Diet - Standards
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Diet, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and perceptions of the environment in young adults.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Few studies have explored both food behaviour and physical activity in an environmental context. Most research in this area has focused on adults; the aim of the present study was to describe perceptions of the environment, diet, ... Read more...

Testing theories of dietary behavior change in youth using the mediating variable model with intervention programs.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: To review and critique current experimentally-based evidence of theoretical mechanisms of dietary behavior change in youth and provide recommendations on ways to enhance theory evaluation. METHODS: Interventions that examined mediators of ... Read more...

Diet quality in Canada.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: In addition to recommendations about the consumption of specific foods and nutriens, a measure of overall diet quality is useful. Over the years, a number of countries, but not Canada, have developed indexes to evaluate diet quality. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Diet - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Diet, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and perceptions of the environment in young adults. 29 Sep 2009
• Cultural complexities in dietary assessment and treatment. 29 Sep 2009
• Testing theories of dietary behavior change in youth using the mediating variable model with intervention programs. 30 Aug 2009
• Diet quality in Canada. 30 Aug 2009
• Neighborhood-level disadvantage is associated with reduced dietary quality in children. 30 Aug 2009
• Are school employees role models of healthful eating? Dietary intake results from the ACTION worksite wellness trial. 30 Aug 2009
• Improving health among American Indians through environmentally-focused nutrition interventions. 30 Aug 2009
• Role of depressive symptoms in explaining socioeconomic status disparities in dietary quality and central adiposity among US adults: a structural equation modeling approach. 24 Aug 2009
• Diet quality is associated with better cognitive test performance among aging men and women. 10 Aug 2009
• A review of the evidence for the impact of improving nutritional care on nutritional and clinical outcomes and cost. 30 Jul 2009
• Food guides. A compromise solution. 30 Jul 2009
• Low-fat dairy intake and body weight and composition changes in college students. 30 Jul 2009
• Intakes of plain water, moisture in foods and beverages, and total water in the adult US population--nutritional, meal pattern, and body weight correlates: National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys 1999-2006. 27 Jul 2009
• Less-energy-dense diets of low-income women in California are associated with higher energy-adjusted costs but not with higher daily diet costs. 27 Jul 2009
• To meet nutrient recommendations, most French adults need to expand their habitual food repertoire. 20 Jul 2009
• Dietary patterns and breast cancer risk in women participating in the Black Women's Health Study. 6 Jul 2009
• Nutrition 101: good eating for good health. 29 Jun 2009
• Overview of methods used to evaluate the adequacy of nutrient intakes for individuals and populations. 29 Jun 2009
• Dietary patterns and nutritional adequacy in a Mediterranean country. 29 Jun 2009
• Validity of dietary patterns to assess nutrient intake adequacy. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Diet'

Definition: Regular course of eating and drinking adopted by a person or animal. This does not include DIET THERAPY, a specific diet prescribed in the treatment of a disease.

Descriptor UI: D004032

Alternative terms: Diet; Diets;

Related Mesh Headings: Cookery;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethnology;

Tree Number: E05.272; G07.610.240;

Technical Notes: what a person usually eats: do not confuse with DIET THERAPY, what a physician prescribes to treat a condition; GEN or unspecified; prefer specific diets; /trends: do not confuse with DIET FADS; differentiation among food & diet headings: Manual 31.5; in vet journals consider also ANIMAL FEED; SILAGE; etc.; TN 50: animal diet; consider also DIABETIC DIET