conclusions the nutritional behavior of university students was poor. therefore, it is essential to encourage young people, including university students to enrich their diets with milk, beans, fruit, and vegetables to decrease the risks of nutrition related disorders. results from a total of 210 postgraduate students 110 were females, and 100 males. no significant correlation was observed betw...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Recent developments in technology-based dietary assessment allow real-time data collection of eating occasions, yet their application to assessing eating pattern constructs has not been evaluated. The purpose of this review was to examine existing electronic and mobile food diary methods in relation to their ability to assess eating patterns constructs (e.g. patterning, format...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to evaluate the reproducibility and validity of the newly developed FFQ for the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) and to estimate the measure's calibration factors. DESIGN The 109-item FFQ was administered twice, approximately 9 months apart. We also collected four seasonal 3 d dietary records (DR) as a reference method. Correlation coefficie...

BACKGROUND Current academic literature suggests that school gardening programmes can provide an interactive environment with the potential to change children's fruit and vegetable intake. This is the first cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) designed to evaluate whether a school gardening programme can have an effect on children's fruit and vegetable intake. METHODS The trial included c...

Coding diet records is a basic element of most dietary surveys, yet it often receives little attention even though errors in coding can lead to flawed study results. In the INTERnational study of MAcro- and micronutrients and blood Pressure (INTERMAP study), efforts were made to minimise errors in coding the 18, 720 diet records. Staff were centrally trained and certified before being able to p...

BACKGROUND Little information is available on infants' age at first introduction of potentially allergenic foods as part of complementary feeding. We aimed to analyze age at the introduction of potentially allergenic foods in healthy term infants relative to recommendations in 5 European countries. METHOD Recruitment was conducted from October 2002 to June 2004. A total of 1,678 infants [588 ...

Sources of variation in nutrient intake have been examined for Western diets, but little is known about the sources of variation and their differences by age and sex among Koreans. We examined sources of variation in nutrient intake and calculated the number of days needed to estimate usual intake using 12 d of dietary records (DR). To this end, four 3 d DR including two weekdays and one weeken...

KEY POINTS • Different protocols are available for collecting data on the eating practices of athletes according to the goals and available resources of the activity. • Retrospective methods (e.g., food frequency questionnaires and diet history) are limited by the athlete’s insights and memory, while prospective methods (e.g., food diaries) are limited by the tendency for the act of recording t...

self-reported measures of dietary intake are prone to measurement error that may obscure the relationship of diet and disease. this review addresses strategies to decrease errors during collection of dietary data and statistical approaches to deal with measurement issues once the data are collected.  examples from two us studies-- the women’s health initiative (whi) dietary modification trial a...

background the malaysian health and morbidity survey (2006) reported the highest prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm) among the indian population compared to the malay and chinese populations. many studies have supported the important role of adiponectin in insulin-sensitizing, which is associated with t2dm. these studies have raised a research question whether the variation in prevale...