Diet Surveys
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Sunday, November 22, 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...

Use of a brief food frequency questionnaire for estimating daily number of servings of fruits and vegetables in a minority adolescent population.

29 Sep 2009 The validity of the 5 A Day for Better Health Program food frequency questionnaire (5 A Day FFQ) for estimating fruit and vegetable consumption was examined in a sample of 156 African-American adolescents aged 10 to 14 years. To determine validity, ... Read more...

Predictors of calcium intake at dinner meals of ethnically diverse mother-child dyads from families with limited incomes.

29 Sep 2009 Diets adequate in calcium and other key nutrients early in life are critical for optimal growth. This study's objective was to determine associations between beverage and dairy food intakes of mothers and their young children and food/beverage ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Diet Surveys'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A new global monitoring system for food insecurity? 8 Oct 2009
• Diet, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and perceptions of the environment in young adults. 29 Sep 2009
• Use of a brief food frequency questionnaire for estimating daily number of servings of fruits and vegetables in a minority adolescent population. 29 Sep 2009
• Predictors of calcium intake at dinner meals of ethnically diverse mother-child dyads from families with limited incomes. 29 Sep 2009
• Rice consumption in the United States: recent evidence from food consumption surveys. 29 Sep 2009
• Markers for the validation of reported dietary intake in adults with cystic fibrosis. 29 Sep 2009
• Maternal nutrient intake and risks for transverse and longitudinal limb deficiencies: data from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997-2003. 30 Aug 2009
• Fruits and vegetables at home: child and parent perceptions. 30 Aug 2009
• Diet quality in Canada. 30 Aug 2009
• Distributing free fresh fruit and vegetables at school: results of a pilot outcome evaluation. 30 Aug 2009
• Development and validation of a beverage and snack questionnaire for use in evaluation of school nutrition policies. 30 Aug 2009
• Are school employees role models of healthful eating? Dietary intake results from the ACTION worksite wellness trial. 30 Aug 2009
• Diet based on the Japanese Food Guide Spinning Top and subsequent mortality among men and women in a general Japanese population. 30 Aug 2009
• Generalizability of dietary patterns associated with incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus. 24 Aug 2009
• Total antioxidant performance is associated with diet and serum antioxidants in participants of the diet and physical activity substudy of the Jackson Heart Study. 24 Aug 2009
• Women's dietary patterns change little from before to during pregnancy. 24 Aug 2009
• Regularly consuming red meat could have health consequences. 30 Jul 2009
• Dietary fat intake--a global perspective. 28 Jul 2009
• Dietary supplement use in the prevention of age-related macular degeneration progression. 22 Jul 2009
• Current patterns of diet in community-dwelling older men and women: results from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study. 21 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Diet Surveys'

Definition: Systematic collections of factual data pertaining to the diet of a human population within a given geographic area.

Descriptor UI: D004034

Alternative terms: Diet Surveys; Diet Survey; Survey, Diet; Surveys, Diet;

Tree Number: E05.318.308.250.600.350; E05.318.308.585.550.350; N05.715.360.300.375.560.300; N05.715.360.300.560.565.300; N06.850.520.308.250.600.350; N06.850.520.308.585.550.350;

Online Note: use NUTRITION SURVEYS to search DIET SURVEYS 1966-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under NUTRITION SURVEYS 1975-90

Technical Notes: no qualif; TN 97: caution against word "survey"