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Nutrition, physical activity and health status in Middle and East European countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2007

H.-J. Franz Zunft ,
Gottfried Ulbricht ,
Jan Pokorný ,
Wlodzimierz Sekula ,
Lucjan Szponar  and
J.-Algis Abaravicius
H.-J. Franz Zunft*
Affiliation:
German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany
Gottfried Ulbricht
Affiliation:
German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany
Jan Pokorný
Affiliation:
Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czechia
Wlodzimierz Sekula
Affiliation:
National Food and Nutrition Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Lucjan Szponar
Affiliation:
National Food and Nutrition Institute, Warsaw, Poland
J.-Algis Abaravicius
Affiliation:
Vilnius University, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania
*
*Corresponding author: Email: zunft@www.dife.de
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Abstract

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In the Middle- and East-European countries the political, economic and social situation changed fundamentally in 1989 and 1990. These alterations are reflected in markers of dietary intake, physical activity and health with a trend similar in Czechia, East Germany, Lithuania and Poland. Thus, the previous increase in energy consumption stopped and was followed by a decline. The increasing preference for a lower level of activity is demonstrated by the number of private cars clearly accelerating its rate of growth after the change. Life expectancy had been increasing during the eighties only slightly. After the change the yearly increase became higher than before. The rate difference is higher in men than in women. Beginning from 1991 the CVD mortality decreased considerably.

Keywords

Energy consumptionNutrient intakePhysical activityLife expectancyMiddle and Eastern Europe
Type
Research Article
Information
Public Health Nutrition , Volume 2 , Supplement 3a , March 1999 , pp. 437 - 441
Copyright
Copyright © CABI Publishing 1999

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