Solomons Noel W, Kaufer-Horwitz Martha, Bermúdez Odilia I
Centro de Estudios en Sensoriopatías, Senectud, Impedimentos y Alteraciones del Metabolismo (CESSIAM), Guatemala, Guatemala, Fundación Mexicana para la Salud, Distrito Federal, México.
Arch Latinoam Nutr. 2004 Dec;54(4):363-73.
Mesoamerica, the area we focus for this paper, is a section of Latin America that extends from Central Mexico to Panama. The deliberations of international committees are the primary bases for their nutrient-based recommendations. To a smaller extent, the unique particularities of the bioavailability for one or another nutrient have been considered. The nutrient recommendations throughout the region are "relatively" uniform and mutually consistent with respect to: iron, iodine and most of the B-complex vitamins. discrepancies exist among the various sets of recommendations for other nutrients. A valid basis of harmonization would not be unification of recommendations across all nationalities, but rather assuring a consistency in the nutrient profile that is recommended provides the nutrient exposures and/or fills the body's reserves as best suits the goals of survival, growth, well-being and function within the ecological niche of the population. That the recommendations for nutrients must be satisfied from foods, foods that are accessible and culturally acceptable, and that approximate the parallel demands of food-based dietary guidelines, add additional constraints onto the process of enunciating the former.
中美洲，即本文所关注的地区，是拉丁美洲的一部分，从墨西哥中部延伸至巴拿马。国际委员会的审议是其基于营养素的建议的主要依据。在较小程度上，也考虑了一种或另一种营养素生物利用度的独特特性。该地区的营养素建议在铁、碘和大多数B族复合维生素方面“相对”统一且相互一致。对于其他营养素，不同的建议之间存在差异。协调的有效基础不是统一所有国家的建议，而是确保所推荐的营养素概况具有一致性，即所推荐的营养素摄入量能满足营养需求和/或补充身体储备，以最适合该人群在其生态位中的生存、生长、健康和功能目标。营养素的建议必须通过可获取且在文化上可接受的食物来满足，并且这些食物要近似于基于食物的膳食指南的类似要求，这给阐述前者的过程增加了额外的限制。
