Trends of food intake in Portugal, 1987-1999: results from the National Health Surveys

Objective: To assess trends of food intake in Portugal. Design: Analysis of three cross-sectional studies: 1987, 1995-1996 and 1998-1999. Setting: Representative samples of free-living individuals. Subjects: 64 734 men and 71 282 women. Interventions: Food intake was assessed by questionnaires inqui...

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Published in:European journal of clinical nutrition 2006-12, Vol.60 (12), p.1414-1422
Main Authors: Marques-Vidal, P, Ravasco, P, Dias, C.M, Camilo, M.E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Age
Age Distribution
Aged
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child, Preschool
Clinical Nutrition
Cross-Sectional Studies
Diet
Diet - statistics & numerical data
Diet - trends
Dietary Proteins - administration & dosage
dietary surveys
Educational Status
Epidemiology
Feeding Behavior
Female
Fish
Food
food choices
food frequency questionnaires
Food intake
Fruit
Fruits
General aspects
health status
human nutrition
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Internal Medicine
Male
Meals
Meat
Medical sciences
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
men
Metabolic Diseases
Middle Aged
Milk
Multivariate Analysis
National Health Surveys
Nutrition Surveys
original-article
Pasta
Portugal
Potatoes
Proteins
Public Health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Rice
Sex Distribution
Surveys and Questionnaires
traditional foods
Trends
Vegetables
women
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Summary:Objective: To assess trends of food intake in Portugal. Design: Analysis of three cross-sectional studies: 1987, 1995-1996 and 1998-1999. Setting: Representative samples of free-living individuals. Subjects: 64 734 men and 71 282 women. Interventions: Food intake was assessed by questionnaires inquiring the number of meals and which foodstuffs (fish, meat, milk, rice/pasta/potatoes, soup, vegetables and fruit) had been consumed the day before. Results: Age-adjusted average number of meals decreased from 3.3 +/- 0.1 in 1987 to 2.9 +/-0.1 in 1998-1999 in both genders (P
ISSN:0954-3007
1476-5640
DOI:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602472