Dietary patterns are the combinations, quantities, and proportions of foods and beverages habitually consumed by an individual or population, analyzed as a whole rather than as single nutrients in isolation. This approach recognizes that foods are eaten in combination and that their cumulative effect on health may d…
Dietary patterns are the combinations, quantities, and proportions of foods and beverages habitually consumed by an individual or population, analyzed as a whole rather than as single nutrients in isolation. This approach recognizes that foods are eaten in combination and that their cumulative effect on health may differ from the effect of any one component. Studying dietary patterns helps researchers understand relationships between habitual eating, nutritional status, and the risk of chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, and hypertension, and it informs food-based dietary guidelines and public-health nutrition policy. Research in this journal examines dietary patterns across diverse populations and life stages. Studies include dietary intake among people in rehabilitation settings, the place of vegetarianism within food-based dietary guidelines, and dietary diversity and nutritional status among adolescent pregnant women, reproductive-age women, and urban adolescent girls. Other contributions assess individual dietary diversity scores in patients with diabetes and hypertension, the effects of nutrition education in schoolchildren, comparative dietary education between countries, high-fat dietary approaches, dairy consumption and immune response, and orthorexia in young adults. Together these works reflect dietary patterns as a field linking nutrition science, epidemiology, behavior, and public health.
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