The dietary variety score: Assessing diet quality in healthy young and older adults

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 266-271

  Drewnowski, Adam ^a,c   Henderson, Susan Ahlstrom ^a   Driscoll, Alissa ^a   Rolls, Barbara J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Human Nutrition Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; EATING HABIT; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; SODIUM INTAKE; VITAMIN INTAKE;

EID: 0031057245     PISSN: 00028223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8223(97)00070-9     Document Type: Article

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