Here, we describe the measurement characteristics of a 13-item dietary screener used in the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial. We used data from 10,913 men who completed the 13-item dietary screener, a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), and questionnaires on demographic and health-related characteristics and from 146 men who also completed multiple 24-h dietary recalls in a substudy. The analys...

The purpose of this Advisory is to review potential effects of fat substitutes on achieving the American Heart Association (AHA) dietary recommendations for fat intake and to examine the potential effects of fat substitutes on health. Fat substitutes are compounds incorporated into food products to provide them with some of the qualities of fat. Trends in dietary fat intake and the composition ...

BACKGROUND In studies of adult humans and in animal models, dietary intakes of the macronutrients, particularly fat, are related to body composition; however, data on children are more scarce. OBJECTIVE We sought to determine whether diet composition is related to percentage body fat in children aged 1.5-4.5 y. DESIGN In 77 preschool children, a 4-d weighed-food record was used to determine...

Studies were carried out to examine the effects of dietary fat and cholesterol on cholesterol homeostasis in man. 75 12-wk studies were carried out during intake of 35% of calories as either saturated or polyunsaturated fat, first low and then high in dietary cholesterol. Dietary fat and cholesterol intakes, plasma lipid and lipoprotein levels, cholesterol absorption and sterol synthesis in iso...

A high-oleic-acid peanut breeding line was used in a study designed to determine the effects of feeding swine diets containing elevated levels of monounsaturated fatty acids as a means to increase the level of monounsaturates and total unsaturates in the resulting carcass fat. Forty-eight pigs were allotted to four treatments that consisted of corn-soybean meal diets that contained 1) high-olei...

Although research suggests that fat talk, the normalized conversations that involve degrading one's body shape/weight and size, can increase body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behavior, the extent to which dietary restraint may moderate these relationships remains uncertain. A pilot study (N=30) comparing online videos with researcher-developed vignettes as prospective manipulations for...