Age and sociodemographic differentials in food patterns were examined in a probability sample of 372 households in a midwest metropolitan county. Two aspects of food patterns were delineated: food intake and eating patterns. Food intake was measured by the 24 hr recall method, and eating patterns by frequency of eating, skipping meals, and foods consumed shortly after rising. Meat was the only ...

BACKGROUND Obesity has been increasing in adolescents in Fiji and obesogenic dietary patterns need to be assessed to inform health promotion. The objective of this study was to identify the dietary patterns of adolescents in peri-urban Fiji and determine their relationships with standardized body mass index (BMI-z). METHODS This study analysed baseline measurements from the Pacific Obesity Pr...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate longitudinally the effectiveness of a cooking programme on self-reported confidence about cooking skills and food consumption patterns in parents of young children. DESIGN An evaluation of cooking programmes delivered by National Health Service (NHS) community food workers using a single group pre-test/post-test repeated measures design. A shortened version of a validate...

Dietary patterns derived by statistical procedures is a way to identify overall dietary habits in specific populations. The aim of this study was to identify and characterise dietary patterns in Swedish adults using data from the national dietary survey Riksmaten adults 2010-11 (952 women, 788 men). Principal component analyses were used and two patterns were identified in both sexes: a healthy...

The effect of different amount nettle hay meal replacing concentrated feed on the development replacement pig stock in terms live weight and external measurements are studied. Indicators growth patterns, nutrient consumption per 1 kg pigs under test cinsidered as well. Hematological indicators were researched. main group was fed with basic diet comparative periods experiment. (barley, wheat, pe...

The use of dietary patterns (DP) in nutritional research is well established; however, only a few studies of DP according to specific meals have been conducted. The purpose of this study was to identify the DP regarding breakfast, lunch and dinner meals of the population (aged 20 years and older of both sexes) that participated in the Health Care Survey of Sao Paulo. Food intake was estimated b...

these experiments were conducted to determine metabolizable energy and amino acid digestibilities of soybean meal, sunflower meal and canola meal in broiler chickens by using titanium oxide as indigestible marker in intact or caecectomized cockerels. ileal and total tract digestibility of amino acids were measured using broiler chickens, moreover, digestibility were also determined in the intac...