Publication series : Functional Food - Improve Health through Adequate Food
Author: Maria Luisa Poyatos Guerrero and Fernando Pérez-Rodríguez
Publisher: IntechOpen
Publication year: 2017
E-ISBN: INT6626369807
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789535134398
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9789535134404
Subject: R3 Basic Medical
Keyword: 基础医学
Language: ENG
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Diet Quality Indices for Nutrition Assessment: Types and Applications
Description
According to the World Health Organization, the proportion of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) burden is foreseen to increase to 57% in 2020. Consumption patterns have a positive effect on healthy growth and development during childhood and adolescence, and on health problems in adulthood. Diet quality indices are mathematical algorithms used for nutritional epidemiology, aimed at quantifying the degree of adequacy between actual intakes of nutrients or food groups within a population and the reference intakes, which are established based on scientific facts assuring an optimal state of health while preventing consumers from chronic diseases. Similarly, indexes allow to analyse dietary pattern of target population and its consumption trends. In general the terms, DQI (Diet Quality Index), HDI (Healthy Diet Indicator) and MDS (Mediterranean Diet Score), are referred to three internationally recognized diet indexes, which several indices have been adapted from. This chapter includes an extensive review of existing diet indexes, 1) providing a brief description of the most relevant ones, 2) highlighting the weaknesses and strengths and 3) defining the suitable scope of application of each index.
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