On July 6, 2009, an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred among middle school students in Incheon. An investigation to identify the source and describe the extent of the outbreak was conducted. A retrospective cohort study among students, teachers, and food handlers exposed to canteen food in the middle school was performed. Using self-administered questionnaires, information was collected conce...

This study aimed to define a one portion size of food items frequently consumed for convenient use by Koreans in food selection, diet planning, and nutritional evaluation. We analyzed using the original data on 5,436 persons (60.87%) aged 20 ~ 64 years among 8,930 persons to whom NHANES 2005 and selected food items consumed by the intake frequency of 30 or higher among the 500 most frequently c...

background: earlier forms of food frequency questionnaire (ffq) used in iran have extensive lists of foods, traditional categories and food-based design, mostly with the interviewer-administered approach. the aim of the current paper is to describe the development of a dish-based, machine-readable, semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (dfq). methods: within the framework of the study ...

We examined the association between food insecurity and total daily energy intakes in American men and women. We estimated the number of daily snacks and meals consumed by individuals in different food security categories. Also, we calculated the energy contribution, energy density, and food group sources of those snacks and meals. Using the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination S...

This study investigated the vitamin contents and health benefits of nine wild plants consumed as food, medicine, or animal feed in around Elazığ Malatya, Turkey. The introduced Rheum ribes, Gundelia tournefortii, Tragopogon reticulatus, Urtica dioica, Asphodelus aestivus, Medicago sativa, Nasturtium officinale, Mentha pulegium, Capsella pastoris. results showed that were common ingredients Turk...

The objective of the present study was to examine the associations between the portion sizes of food groups consumed with measures of adiposity using data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey of British adults. Seven-day weighed dietary records, physical activity diaries and anthropometric measurements were used. Foods eaten were assigned to thirty different food groups and analyses were...

BACKGROUND Hajj is the largest annual mass gathering of muslims. The exorbitant crowd of pilgrims and the poor condition of personal hygiene and nutrition are the main predisposing factors for different infections and food poisonings. OBJECTIVES This study investigates a gastroenteritis outbreak among an Iranian caravan of hajj pilgrims. MATERIALS AND METHODS Studying the outbreak was carri...