the junk food is the food which can be served immediately for eating. Sausages, hamburgers and pizzas come under the category of fast food or the junk food. It can be otherwise said that junk food and fast food are used as synonyms. These junk foods are inherent with a high level of energy with high content of sugar, salt and fat. On the contrary, these types of food have the characteristics of low nutritious level with low level of protein, low level of vitamin, low fibre content as well as low level of minerals. The definition for junk food had been given as the foods which are prepared earlier then served or the ones which are prepared immediately for serving. In this context, the current research study has been done to analyse the adolescent’s attitude towards the junk foods. The study has been carried out the junk food consumers in Tiruvannamalai. The respondents of the study are selected through convenience sampling and the sample size is fixed at 100. Questionnaire is the instrument used to collect the information for the study. The collected data is put into analysis through the technique of mean score. The result of the study shows that most of adolescents like the taste of junk food.

Download Full-text

Retrospective Reports of Dream Characteristics and Preferences for Organic vs Junk Foods

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.101.1.335-338 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 101 (1) ◽

pp. 335-338 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jerry Kroth ◽

Ashleigh Briggs ◽

Michelle Cummings ◽

Gerardo Rodriguez ◽

Eva Martin

Keyword(s):

Graduate Students ◽

Fast Food ◽

Organic Food ◽

Food Preferences ◽

Eating Attitudes ◽

Potato Chips ◽

High Intake ◽

Retrospective Reports ◽

Junk Foods

The authors investigated correlations between retrospective dream characteristics, food preferences, and eating attitudes. Graduate students (7 men, 42 women) at Santa Clara University were administered the MEGA food scale and the KJP Dream Inventory. High intake of organic food was positively correlated with reports of multiple dream factors. Conversely, high scores on preferences for fast food, potato chips, and carbohydrates were negatively correlated with several factors. Findings are discussed in terms of the hypothesis that certain foods may influence dreaming.

Download Full-text

The salt content of products from popular fast-food chains in Costa Rica

Appetite ◽

10.1016/j.appet.2014.08.027 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 83 ◽

pp. 173-177 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Katrina Heredia-Blonval ◽

Adriana Blanco-Metzler ◽

Marielos Montero-Campos ◽

Elizabeth K. Dunford

Keyword(s):

Costa Rica ◽

Fast Food ◽

Salt Content ◽

Food Chains

Download Full-text

Maternal diet in rural Costa Rica. Identifying cultural norms and changing trends

Appetite ◽

10.1016/j.appet.2010.11.176 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 56 (2) ◽

pp. 523

Author(s):

Allison Cantor

Keyword(s):

Costa Rica ◽

Maternal Diet ◽

Cultural Norms ◽

Changing Trends

Download Full-text

A Traditional Costa Rican Adolescents' Diet Score Is a Valid Tool to Capture Diet Quality and Identify Sociodemographic Groups With Suboptimal Diet

Frontiers in Public Health ◽

10.3389/fpubh.2021.708956 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

Author(s):

