Revisão Produção Nacional Revisado por pares

Undernutrition – thirty years of the Regional Basic Diet: the legacy of Naíde Teodósio in different fields of knowledge

2021; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 25; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/1028415x.2021.1915631

ISSN

1476-8305

Autores

Larissa B. Jannuzzi, Amaury Pereira‐Acácio, Bruna Soares Ferreira, Debora Silva-Pereira, João P.M. Veloso-Santos, Danilo S. Alves-Bezerra, Jarlene A. Lopes, Glória Costa‐Sarmento, Lucienne S. Lara, Leucio Duarte Vieira Filho, Ricardo Abadie‐Guedes, Rubem Carlos Araújo Guedes, Adalberto Vieyra, Humberto Muzi‐Filho,

Tópico(s)

Digestive system and related health

Resumo

Undernutrition is characterized by an imbalance of essential nutrients with an insufficient nutritional intake, a disorder in which the clinical manifestations in most cases are the result of the economic and social context in which the individual lives. In 1990, the study by the medical and humanitarian Naíde Teodósio (1915–2005) and coworkers, which formulated the Regional Basic Diet (RBD) model for inducing undernutrition, was published. This diet model took its origin from the observation of the dietary habits of families that inhabited impoverished areas from the Pernambuco State. RBD mimics an undernutrition framework that extends not only to the Brazilian population, but to populations in different regions worldwide. The studies based on RBD-induced deficiencies provide a better understanding of the impact of undernutrition on the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the most diverse prevalent diseases. Indexed papers that are analyzed in this review focus on the importance of using RBD in different areas of knowledge. These papers reflect a new paradigm in translational medicine: they show how the study of pathology using the RBD model in animals over the past 30 years has and still can help scientists today, shedding light on the mechanisms of prevalent diseases that affect impoverished populations.

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