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Abstract(s)
Introduction: Dietary iber (DF) has been part of human diet since
ever, and its beneits for the human health have been well estab-lished and scientiically conirmed. Among these stand improved
gastrointestinal functions, prevent cholesterol, diabetes or CVD.
Objectives: To study the level of knowledge of people residing in
Portugal about the health effects related to an adequate ingestion
of DF.
Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study carried out
on a non-probabilistic sample of 382 adults residing in Portugal.
The questionnaire included a section about the socio-demographic
characteristics (age, gender, level of education and living environ-
ment) and another about the relation between dietary iber and
possible beneicial effects to treat and prevent diseases. The data
was treated using the SPSS software (V22).
Results: The results allowed concluding that people were dif-
ferently informed about the effects of DF in preventing and/or
treating different diseases, being constipation the most recog-
nized, followed in decreasing order by obesity, bowel cancer,
cholesterol, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and breast can-
cer. The results also showed that signiicant differences were
encountered between age groups for most of the diseases evalu-
ated, but not between genders, levels of education or living en-
vironments.
Conclusions: Generally, it was concluded that the participants in
this study were relatively well informed about the roles of DF in
preventing and/or treating various diseases.
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Keywords
Fibre Health Diabetes Cancer Obesity Constipation
Citation
Guiné RPF, Ferreira M, Correia P, Duarte J. (2016) Perception of health benefits of dietary fibre among the Portuguese population, in 3rd World Congress of Research in Health, Viseu. Atención Primaria, 48(Espec Cong 1), 65.