Relationship between attitudes towards healthy eating and dietary behaviour, lifestyle and demographic factors in a representative sample of Irish adults

Hearty, Á. P.; McCarthy, S.; Kearney, J. M.; Gibney, Michael J.

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2006.03.329

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“…In line with the findings in the present study, other studies have also shown that those with higher diet quality were more likely to be women and older (19,22) . Several studies, both cross-sectional and cohort, have found an association between higher diet quality and lower BMI (19,20,23) .…”

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Diet quality: associations with health messages included in the Danish Dietary Guidelines 2005, personal attitudes and social factors

Biltoft-Jensen

Groth

Matthiessen

et al. 2009

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To study the association between diet quality and the new health messages in the Danish Dietary Guidelines 2005, i.e. 'Eat a varied diet', 'Engage in regular physical activity' and 'Maintain a healthy body weight'. Design/setting/subjects: The study was cross-sectional, comprising a random sample of 3151 Danish adults aged 18-75 years. Dietary intake was estimated using a 7 d pre-coded food diary. Information on social background, leisure-time physical activity, height, body weight and intention to eat healthily was obtained by in-person interviews. Logistic regression models were used to explore the independent effects of energy intake, leisure-time physical activity, food variety, BMI, age, gender, education, household income, location of residence and intention to eat healthily on the likelihood to have high diet quality measured by an index based on the intake of dietary fibre and saturated fat. Results: Greater food variety (OR 5 1?32 for women, 1?13 for men), high leisuretime physical activity (OR 5 2?20 for women, 1?91 for men), frequent intentions to eat healthily (OR 5 8?19 for women, 5?40 for men) and low energy intake (OR 5 0?78 for women, 0?85 for men) were significantly associated with high diet quality. For women education was positively associated with diet quality. The study did not demonstrate any association between BMI and diet quality. Conclusion: The health behaviours 'Eat a varied diet' and 'Engage in regular physical activity' were positively associated with healthy eating. The dietary habits reported were strongly influenced by personal intentions. Thus, the biggest challenge for public health nutritionists will be to reach non-compliers who seldom have intentions to eat healthily.

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Diet quality: associations with health messages included in the Danish Dietary Guidelines 2005, personal attitudes and social factors

Biltoft-Jensen

Groth

Matthiessen

et al. 2009

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“…Higher proportions of those interested in taking part in the Food4Me study [63.0 % (n = 3,503) of the screened volunteers] and of the randomised participants [60.9 % (n = 979)] were female. These results confirm findings from previous web-based nutritional interventions (Kodama et al 2012), and from conventional dietary intervention studies (French et al 1994;Hearty et al 2007;Sabinsky et al 2007), showing that females are more likely to volunteer for nutritionrelated research studies. Our study recruited participants from every decade of adult life, from teens to seventies: 1.7 % of randomised participants were aged \20 years, 28.3 % aged 20-29 years, 22.4 % aged 30-39 years, 21.4 % aged 40-49 years, 18.8 % aged 50-59 years, 6.7 % aged 60-69 years and 0.6 % aged [70 years.…”

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Design and baseline characteristics of the Food4Me study: a web-based randomised controlled trial of personalised nutrition in seven European countries

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Improving lifestyle behaviours has considerable potential for reducing the global burden of non-communicable diseases, promoting better health across the lifecourse and increasing well-being. However, realising this potential will require the development, testing and implementation of much more effective behaviour change interventions than are used conventionally. Therefore, the aim of this study was to conduct a multi-centre, web-based, proof-of-principle study of personalised nutrition (PN) to determine whether providing more personalised dietary advice leads to greater improvements in eating patterns and health outcomes compared to conventional populationbased advice. A total of 5,562 volunteers were screened across seven European countries; the first 1,607 participants who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were recruited into the trial. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the following intervention groups for a 6-month period: Level 0-control group-receiving conventional, non-PN advice; Level 1-receiving PN advice based on dietary intake data alone; Level 2-receiving PN advice based on dietary On behalf of the Food4Me study. 123Genes Nutr (2015) 10:450 DOI 10.1007/s12263-014-0450-2 intake and phenotypic data; and Level 3-receiving PN advice based on dietary intake, phenotypic and genotypic data. A total of 1,607 participants had a mean age of 39.8 years (ranging from 18 to 79 years). Of these participants, 60.9 % were women and 96.7 % were from white-European background. The mean BMI for all randomised participants was 25.5 kg m -2 , and 44.8 % of the participants had a BMI C 25.0 kg m -2 . Food4Me is the first large multi-centre RCT of web-based PN. The main outcomes from the Food4Me study will be submitted for publication during 2015.

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“…It is essential that all the interventions aiming at promotion of healthy eating behaviour also give prime importance to taste preferences and to the pleasure of eating (17) . A gender difference in dietary attitudes is well documented (14,(19)(20)(21)26,(29)(30)(31) . Furthermore, in the present study, mothers scored higher than fathers in both healthrelated and hedonic subscales.…”

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Parental eating attitudes and indicators of healthy eating in a longitudinal randomized dietary intervention trial (the STRIP study)

Talvia

Rásänen

Lagström

et al. 2011

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Objective: To examine the effects of child-oriented dietary intervention on parental eating attitudes and dietary behaviour. Design: In the prospective, randomized Special Turku Coronary Risk Factor Intervention Project for Children (the STRIP study), a cohort of Finnish families took part in a nutritional intervention trial focused on the quality of their children's fat intake since the age of 8 months. Health-related and hedonic eating attitudes of the parents were measured after 10 years of dietary intervention using a validated Health and Taste Attitude Scales (HTAS) questionnaire (n 660). Parents' eating behaviour was studied using a 1 d food record (n 491). Setting: Finland. Subjects: Mothers and fathers (n 660) of the STRIP children. Results: The parents of the intervention families had a higher level of interest in healthy eating compared with control parents. The interest in natural products or hedonic eating attitudes did not differ between the groups. The parents' general health interest was associated with low saturated fat intake, fruit and vegetable consumption, fibre intake and seeking pleasure in eating, but it was not associated with BMI. The intervention also improved the quality of dietary fat among parents with the lowest level of interest in healthy eating. Conclusions: Parents' general health interest was associated with regular dietary counselling as well as with healthier food choice behaviour. However, the dietary intervention that focused especially on the quality of the child's fat intake also enhanced specific changes in the family's fat consumption without a high level of interest in healthy eating.

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Relationship between attitudes towards healthy eating and dietary behaviour, lifestyle and demographic factors in a representative sample of Irish adults

Cited by 177 publications

References 36 publications

Diet quality: associations with health messages included in the Danish Dietary Guidelines 2005, personal attitudes and social factors

Diet quality: associations with health messages included in the Danish Dietary Guidelines 2005, personal attitudes and social factors

Design and baseline characteristics of the Food4Me study: a web-based randomised controlled trial of personalised nutrition in seven European countries

Parental eating attitudes and indicators of healthy eating in a longitudinal randomized dietary intervention trial (the STRIP study)

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