Global dietary quality in 185 countries from 1990 to 2018 show wide differences by nation, age, education, and urbanicity.

ABSTRACT: Evidence on what people eat globally is limited in scope and rigour, especially as it relates to children and adolescents. This impairs target setting and investment in evidence-based actions to support healthy sustainable diets. Here we quantified global, regional and national dietary patterns among children and adults, by age group, sex, education and urbanicity, across 185 countries between 1990 and 2018, on the basis of data from the Global Dietary Database project. Our primary measure was the Alternative Healthy Eating Index, a validated score of diet quality; Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension and Mediterranean Diet Score patterns were secondarily assessed. Dietary quality is generally modest worldwide. In 2018, the mean global Alternative Healthy Eating Index score was 40.3, ra

SUBMITTER: Miller V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10277807 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature