title: A review on changes in food habits among immigrant women and implications for health.
abstract: The present article covers the range of various factors that impact dietary change among immigrant women, the consequences for health as well as suggestions for an improved intervention. The factors like: busier lifestyle, lack of social relations, higher level of stress, children's preferences, taste, food insecurity, lack of traditional foods and others can result in high fat and sugar diets, low consumption of fruits/vegetables, greater portions, consumption of convenience food and inactivity. These unfavorable dietary changes can in turn cause chronic diseases including cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, type 2 diabetes and others. These negative impacts increase with the time spent in a foreign country, especially in USA and Canada, whereas cases in Europe show minor negative or even positive impacts. For a successful intervention a better understanding of the whole process is needed with a special focus on low-income females due to their double discrimination and their influence towards the health of all family members.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Nutritional Sciences and Physiology, University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Eduard Wallnoefer-Zentrum 1, 6060, Hall in Tirol, Austria.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Popovic-Lipovac
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Strasser
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D004032:Diet / Q000208:ethnology; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D005518:Food Preferences / Q000208:ethnology; D005523:Food Supply / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005638:Fruit; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008603:Mental Health / Q000208:ethnology; D011203:Poverty; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014675:Vegetables; D016387:Women's Health
references.citation: J Am Diet Assoc. 2001 May;101(5):548-53
references.pmid: 11374348
references.citation: Public Health Nutr. 2001 Apr;4(2):163-72
references.pmid: 11299088
references.citation: Indian J Med Res. 2007 Mar;125(3):251-8
references.pmid: 17496354
references.citation: J Hum Nutr Diet. 2001 Dec;14(6):449-56
references.pmid: 11906587
references.citation: Public Health Nutr. 2004 Dec;7(8):999-1008
references.pmid: 15555201
references.citation: Rev Invest Clin. 2004 May-Jun;56(3):282-96
references.pmid: 15612509
references.citation: Ethn Health. 2000 May;5(2):137-50
references.pmid: 10984832
references.citation: Can J Diet Pract Res. 2002 Summer;63(2):72-9
references.pmid: 12084184
references.citation: Am J Epidemiol. 2001 Feb 15;153(4):372-80
references.pmid: 11207155
references.citation: Soc Sci Med. 2004 Oct;59(8):1613-27
references.pmid: 15279920
references.citation: J Intern Med. 2003 Sep;254(3):236-43
references.pmid: 12930232
references.citation: J Natl Cancer Inst. 1993 Nov 17;85(22):1819-27
references.pmid: 8230262
references.citation: Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2003 Jul 12;147(28):1362-6
references.pmid: 12892013
references.citation: JAMA. 2002 Oct 9;288(14):1723-7
references.pmid: 12365955
references.citation: J Health Soc Behav. 2012 Mar;53(1):99-123
references.pmid: 22343940
references.citation: Eur J Clin Nutr. 2000 Aug;54(8):665-70
references.pmid: 10951516
references.citation: Int J Obes (Lond). 2008 Jun;32(6):1008-15
references.pmid: 18317474
references.citation: Nutr Health. 1993;9(2):117-33
references.pmid: 8134025
references.citation: J Hum Nutr Diet. 2003 Oct;16(5):327-37
references.pmid: 14516380
references.citation: Soc Sci Med. 2002 May;54(9):1379-88
references.pmid: 12058854
references.citation: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Dec;16(12):2669-75
references.pmid: 18846044
references.citation: Ethn Health. 2005 Nov;10(4):311-39
references.pmid: 16191730
references.citation: Demography. 2007 Aug;44(3):441-57
references.pmid: 17913005
references.citation: Br J Nutr. 2009 Jul;101 Suppl 2:S86-94
references.pmid: 19594968
references.citation: Appl Physiol Nutr Metab. 2010 Apr;35(2):219-23
references.pmid: 20383236
references.citation: J Epidemiol Community Health. 2004 Jul;58(7):574-82
references.pmid: 15194719
references.citation: J Am Diet Assoc. 1979 Oct;75(4):420-4
references.pmid: 479484
references.citation: Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2000 Sep;79(9):737-43
references.pmid: 10993096
references.citation: Am J Phys Anthropol. 2004 Sep;125(1):90-6
references.pmid: 15293335
references.citation: Br Med Bull. 2004;69:129-41
references.pmid: 15226202
references.citation: J Transcult Nurs. 2005 Jul;16(3):226-35
references.pmid: 15980050
references.citation: Int J Prev Med. 2010 Winter;1(1):19-28
references.pmid: 21677762
references.citation: J Am Diet Assoc. 2000 Aug;100(8):934-40
references.pmid: 10955052
references.citation: Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2011 May 18;8:42
references.pmid: 21592378
references.citation: Soc Sci Med. 2005 Mar;60(6):1359-70
references.pmid: 15626530
references.citation: Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2001 Dec;25(12):1800-5
references.pmid: 11781761
references.citation: Int J Equity Health. 2004 Jun 13;3(1):4
references.pmid: 15193155
references.citation: Obes Res. 2000 Dec;8(9):620-31
references.pmid: 11225710
references.citation: Ethn Dis. 2001 Autumn;11(3):496-518
references.pmid: 11572416
references.citation: Aust N Z J Public Health. 1997 Oct;21(6):606-13
references.pmid: 9470267
references.citation: Can J Diet Pract Res. 2002 Fall;63(3):125-9
references.pmid: 12296978
references.citation: BMC Public Health. 2011 Jun 07;11:441
references.pmid: 21649889
references.citation: Health Rep. 1996 Spring;7(4):33-45, 37-50
references.pmid: 8679956
references.citation: Hum Biol. 2002 Feb;74(1):83-109
references.pmid: 11931581
references.citation: Eur J Clin Nutr. 2000 Sep;54(9):706-14
references.pmid: 11002383
references.citation: Prev Med. 2004 Dec;39(6):1068-76
references.pmid: 15539038
references.citation: J Epidemiol Community Health. 2007 Dec;61 Suppl 2:ii4-10
references.pmid: 18000117
references.citation: Soc Sci Med. 2003 Dec;57(11):2023-34
references.pmid: 14512234
references.citation: Pediatr Clin North Am. 2001 Aug;48(4):955-68, ix
references.pmid: 11494645
references.citation: Demography. 2006 May;43(2):337-60
references.pmid: 16889132
references.citation: Trop Med Int Health. 2002 Jan;7(1):4-10
references.pmid: 11851949
references.citation: Int Migr Rev. 2012;46(1):101-37
references.pmid: 22803186
references.citation: J Nutr. 2007 Apr;137(4):860-70
references.pmid: 17374645
references.citation: J Epidemiol Community Health. 2009 Mar;63(3):253-8
references.pmid: 19074925
references.citation: J Bone Miner Res. 1993 Jul;8(7):861-9
references.pmid: 8352068
references.citation: Cancer Causes Control. 2009 Dec;20(10):1873-9
references.pmid: 19543985
references.citation: Nutr Rev. 2008 Apr;66(4):203-15
references.pmid: 18366534
references.citation: J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2005 Oct;60 Spec No 2:68-75
references.pmid: 16251594
references.citation: World Health Stat Q. 1996;49(2):158-64
references.pmid: 9050196
references.citation: J Nutr. 2007 Sep;137(9):2106-13
references.pmid: 17709450
references.citation: Public Health. 2008 Jun;122(6):625-30
references.pmid: 18294664
references.citation: J Am Diet Assoc. 2000 Jun;100(6):665-73
references.pmid: 10863569
references.citation: Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2002;11 Suppl 3:S562-8
references.pmid: 12492648
references.citation: CMAJ. 2010 May 18;182(8):E301-10
references.pmid: 20403888
references.citation: Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 May;87(5):1107-17
references.pmid: 18469226