Healthy Eating Index and obesity

Healthy Eating Index and abdominal obesity.

OBJECTIVE Although diet is a modifiable lifestyle factor to reduce abdominal obesity risk, the relationship between the Health Eating Index (HEI) and waist circumference (WC) has not been studied. The present study aimed to describe relationships between the HEI and abdominal obesity among adults. DESIGN Secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional national survey, the Third National Health a...

A New, Obesity-specific Healthy Eating Index (OS-HEI)

Because of the strong relationship between health status and diet quality, many indices have been developed to measure diet quality. Although most of these indices are intended to show a relationship with health outcomes, in all indices this association has been proved to be moderate, especially in the case of obesity. Moreover, all suggested indices are based on a high level of subjectivity in...

Relation between Healthy Eating Index and Resting Metabolic Rate

Background and Objectives: Previouse studies demonstrated inverse association between healthy eating index and alot of chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease and cancer and mortality. Since there are limited study about relation between healthy eating index and reting metabolic rate. considering the results of some studies about the relation between weight, body composition and blood suge...

The Healthy Eating Index

Healthy Eating Index and Alternate Healthy Eating Index among Haitian Americans and African Americans with and without Type 2 Diabetes

Ethnicities within Black populations have not been distinguished in most nutrition studies. We sought to examine dietary differences between African Americans (AA) and Haitian Americans (HA) with and without type 2 diabetes using the Healthy Eating Index, 2005 (HEI-05), and the Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI). The design was cross-sectional N = 471 (225 AA, 246 HA) and recruitment was by ...