Exploring Biases of the Healthy Eating Index and Alternative Healthy Eating Index When Scoring Low-Carbohydrate and Low-Fat Diets.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Healthy Eating Index 2010 (HEI-2010) and Alternative Healthy Eating Index 2010 (AHEI-2010) are commonly used to measure dietary quality in research settings. Neither index is designed specifically to compare diet quality between low-carbohydrate (LC) and low-fat (LF) diets. It is unknown whether biases exist in making these comparisons.

Objective

The aim was to determine whether HEI-2010 and AHEI-2010 contain biases when scoring LC and LF diets.

Design

Secondary analyses of the Diet Intervention Examining the Factors Interacting With Treatment Success (DIETFITS) weight loss trial were conducted. The trial was conducted in the San Francisco Bay Area of California between January 2013 and May 2016. Three approaches were used to investigate whether biases

SUBMITTER: Hauser ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11347720 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature