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PRONUTRISENIOR is a holistic approach that considers older adults as part of their environment, in order to better assist health professionals, caregivers and other professionals to monitor their nutritional status and thus reduce malnutrition in this population group. The education and empowerment of professionals were preceded by an assessment of the community and its environment. Such information was subsequently incorporated into the educational and informational materials to support training and empowerment programs. This paper presents the project rationale, describes the methods applied to attain the objectives defined within the scope of the older adults living in its environment, and presents general data on the studied population and sample.

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RESUMO - É fundamental conhecer hábitos alimentares e nutricionais de uma população, para poder intervir na promoção da saúde da mesma. Com este estudo epidemiológico transversal representativo da população portuguesa adulta (dados da SPCNA), pretendeu-se conhecer o padrão nutricional de ingestão quer energética quer em macronutrientes. Por entrevista individualizada (domicílio), registaram-se dados sociodemográficos e avaliou-se a ingestão alimentar, por questionário, das 24 h anteriores. Assim, os portugueses ingerem em média: 2.056 kcal/dia, 19,1% de proteínas, 31,3% de gordura, 45,8% de hidratos de carbono e 3,8% de etanol. Estes dados serão válidos para intervenções adequadas na saúde pública portuguesa.;ABSTRACT - Gathering knowledge about food and nutritional habits of a population is of the utmost importance since dietary intervention positively impacts health outcomes across the life span. With this transversal epidemiologic study representative of the adult Portuguese population (data from SPCNA), we tried to know the nutritional intake pattern (energy and macronutrients) of the Portuguese population. In an domiciliary individualized interview sociodemographic data were registered and food intake was evaluated by the 24-hour recall method. Portuguese energy intake, is on average, 2056 kcal/day, distributed by 19.1% of protein, 45.8% of carbohydrates and 31.3% of total fat, and 3.8% of ethanol. These data will be important to Portuguese public health interventions.