Análisis cuantitativo de las noticias de alimentación en la prensa madrileña en 2006

Abstract

This paper reports an analysis of newspaper (daily and weekend supplement) articles relating to food and nutrition made available in the Madrid Region during 2006. The aim of this work was to determine the kind of news most published in this field, and to better orientate interventions towards those areas considered most interesting or those in which information is lacking. The results showed nutrition and health articles to be by far the most common. These mainly made reference to obesity, cardiovascular diseases, anorexia, physical activity and sedentary lifestyles, body mass index, diet etc. Topics such as food safety, food habits, food properties and food quality were discussed much less frequently.