Diet quality on meatless days: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2007-2012.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare diet quality scores between adult non-meat eaters and meat eaters, and to compare the consumption of diet components across quintiles of diet quality.

Design

Cross-sectional analysis. The Healthy Eating Index-2010 (HEI-2010) and Alternative Healthy Eating Index-2010 (AHEI-2010) were used to assess mean diet quality. Differences in consumption of diet components between quintiles of diet quality were tested using post hoc Wald tests and z tests.

Setting

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2007-2012.

Subjects

The sample consisted of 16810 respondents aged≥18 years, including 280 individuals who reported not consuming meat, poultry, game birds or seafood on two non-consecutive days of dietary recall. Dietary data wer

SUBMITTER: Conrad Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10261642 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature