Abstract
Objective: It has been aimed to evaluate the differences occurred between 1961 and 2011 regarding the amounts of energy–macronutrients per capita in Turkey. Methods: Energy and macronutrient data (fat and protein) per capita between 1961 and 2011 for Turkey was downloaded from FAOSTAT data base as kg/year and then converted into g/day. The amount of carbohydrate per capita (g/day) was calculated. The changes in daily energy and macronutrient per capita were calculated according to each 10 years period (1961-1970, 1971-1980, 1981-1990, 1991-2000, 2001-2011) by taking the mean value for each period. Results: It was found out that there had been a 19.5% increase in the daily energy amount per capita in Turkey from 1961 to 2011. It was determined that the biggest increase in the amount of daily fat per capita was between 2001 and 2011 (11.5% increase, 107.2±7.90 g/day) and the amount of daily fat per capita increased 50.5% in total from 1961 to 2011. The amount of protein per capita increased around 10.6% between 1961 and 2011. the amount of carbohydrate per capita increased 11.3% between 1961 and 2011. It was found out that there was an increase in the amounts of energy and macronutrients per capita in Turkey from 1961 to 2011. Conclusion: That result is seemed to be an indicator for the increase in the food supply according to the development level of the country.
Highlights
Turkey is a big Middle Eastern country with its 769.604 km2 surface area and located on South Eastern Europe and South Western Asia
As the causes for deaths in Turkey (2013), cardiovascular diseases came first with 39.8% and 38.8% of them were caused by ischemic cardiac diseases, 25.2% of them were caused by cerebrovascular diseases, 17.7% of them were caused by other cardiac diseases and 12.8% of them were caused by hypertensive diseases [10]
Turkish Adult Risk Factor Survey (TEKHARF) is one of the biggest monitoring studies to provide information regarding the frequency of hypertension in Turkey and when we look at its 1991 data we saw that hypertension prevalence in Turkey was 33.7% [11]
Summary
Turkey is a big Middle Eastern country with its 769.604 km surface area and located on South Eastern Europe and South Western Asia. According to the “Turkish Nutrition and Health Survey (TBSA)-2010” conducted by Ministry of Health Public Health Agency of Turkey, the prevalence of obesity among adult individuals in Turkey was found out as 20.5% among males and 41.0% among females [4]. As the result of the Monitoring of Growth Among School Age Children (6 – 10 years) in Turkey Project Survey (TOÇBİ) that was conducted in 2011 by Ministry of Health Public Health Agency of Turkey, it was found out that among 12301 children, 6.5% of them were obese (boys: 7.5%, girls: 5.4%), 14.3% of them were overweight The hypertension prevalence in general population aged over 18 years was found as 30.3% (Males: 28.4%; females: 32.3%) with the latest Patent Study 2 [13]. Rachitics, vitamin deficiency, iodine deficiency and tooth decay are common health problems among children between 0 and 5 years of age, school age children and adolescents in Turkey [5]
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