Characterization of street food consumption in palermo: possible effects on health

biomed - Buscemi Silvio , Barile Annamaria , Maniaci Vincenza , Batsis , Mattina Alessandro , Verga , Verga Salvatore

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Street Food (SF) consists of out-of-home food consumption and has old, historical roots with complex social-economic and cultural implications. Despite the emergence of modern fast food, traditional SF persists worldwide, but the relationship of SF consumption with overall health, well-being, and obesity is unknown. Methods This is an observational, cross-sectional study. The study was performed in Palermo, the largest town of Sicily, Italy. Two groups were identified: consumers of SF (n = 687) and conventional restaurant food (RES) consumers (n = 315). Study subjects answered a questionnaire concerning their health conditions, nutritional preferences, frequency of consumption of SF and a score relative to SF consumption ranging from 0 to 20 was calculated. Results Body mass index (BMI, kg/m 2 ) was significantly and independently correlated with the score of street food consumption (r = 0,103; p < 0.002). The prevalence of different diseases, including hypertension and type 2 diabetes, and the use of medications did not differ between the two groups. Milza (a sandwich stuffed with thin slice of bovine spleen and lung) consumers had a significantly higher prevalence of hypertension (12.2% vs 6.2% in non consumers; p < 0.005) and in this subgroup the use of anti-hypertensive drugs was inversely correlated with the frequency of milza consumption (r = 0.11; P = 0.010). Conclusions This study suggests that SF consumption in Palermo is associated with a higher BMI and higher prevalence of hypertension in milza consumers. Further studies should evaluate whether frequent SF consumers have unfavourable metabolic and cardiovascular profile.

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Publié le	01 janvier 2011
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Buscemiet al.Nutrition Journal2011,10:119 http://www.nutritionj.com/content/10/1/119

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Characterization of street food consumption in Palermo: possible effects on health 1* 1 1 2,3 1 1 Silvio Buscemi , Annamaria Barile , Vincenza Maniaci , John A Batsis , Alessandro Mattina and Salvatore Verga

Abstract Background:Street Food (SF) consists of outofhome food consumption and has old, historical roots with complex socialeconomic and cultural implications. Despite the emergence of modern fast food, traditional SF persists worldwide, but the relationship of SF consumption with overall health, wellbeing, and obesity is unknown. Methods:This is an observational, crosssectional study. The study was performed in Palermo, the largest town of Sicily, Italy. Two groups were identified: consumers of SF (n = 687) and conventional restaurant food (RES) consumers (n = 315). Study subjects answered a questionnaire concerning their health conditions, nutritional preferences, frequency of consumption of SF and a score relative to SF consumption ranging from 0 to 20 was calculated. 2 Results:Body mass index (BMI, kg/m ) was significantly and independently correlated with the score of street food consumption (r = 0,103; p < 0.002). The prevalence of different diseases, including hypertension and type 2 diabetes, and the use of medications did not differ between the two groups. Milza (a sandwich stuffed with thin slice of bovine spleen and lung) consumers had a significantly higher prevalence of hypertension (12.2% vs 6.2% in non consumers; p < 0.005) and in this subgroup the use of antihypertensive drugs was inversely correlated with the frequency of milza consumption (r = 0.11; P = 0.010). Conclusions:This study suggests that SF consumption in Palermo is associated with a higher BMI and higher prevalence of hypertension in milza consumers. Further studies should evaluate whether frequent SF consumers have unfavourable metabolic and cardiovascular profile.

Introduction The increasing prevalence of obesity [1] and other cardio vascular risk factors [2] have been partially attributed to changing nutritional habits and reduced level of regular physical activity. The obesity epidemic is also influenced by social network phenomena characterized by beha vioural persontoperson interactions [3]. Fast food con sumption, defined as inexpensive food, sold by means of selfservice systems or carryout eating locales without waiter service [4], has been implicated as one potential reason for this epidemic [5,6]. It is energy dense, poor in nutritional and fibre content, high in glycemic load and often associated with large portion sizes [4,7]. Closely linked to fast food is another version of outof home food consumption termedStreet Food(SF). This

* Correspondence: silbus@tin.it 1 Department of Medicina Interna e Specialistica (DIMIS), Faculty of Medicine University of Palermo (Italy)  Policlinico“P.Giaccone”, via del vespro, 129  I 90127 Palermo, Italy Full list of author information is available at the end of the article

entity has old, historical roots with complex social economic and cultural implications [8]. Street food is present even in less developed countries, and has occa sionally been considered to be the hallmark of the early development of fast food [9,10]. It is quickly available and consumed, and generally affordable to large parts of the population. Despite the emergence of modern fast food, traditional street food persists worldwide, especially in Europe and in Mediterranean countries [Maniaci V. Il cibo di strada e la comunità palermitana: indagine circa gli aspetti nutrizio nali. University of Palermo, degree thesis for dietician, 2009]. In a broad sense, street food has often been described as having some elements of the Mediterranean Diet [11,12]. Few studies exist that consider the health and psychological effects of street food consumption in habi tual consumers [1326]. To our knowledge, no study has ever considered the relationship of street food consump tion in the western world with overall health, wellbeing,

© 2011 Buscemi et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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