The French Agency for Children's Foods (SFAE) has conducted a national survey on the eating behaviors and food consumption of children under 3 years of age every 8 years since 1981. A survey of this scope requires the involvement of many stakeholders with diverse skills (professionals in conducting studies and surveys, healthcare professionals and researchers such as pediatricians and nutrionis...

Dietary recommendations on nutrient intakes as published by the German Society of Nutrition are only met by a very small proportion of the adult population in East and in West Germany. Dietary data from the Nutrition Survey and Risk Factor Analysis Study in West Germany and from the National Health Survey in East Germany were used to identify differences in nutrient intakes and in food consumpt...

Dietary intake was assessed in 50 patients in hospital by using a dietary history method and computer based system for data collection and standard food tables to calculate the composition of nutrients. The results were compared with those from a weighed assessment that was calculated by using both food tables and manufacturers' food analyses. The use of the food tables overestimated mean (SEM)...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether nutrient and food intakes among South Asian adult immigrants differ by length of residence in the USA. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis to examine differences in nutrient and food intakes by length of residence in the USA. Dietary data were collected using an interviewer-administered, culturally appropriate FFQ, while self-reported length of residence was assessed ...

dietary knowledge and access to resources are critical to improve health and nutritional status in a sustainable way. the present study was conducted to assess the dietary pattern and associated intake of different essential nutrients and vitamins by adolescents in himachal pradesh of india. a sample of 150 adolescents in the age group of 11-19 years from the two selected blocks (panchrukhi and...

OBJECTIVE To compare dietary intakes, food servings, and cooking practices of Pacific ethnic groups with New Zealand Europeans. METHODS Daily nutrient intakes were calculated from a self-administered food frequency questionnaire from a cross-sectional health screening study. Participants were Pacific (n=954) and New Zealand European (n=1.745) people aged 35 to 74 years. RESULTS Total energy...

BACKGROUND Dietary assessment methods are important tools for nutrition research. Online dietary assessment tools have the potential to become invaluable methods of assessing dietary intake because, compared with traditional methods, they have many advantages including the automatic storage of input data and the immediate generation of nutritional outputs. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was ...

PURPOSE Degrees of nutrient intake and food groups have been linked to differential chronic disease risk. However, intakes of specific nutrients may also be associated with differential diet costs and unobserved differences in socioeconomic status (SES). The present study examined degrees of nutrient intake, for every key nutrient in the diet, in relation to diet cost and SES. METHODS Socio-d...

Economic growth in developing countries and globalization of the food sector is leading to increasingly similar food consumption patterns worldwide. The aim of this study was to describe similarities and differences in the contributions of main food groups to energy and nutrient intakes in five developed countries across three continents. We obtained summary reports of national food consumption...