Are dietary patterns the best way to make nutrition recommendations for chronic disease prevention? Can we identify culture-specific healthful dietary patterns among diverse populations undergoing nutrition transitions? / Les habitudes alimentaires constituent-elles la meilleure façon de formuler des recommandations nutritionnelles dans la prévention de maladies chroniques? Peut-on établir des habitudes alimentaires saines dans les systèmes culturels de populations diversifiées vivant une transition nutritionnelle?

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 193
BMJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. k2396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias B Schulze ◽  
Miguel A Martínez-González ◽  
Teresa T Fung ◽  
Alice H Lichtenstein ◽  
Nita G Forouhi

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Tarasuk

The effective promotion of healthy dietary patterns rests on a supportive policy environment. Given the vast, ever-expanding selection of foods in Canadian supermarkets and the proliferation of nutrition-related food marketing, more effective communication tools are needed to help consumers understand food selections within the context of a total diet. In addition, policy actions at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels are needed to lift economic and geographic barriers to food access for specific population subgroups.


2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha L. Slattery

Dietary patterns have been used to summarize diet consumption and to evaluate how diet is associated with diseases in epidemiological research. However, there are many issues surrounding both the use and interpretation of dietary patterns. These issues include how to collect, summarize, and create dietary patterns, as well as how to interpret the results. Because labels are given arbitrarily to dietary patterns to help characterize the pattern in a meaningful way, it is often not clear from the literature as to the consistency of results among studies. Additionally, the utilization of dietary patterns as a tool for public health messages is a topic that is unresolved. These issues are discussed in this paper.


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