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Eating Patterns, Dietary Quality and Obesity

Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2001
Obesity among children has reached epidemic proportions. Today, an estimated one in four children in the United States is overweight. while 11% arc obese. Children who are overweight tend to remain so up to 20 years of age; in general, they have a 1.5- to twofold higher risk for becoming overweight as adults.
T A, Nicklas, T, Baranowski, K W, Cullen, G, Berenson   +3 more
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Quality Assessment Programs for Dietary Supplements

Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 2003
BACKGROUND: In the US, consumers and healthcare professionals have been forced to depend on self-regulation by the dietary supplement industry for product quality, consistency, potency, and purity, a system that has yielded mixed results at best. OBJECTIVE: To characterize the current state of product quality verification in the dietary supplement ...
Walter L, Larimore, Dónal P, O'Mathúna
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Simple Measures of Dietary Variety Are Associated with Improved Dietary Quality

Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 2006
The objective of this study was to identify a measure of dietary variety that was associated with improved dietary quality and easily understood by consumers. Dietary quality was measured by nutrient adequacy and intakes of added sugars, saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium.
Suzanne P, Murphy, Janet A, Foote, Lynne R, Wilkens, P Peter, Basiotis, Andrea, Carlson, Kami K L, White, Kim M, Yonemori   +6 more
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Dietary Quality and Adherence to Dietary Recommendations in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis

Journal of Renal Nutrition, 2016
The multiple dietary restrictions recommended to hemodialysis patients may be difficult to achieve and, at the same time, may result in nutritional deficiencies rendering a poor dietary quality. We here assess the dietary quality and adherence to renal-specific guideline recommendations among hemodialysis patients from a single center in Canary Islands,
Desiree Luis, Karyn Zlatkis, Beatriz Comenge, Zoraida García, Juan F. Navarro, Victor Lorenzo, Juan Jesús Carrero   +6 more
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Dietary restrictions, bone density, and bone quality

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2016
Caloric restriction (CR), protein restriction (PR), and specific amino acid restriction (e.g., methionine restriction (MR)) are different dietary interventions that have been confirmed with regard to their comprehensive benefits to metabolism and health. Based on bone densitometric measurements, weight loss induced by dietary restriction is known to be
Tsang-hai, Huang, Gene P, Ables
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Sweeteners and Dietary Quality

2014
There are a variety of clinical measures for dietary quality. Dietary quality is impacted by several factors including beverage choice, food availability, socioeconomic factors, culinary skills, and cultural factors. Several organizations make recommendations for healthy diets and include The American Heart Association, The Institute of ...
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Expenditure dispersion and dietary quality: evidence from Canada [PDF]

Health Economics, 2008
AbstractThis paper examines links between the way in which a household spreads their food expenditure over time and the dietary quality of the food they purchase. I find that households who make more frequent, smaller food purchases buy healthier foods than households who make fewer, larger purchases.
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Dietary Intake of College Students: Attitudes, Knowledge and Dietary Quality

Journal of the Association for the Study of Food and Society, 1996
The objectives of this study were to identify the degree to which dietary intakes of college students met current dietary recommendations and to assess relationships between knowledge of food compo...
Sara Weaver, Karen S. Kubena, W. Alex McIntosh   +2 more
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Dietary Lipid Quality and Long-Term Outcome

2011
Understanding the importance of dietary fat has grown beyond energy metabolism to recognition of the complex roles of fatty acids, particularly the ω-6 and ω-3 fatty acids in membrane lipids, inter- and intracellular communication and in regulating gene expression.
Elizabeth M, Novak, Bernd O, Keller, Sheila M, Innis   +2 more
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Dietary phosphorus and water quality

2017
There is a direct relationship between phosphorus levels in dairy cattle rations and the amount of phosphorus excreted in manure. Phosphorus accumulates in surface water and can pollute ponds, streams and lakes.
Myers, Kelly, Knowlton, Katharine F., Jones, Gerald M.   +2 more
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