BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of diet quality indices in predicting obesity and abdominal obesity in a population in nutrition transition. METHODS This study explored the association of the Mediterranean Diet Scale (MDS), Healthy Eating Index-2005 (HEI-2005), and Diet Quality Index-International (DQI-I) with body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) ...

A high diet quality according to the Swedish nutrition recommendations is associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease in the population-based Malmö Diet and Cancer cohort. To further clarify this protective association, we examined the association between high diet quality and change in triglycerides, high density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C), and low density lipoprotein-cholest...

OBJECTIVE To determine the level of overall diet quality, sociodemographic predictors of diet quality, and the association between diet quality and body weight status in a nationally representative sample of preschoolers. METHODS Cross-sectional study using a sample of 2-5 years old with sociodemographic, dietary, and anthropometric data (n = 1,521) in the National Health and Examination Surv...

BACKGROUND The neighbourhood environment may play an important role in diet quality. Most previous research has examined the associations between neighbourhood food environment and diet quality, and neighbourhood socioeconomic status and diet quality separately. This study investigated the independent and joint effects of neighbourhood food environment and neighbourhood socioeconomic status in ...

BACKGROUND Limited data exist on the South African Indian diet despite their high prevalence of non-communicable diseases. This study attempted to determine the dietary quality and patterns of an Indian population in KwaZulu-Natal with reference to the high prevalence of non-communicable disease METHODS Two-hundred-and-fifty apparently healthy Indians, aged 35-55 years participated in a cross...

celiac disease is the inability of the small intestine to tolerate some cereal prolamin with sequence specific oligopeptide. wheat gliadin, rye secalins and barley hordenine are the main proteins involved in the disease mechanisms and may provoke an inflammatory process to damage the small intestine. there are different methods to overcome the problems for such patients one of them is using glu...

investigation on the food and feeding habits of silver carp in gobindsgar reservoir indicated that the diet of silver carp was dominated by cyclotella spp. (diatom) followed by chlorophyceae, cyanophyceae, crustacea, dianophyceae and rotifera. the size range of cyclotella spp. varied between 5-25 µm indicating that silver carp is capable to collect the food particles smaller than distance betwe...

background: it is widely considered that a regular breakfast provides a number of health benefits; however, there is no general scientific agreement regarding what kind of food should be consumed. evidence supports the importance of balancing blood glucose levels by l ow glycaemic index/load (l-gi/l) and increased protein diets, in particular in metabolic disorders, which non-alcoholic fatty li...