Selecting a healthy diet score: Lessons from a study of diet and health in early old age (the Boyd Orr cohort)

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 321-326

  Maynard, M ^a   Ness, A R ^b   Abraham, L ^c   Blane, D ^d   Bates, C ^e   Gunnell, D J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Outcomes Research   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e MRC HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dietary patterns; Healthy diet score

Indexed keywords

SATURATED FATTY ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FRUIT; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTHY DIET INDICATOR; HEALTHY DIET SCORE; HUMAN; MALE; MEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; VEGETABLE;

AGED; DIET; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FRUIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITION POLICY; VEGETABLES;

EID: 18844372802     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2004679     Document Type: Article

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