Abstract
A Mediterranean diet pattern is cardioprotective and positively correlated with lower chronic disease risk. Certain vulnerable populations would benefit greatly from a Mediterranean diet to reduce cardiovascular disease risk, and clinical diet intervention research typically uses diet recall questionnaires. This type of dietary tracking leads to assumptions and not an actual ability to accurately track Mediterranean diet adherence in the short-term.
Highlights
Evidence suggests that diet plays a pivotal role to maintaining health, so much so that a healthy diet has been linked to outcomes involved in reducing disease risk
Objective: the purpose of this study is to test the validity of a new Mediterranean diet scoring system (MDSS) which scores diets on a weekly basis based on serving numbers within food groups
We evaluated the validity of this new MDSS to another well-established system
Summary
Evidence suggests that diet plays a pivotal role to maintaining health, so much so that a healthy diet has been linked to outcomes involved in reducing disease risk. What is lacking is a Mediterranean diet scoring system (MDSS) designed to acutely measure an individual’s Mediterranean diet adherence over short-term. A scoring system of this sort would greatly improve the ability to track diet adherence during a clinical trial, diet intervention, or any short-term study that requires accurate measurement of diet adherence. Certain vulnerable populations would benefit greatly from a Mediterranean diet to reduce cardiovascular disease risk, and clinical diet intervention research typically uses diet recall questionnaires. This type of dietary tracking leads to assumptions and not an actual ability to accurately track Mediterranean diet adherence in the short-term
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