background: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) is a major public health problem worldwide. smoking is the number one cause of copd; however, genetic, environmental and dietary factors contribute to the etiology of this disease. in this study, we assessed the association between three diet quality indices -the healthy eating index-2005 (hei-2005), the healthy eating index-2010 (hei-201...

A healthful diet can reduce major risk factors for chronic diseases. To assess the dietary status of Thais and monitor changes in food consumption patterns, the Healthy Eating Index for Thais (THEI) is developed, an important tool for meeting the nutrition goals and determining people's overall diet quality. This index measures how well the diets of Thai people conform to the recommendations of...

t t s 1 c a e d BSTRACT he Healthy Eating Index (HEI) is a measure of diet uality as specified by Federal dietary guidance, and ublication of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 ecessitated its revision. An interagency working group ased the HEI-2005 on the food patterns found in Myyramid. Diets that meet the least restrictive of the foodroup recommendations, expressed on a per 1,000 calo...

Although studies demonstrate that dietary interventions for healthy adults can result in beneficial dietary changes, few studies examine when and how people change in response to these interventions, particularly in rural populations. The purpose of this study was to examine patterns of change over time in healthy eating behaviors in midlife and older women in response to a one-year health-prom...

Background: Obesity as the excessive accumulation of adipose in adipocytes has still remained equivocal. Since diets contain many components to prevent from or promote diseases, assessing effects of the whole diet on health can be more practical. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between quality of diets through healthy eating index (HEI), and body composition paramet...

Anxiety and depression are among the mental disorders that are highly prevalent in advanced and developing societies. Statistics show that one in five people, especially women, suffer from these disorders at some point in their lives. In Iran, the prevalence of anxiety is 15.6% and depression is 12.7% (Khademian et al., 2021, Mohammadi et al., 2019)

conclusions the results of the current study suggest that increasing the quality of the diet calculated according to hei can reduce the risk of coming down with cataract. patients and methods this case-control study was conducted on 97 patients with cataract and 198 healthy people (as a control group) in iran. individuals were selected by the convenience sampling method and the food frequency q...

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the quality of diet measured by Healthy Eating Index (HEI) between individuals with and without metabolic syndrome. Materials and Methods: This case-control study was performed in Tehran and consisted of 103 overweight and obese individuals (52 cases and 51 controls) within age range of 20 to 55 years. Case and control were matched for age and s...

This study evaluated the quality of diet of the population receiving the Bolsa Familia Program in Curitiba, state of Parana, Brazil. It was a population-based cross-sectional study, conducted from July 2006 to July 2007. 747 beneficiaries were interviewed from 19 years of age, of both genders. A 24 hour-recall was implemented in order to assess the quality of the diet and the Healthy Eating Ind...