The changing structure of diets in the European Union in relation to healthy eating guidelines

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 584-595

  Schmidhuber, Josef ^a   Traill, W Bruce ^b  

^a FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convergence; Diets; Health economics; Obesity

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; SATURATED FATTY ACID; SUGAR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; EATING HABIT; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CATERING SERVICE; CHOLESTEROL INTAKE; FAT INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD ANALYSIS; FRUIT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; OBESITY; VEGETABLE;

CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; DIET; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DIETARY FATS; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD HABITS; FOOD SUPPLY; FRUIT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITIVE VALUE; OBESITY; VEGETABLES;

EID: 33846846273     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2005844     Document Type: Article

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