title: Community nutrition in Spain: advances and drawbacks.
abstract: Scientific evidence has placed community nutrition among the front-line strategies in health promotion. Community nutrition in different regions of Spain has developed at an unequal pace. Early initiatives in the mid 1980s provided good-quality population data and established a basis for nutrition surveillance including individual body measurements, dietary intake data, information on physical activity, and biomarkers. The Nutrition and Physical Activity for Obesity Prevention Strategy (NAOS) reinforces community nutrition action in Spain. Presented here is an overview of developments in community nutrition in Spain in recent years as well as potential trends under the scope of the NAOS.
authors.affiliation: Community Nutrition Unit, Bilbao Department of Public Health and Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Navarra Pamplona, Spain. jaranceta@unav.es
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aranceta
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lobo
authors.forename: Pilar
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Viedma
authors.forename: Gemma
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Salvador-Castell
authors.forename: Emilio Martínez
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: de Victoria
authors.forename: Rosa M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Ortega
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bello
authors.forename: Josep A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Tur-Marí
mesh_terms: D004032:Diet / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D006293:Health Promotion; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009752:Nutritional Status / Q000502:physiology*; D009765:Obesity / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D011640:Public Policy; D013030:Spain