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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"dietary quality"”.
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Sensory and dietary quality of fiber-beef blends
Recently, there has been an increased interest in manufacturing high fiber Foods. Beef patties containing 1% Lupran (sweet lupin bran flour), 2% barley and 3% of both fibers (1% Lu + 2% Ba) and a control all-beef pattie were manufactured and comparatively evaluated by visual and sensory panels. …
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Associations Between 10–14-year-old Children’s Eating Competence, Dietary Patterns, and Dietary Quality
… connections between eating competence (EC) and dietary quality helps to identify potential ways to promote healthy eating habits. The evidence on the relationship between children’s EC and dietary quality is limited. This thesis examined the associations between 10–14-year-old children’s EC, …
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Dietary quality of school-aged children and teenagers in Ireland by demographic characteristics and eating location
… distinctive life stages characterised by unique dietary needs. Data from nationally representative dietary surveys of children and teenagers across Europe have shown that intakes of key nutrients are not in line with recommendations. Furthermore, demographic characteristics such as sex, age, …
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Variability in dietary quality of elementary school lunch menus with changes in National School Lunch Program nutrition standards
… Kids Act (HHFKA, 2010) presumably improved dietary quality (DQ) of reimbursable school meals from previous standards, while Child Nutrition Program Flexibilities (CNP Flexibilities, 2017) appear to decrease DQ. However, this variability in DQ has not been quantified. Thus, the purpose of …
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Nutrition label use in college students: An examination of predictors, the impact of label placement, and the relationship between label use and dietary quality
… assessing the prevalence, correlates, and dietary impact of label usage in college students. Chapter 1 provides a summary and overall of the theoretical basis for this work. Chapter 2 reviews predictors of nutrition label usage and estimates an overall prevalence of label usage in college …
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Association between Stress and Diet Quality among Women of Reproductive Age from a University Population in two countries: UK and Lebanon
… Perceived stress has been associated with poorer dietary patterns; however, the evidence among reproductive-aged women is scarce. The objective of this PhD project was to investigate the association between stress and dietary quality/patterns in reproductive-aged women from UK and Lebanon and to …
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Food Security and Social Networks: Impacts for Smallholder Farmers in the Mount Elgon Region of Kenya and Uganda
… and agricultural production, food security and dietary quality in the Mount Elgon region of western Kenya and eastern Uganda. Food security and dietary quality were measured through calorie consumption of the female household head in a 24 hour dietary recall, the calculation the World Food …
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Development and Testing of a Food and Nutrition Practice Checklist (FNPC) for Use with Basic Nutrition and Disease Prevention Education Programs
… blacks, found that the physical activity and dietary quality domains of the instrument had achieved an acceptable test-retest reliability coefficient of .70, however the food safety domain achieved a 0.51. For validity, the instrument scored an overall Spearman Correlation Coefficient of 0.28 …
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Dietary Intake Changes in Response to a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Reduction Trial for SNAP Participants and Nonparticipants
… influences the magnitude of improvement in dietary intake in response to dietary interventions. Adults with low socioeconomic status (SES) tend to have lower overall dietary quality as compared to those with higher SES. However, low SES adults are more likely to receive benefits from SNAP, …
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The Examination of Mindfulness, Stress, and Eating Behaviors in Mothers of Young Children
… explore new approaches and strategies to improve dietary quality and weight status. Recently, a neuropsychological model of obesity was proposed. This new model illustrates an evidencebased relationship between a chronically activated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, due to chronic …
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Dietary Research within the Context of a Community-Based Food System
… and promote food environment changes to increase dietary quality, this dissertation focuses on community-based food systems research with two different populations: Head Start families in southwest Virginia and Heifer International Alternative Spring Break (ASB) college student participants at …
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The Relationship of Some Psycho-Social Factors to Food Consumption Behavior of Selected Married Men
… Nutrient intakes were estimated using a dietary history method. Mean intakes for males over 50 years of age of protein, calcium, iron, vitamin A, vitamin C, and thiamin were all greater than 100 percent RDA as were intakes of all these nutrients except thiamin (89% RDA) for males 23 to 50 …
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Characterization of Non-nutritive Sweetener Intake Patterns in a Sample of Rural Southwest Virginian Adults
… of limitations, one of which is inadequate dietary assessment methodology. Accuracy of dietary intake assessment methods is limited by the inability to distinguish between different types of NNS and lack of information about consumer use of NNS in a variety of beverages and foods. The …
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Nutritional adequacy comparison of Paleo and healthy U.S. dietary patterns followed by athletic adults
… adequacy derived from following a Paleo dietary pattern. An original pilot study is also presented which uses survey and diet journal data to qualitatively explore the nutritional adequacy of the Paleo diet and the Healthy U.S.-style Pattern (HUS) recommended within the Dietary Guidelines …
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A social epidemiology of foodwork and home-prepared food
… modifiable determinant of diet composition and quality. Ideas about the importance of home food preparation to good nutrition have permeated into policy, with a number of countries emphasising home food preparation and home-prepared food in their dietary guidelines and food guides. These …
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Nutrient Intake of Marathon Runners
… analyzed and compared to various standards of dietary quality. Nutrient intake by the runners exceeded two-thirds the Recommended Dietary Allowance for all nutrients except for vitamin D and zinc in female runners. Energy and nutrient intake levels in the marathon runners were higher than those …
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Does food retail access influence dietary intake?
… cross-sectional study aimed to determine whether dietary intake is associated with food retailing. 5044 adults aged 16-97 years completed a 134-item food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), from which three dietary indices were derived. Data on 33 retailed foods were obtained from 560 food stores in …
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Authoritative Mothers Exhibit More Permissive Feeding Practices Eating Away from Home with their Children
… to childhood obesity, with links to poor diet quality and higher weight status due to dietary quality of meals at restaurants and consumers' attitudes. Parenting style has been associated with children's weight status and overall attitudes toward food, with authoritative parenting being shown …
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The relationship of the Diet Quality Index to prevalence of overweight in black and white adolescent girls: an examination of data from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Growth and Health Study
… an opportunity to test differences in diet quality and its relationship to weight classification for black (n=270) and white (n=243) adolescent females. Three-day food records from adolescents enrolled in the Washington, D.C. center of the NGHS were scored according to the Diet Quality Index …
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Investigating the Cost of National School Lunch Program Lunches versus the Full, Time-Inclusive Cost of Home-Packed Lunches
… (NSLP) meals have been found to be of higher dietary quality than home-packed lunches. Objective: To explore the cost, including time, of NSLP versus different categories of home-packed lunches. Methods: Data from pre-kindergarten and kindergarten lunches from three schools in southwest …
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