ROMANIAN FOOD CONSUMPTION AND ITS EFFECTS ON POPULATION'S HEALTH CONDITION

• Main Authors: Mihaela CONSTANDACHE, Elena CONDREA, Anca - Cristina STANCIU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Romanian Foundation for Business Intelligence 2014-04-01
• Series: SEA: Practical Application of Science
• Subjects: Food consumption; Eating behavior; Population health
• Online Access: http://seaopenresearch.eu/Journals/articles/SPAS_3_17.pdf

Public health is a top priority for the European Union. The main factor in ensuring population health is food consumption and in particular food quality. The present paper aims at analyzing Romanian population food consumption during the 1990-2012 periods, its evolution in time; it identifies its main features and their effects on population health. Amid the economic crisis the purchasing power of population is impaired leading to insufficient consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables and a low intake of vitamins, calcium, phosphorous and iron (especially in children, women and elderly people), which could be an important risk factor in the development of chronic diseases.