Healthy eating index and different fruit dietary habits in Slovak adult female

Katarí­Na Fatrcová-Šramková,Tünde Jurí­Ková,Marianna Schwarzová

doi:10.5219/1010

Abstract

The healthy index is a tool for evaluation of nutrition recommendation aimed at prevention of chronic diseases. A lot of studies have been devoted to HEI of different aged groups of people but dates about Slovak population have been still missed. The goal of the study was to evaluate the Healthy Eating Index (HEI) in nutrition of adult female, determine their components in relation of parameters of anthropometry and body composition. Secondly, the research work was also aimed at the comparison of partial score HEI among groups of female with different fruit intake. Daily nutrition was evaluated by 24 hours dietary recalls. In set of female (average age 31.1 ±9.1 years) the average HEI index reached up 53.0 ±8.8 points in accord with medium degree of diet, it means dietary improvement has been highly recommended. In respect of all assayed components of index the best results achieved the variety of diet (8.8 ±1.3 points) and the worst the natrium intake (0.7 ±2.0 points). The average score for the individual components pointed to neccesary of increase in the grain intake and vegetable, on the other hand the intake of cholesterol, saturated fats and especially natrium should be decreased. The differences between groups with various intake of fruit (with recommended intake and insufficient intake) in the rest 9 components have not been proved as significant. The occurrence of risk values of body index, body fats determined by bioelectric impedance and android risk based on circumference of hips can not be considered between groups as significant. Average HEI has been in significance correlation with age (r = 0.240; p <0.05), circumference of hips (r = 0.2312; p <0.05) and body weight r = 0.1748; p <0.05). Future studies have been needed to evaluate diet according to the HEI in different groups of population in Slovakia.

Highlights

Nutritional factors and factors of life style have been significantly contributed to prevalence of chronic diseases
The results showed that only 10% nutrition of american population could be considered as good, 16% bad and the rest of american nutrition required to be improved
Of the first 5 components of the Healthy Eating Index (HEI), the most favourable group was represented by fruit and fruit products (7.2 ±3.7 points)

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Introduction

Nutritional factors and factors of life style have been significantly contributed to prevalence of chronic diseases. Healthy Eating Index (HEI) has been implemented as measure of food quality of USDA (United States Department of Agriculture). USDA has been aimed at improvement of health with the diet recommendations for American population (Guo et al, 2004). It has been introduced as a key tool to evaluate the extent to which Americans are following the dietary recommendations for safety and healthy food (Willett and Skerrett, 2005). HEI give general image about type and quantity of diet of individuals and their compliance with the specific nutrition recommendations for nutrients and food groups (Gibson, 2005)

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