Transição nutricional

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For a critic to the nutritional transition

Maria do Socorro Quirino Escoda 1

1 Departamento de
Nutrição e Núcleo de
Estudos em Saúde Coletiva da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte.
Campus da Saúde.
Av. General Cordeiro de Farias s/n, Petrópolis,
59150-000, Natal RN. [e-mail] Abstract I discuss in this article the characteristics of the nutritional transition. For that, I use the data of nutritional researches of the population, concepts and analytic categories. I make a correlation between these characteristics and the specificities of our development process. Then, I question: 1) The sense of this transition, which comes from a stage initially signed by high prevalence of deficits malnutrition, on gravity forms. 2) If the breakpoint used to reckon the gravity malnutrition occurrences, located under the percentile 3 of the international standard classification – of the National
Center of Health Statistics (NCHS) –, is not to choose gravity as hierarchy of the nutritional attention. 3) If this procedure does not mask the real extension of the moderate and light forms of malnutrition deficits. 4) If the selected criterion does not reproduce iniquity in the malnutrition population. 5) If this transition is moving in the direction of improving, optimizing the frame of the Brazilian nutritional situation or making it worst, more complex.
Key words Nutritional transition, Gravity,
Chronicity, Complexity

Resumo Discuto neste artigo as características da transição nutricional. Utilizo dados dos estudos nutricionais de população, conceitos e categorias analíticas. Correlaciono essas características com as especificidades do nosso processo de desenvolvimento. Questiono o sentido dessa transição que migrou: 1) De um perfil inicialmente marcado pela alta prevalência da má nutrição por déficits, nas formas graves de desnutrição energético-protéica e carências específicas. 2) Se o ponto de corte utilizado para