Rafael Monge-Rojas ◽

June O'Neill ◽

Michelle Lee-Bravatti ◽

Josiemer Mattei

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Costa Rica ◽

Diet Quality ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Fast Food ◽

Processed Meat ◽

Low Socioeconomic ◽

Traditional Diet ◽

Diet Score

Traditional diet indices may capture diet quality according to local food culture. Higher adherence to traditional diet scores may help prevent disease, yet evidence in adolescents is limited. This cross-sectional study aimed to develop and validate a Traditional Costa Rica Adolescents Diet Score (TCRAD) and determine its association with sociodemographic characteristics, under the hypothesis that girls, adolescents from rural areas, and with low socioeconomic status, have a more traditional healthy diet. A total of 804 urban and rural adolescents (13–18 years old) participated in the study. The TCRAD showed adequate internal validity as shown by significant associations with intake of 14 traditional foods and nutrients (legumes, vegetables, fruits, oils, dairy, and corn tortilla scored as healthy; and white rice, red/processed meat, solid fats, desserts/pastries, sugar-sweetened beverages, snacks, fast food, and bread and cookies scored as unhealthy). A high TCRAD score, indicative of a healthier and more traditional diet, was observed among adolescents in the low socioeconomic group vs. medium or high socioeconomic categories (42.9, 41.2, and 38.2%, respectively, p < 0.05), adolescents living in rural areas vs. urban (47.6 vs. 34.2%, p < 0.05), and among boys vs. girls (46.9 vs. 37.5%, p < 0.05). The TCRAD score is a valid tool to capture diet quality of adolescents in Costa Rica and could be used to measure association of diet with disease outcomes in this and similar populations. Public health nutrition programs in Costa Rica should focus on improving intake of foods and nutrients, and prioritize girls, adolescents in urban areas, and adolescents with high socioeconomic status.

Download Full-text

Fast Food Consumption among Teenagers Aged Between (13 To 25) Years Old and Their Effect on Health in Derna-Libya

Journal of Regenerative Biology and Medicine ◽

10.37191/mapsci-2582-385x-1(1)-005 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Salwa Muftah Eljamay

Keyword(s):

Food Consumption ◽

Fast Food ◽

Soft Drink ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Junk Food ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Food Pattern ◽

Fast Food Consumption ◽

Main Meal ◽

Junk Foods

Background: Junk foods are rich in calories, salt and fats. Excess consumption of junk foods would lead rise to wide variety of health disorders. Objective: the purpose of this study is to find out about the fast food consumption of adolescent in age between 13-25 years old in Derna city and their effect on health Methods: the sample of this research included 100 adolescents from both sexes, a descriptive cross-sectional study of teenagers was conducted. The questionnaire was divided into two part: first part related to socio-demographic information and part two related to junk food pattern and inﬂuencing factors of junk food consumption and their effect on health. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 24. A value of P < 0.05 was interpreted as statistically significant. Results: The findings revealed that more girls (67.0%) consumed fast food than boys and approximately half (49.0%) of Participants were consumed fast food as an alternative to main meal and more than half of participants (63.0%) were consume soft drink every day, furthermore greater proportion of participants (42.0%) had urinary tract infection and that may related to chips and soft drink were the most attractive food items among Participants. Conclusion: adolescent consumed a greater amount of junk food which led to a majority of ill effects later on. It is recommended that the schools and community conduct and implement awareness programmers on fast food consumption and its ill effects.

Download Full-text

Identification of Maize Rayado Fino Virus by Immunoelectron Microscopy

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100119879 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

pp. 636-637

Author(s):

O. E. Bradfute

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Zea Mays ◽

Costa Rica ◽

Severe Disease ◽

Rabbit Serum ◽

Normal Rabbit Serum ◽

Virus Particles ◽

Far North ◽

Maize Rayado Fino Virus ◽

Antibody Coating

Maize rayado fino virus (MRFV) causes a severe disease of corn (Zea mays) in many locations throughout the neotropics and as far north as southern U.S. MRFV particles detected by direct electron microscopy of negatively stained sap from infected leaves are not necessarily distinguishable from many other small isometric viruses infecting plants (Fig. 1).Immunosorbent trapping of virus particles on antibody-coated grids and the antibody coating or decoration of trapped virus particles, was used to confirm the identification of MRFV. Antiserum to MRFV was supplied by R. Gamez (Centro de Investigacion en Biologia Celular y Molecular, Universidad de Costa Rica, Ciudad Universitaria, Costa Rica).Virus particles, appearing as a continuous lawn, were trapped on grids coated with MRFV antiserum (Fig. 2-4). In contrast, virus particles were infrequently found on grids not exposed to antiserum or grids coated with normal rabbit serum (similar to Fig. 1). In Fig. 3, the appearance of the virus particles (isometric morphology, 30 nm diameter, stain penetration of some particles, and morphological subunits in other particles) is characteristic of negatively stained MRFV particles. Decoration or coating of these particles with MRFV antiserum confirms their identification as MRFV (Fig. 4).

Download Full-text