Consumption of Dairy and Metabolic Syndrome Risk in a Convenient Sample of Mexican College Applicants.docVIP

Food and Nutrition Sciences, 2013, 4, 56-65 /10.4236/fns.2013.41009 Published Online January 2013 (/journal/fns) Consumption of Dairy and Metabolic Syndrome Risk in a Convenient Sample of Mexican College Applicants Michelle A. Mosley , Flavia C. D. Andrade , Celia Aradillas-Garcia , Margarita Teran-Garcia 1 2 3 1* 1 Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA; 2 Department of Kinesiology and Commu- nity Health, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA; Mexico. * Email: teranmd@ 3 Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosí, Received November 27 , 2012; revised December 27 , 2012; accepted January 5 , 2013 th th th ABSTRACT The rise in metabolic syndrome (MetS) is accompanied by a decrease in milk and dairy consumption and an increase in sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption, with SSB possibly displacing dairy products in the diet. Our main ob- jective was to determine whether young individuals not meeting the dairy recommendations of 3 servings per day were at greater risk for MetS. In a cross-sectional design, a food frequency questionnaire was answered by Mexican college applicants (n = 339). Medical examination at a primary health care center and evaluation for presence of MetS risk fac- tors was completed as part of an ongoing collaborative project. Relative risk analyses were used to assess the impact of meeting or not the dairy recommendations for the presence of MetS. The MetS prevalence was 10. Three-fourths (76%) of participants were not meeting the daily recommendations. Individuals who failed to meet dairy recommendations were at 2