title: Anthropology and style of life in middle age women.
abstract: The anthropometric pattern, demographics data, lifestyle factors and several aspects of morbidity were analyzed for 400 Cuban women ages 40-60 years. More than 85% of women were obese, being these in direct association with morphology typically androgens, more evident in the postmenopausal women. In these women observed less body mass index and overweight, in an equivalent way between pre and postmenopausal women. A moderate consumption of rice, was evidenced, pastas and vegetables, few candies and fatty, what points to or quite acceptable knowledge of the harmful effect of some foods, to weigh that the shadowy use of saturated fats and not saturated it was the most frequent thing. By multifactor approach it is possible to make relation between nutritional patterns, morphology and climacteric symptoms; Cuban women present a different frequencies from an other literature showing the risk of generalist this studies and health's actions.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Anthropology, Department of Biology, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Consuelo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Prado Martinez
authors.forename: María Elena
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Diaz
authors.forename: Emilia María
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Toledo
authors.forename: María Margarita
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Carmenate
authors.forename: Iraida
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Raisa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Moreno
authors.forename: Vilma
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Moreno
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003462:Cuba / Q000208:ethnology; D003710:Demography; D004032:Diet; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008593:Menopause / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000502:physiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009017:Morbidity; D009752:Nutritional Status