Victor R. Preedy, Lan-Anh Hunter, Vinood B. Patel, editors
Volume 2 /
New York, NY :
Humana Press,
c2013
1 online resource :
ill. (some col.), map
Nutrition and health series
Includes bibliographical references and index
Part I. Diseases and conditions -- The association between diet quality and weight changes in adults over time: a systematic review of prospective cohort studies -- Diet quality and cerebral infarction: South Korean aspects -- Diet quality and breast cancer risk -- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in adults: the impact of diet and other therapeutic interventions on clinical and histological outcomes -- C-reactive protein and diet quality in children -- Part II. Eating, behaviour and psychology -- Family meals and diet quality -- The influence of motivations to eat on weight status and diet quality -- The role of food reinforcement in food selection, energy intake, and diet quality -- Breakfast, ready-to-eat cereal, and diet quality -- Fast-food consumption: its association with food prices and dietary quality -- Part III. International perspectives, public health initiatitives -- The German food pyramid -- Diet quality in the context of the Nordic diet -- Dietary guidelines for Americans: a brief history -- Awareness of the United States federal dietary guidance and its association with dietary quality -- Food choices and healthy eating in Hispanic adults -- Puerto Rican guidelines on food and diet quality -- Dietary acculturation and diet quality among the Arab minority population in Israel -- Diet quality in developing countries -- Dietary quality and the nutrition transition in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Diet quality in Peri-urban settlements: South African aspects -- Part IV. Methods, indexes and scoring systems: applications and analysis -- The 'diet quality index' and its applications -- Diet quality assessed with the "Framingham Nutritional Risk Score" -- The overall nutritional quality index (ONQI): derivations, validation, and application -- Mediterranean diet quality index and albuminuria levels and relationship between other physiological variables -- Diet quality anduse of a personal digital assistant: transitioning from the standard paper diary to electronic diaries -- A systematic review of peer-reviewed studies on diet quality indexes applied to old age: a multitude of predictors of diet quality -- System of indicators for th enutritional quality of marketing and food environment: Product quality, availability, affordability, and promotion -- Diet quality: what more is there to know?