Nutrition Transition and Biocultural Determinants of Obesity among Cameroonian Migrants in Urban Cameroon and France

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ID15480659
AutoresEmmanuel Cohen (0000-0001-5643-1473, University of the Witwatersrand, autor de correspondencia), Norbert Amougou (Éco-Anthropologie), Amandine Ponty (Éco-Anthropologie), Juliette Loinger-Beck (Éco-Anthropologie), Téodyl Nkuintchua (Éco-Anthropologie), Nicolas Monteillet (Éco-Anthropologie), Jonathan Y Bernard (0000-0002-6418-983X, Éco-Anthropologie), Rihlat Said‐mohamed (0000-0003-1592-5412, University of the Witwatersrand), Rihlat Said-Mohamed (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7206, Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie, Musée de l’Homme, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 17 place du Trocadéro, 75016 Paris, France), Michelle Holdsworth (0000-0001-6028-885X, University of Sheffield), P Pasquet (0000-0002-7017-3068, Éco-Anthropologie)
Año2017
Volumen14
Número7
Páginas696-696
Fecha de publicación2017-06-29
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601
EditorialMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/ijerph14070696
PMID28661463
OpenAlexW2730585722
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas62

Native of rural West Cameroon, the Bamiléké population is traditionally predisposed to obesity. Bamiléké who migrated to urban areas additionally experience the nutrition transition. We investigated the biocultural determinants of obesity in Bamiléké who migrated to urban Cameroon (Yaoundé), or urban France (Paris). We conducted qualitative interviews ( n = 36; 18 men) and a quantitative survey ( n = 627; 266 men) of adults using two-stage sampling strategy, to determine the association of dietary intake, physical activity and body weight norms with obesity of Bamiléké populations in these three socio-ecological areas (rural Cameroon: n = 258; urban Cameroon: n = 319; urban France: n = 50). The Bamiléké valued overweight and traditional energy-dense diets in rural and urban Cameroon. Physical activity levels were lower, consumption of processed energy-dense food was frequent and obesity levels higher in new migrants living in urban Cameroon and France. Female sex, age, duration of residence in urban areas, lower physical activity and valorisation of overweight were independently associated with obesity status. This work argues in favour of local and global health policies that account for the origin and the migration trajectories to prevent obesity in migrants

Environmental health · Fat accumulation · Geography · Nutrition transition · Obesity · Overweight · Population · Residence · Rural area · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Medicine · Nutritional Studies and Diet · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet