Designing healthier and acceptable diets using data envelopment analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this research is to propose methodology that can be used to benchmark current diets based on their nutrient intakes and to provide guidelines for improving less healthy diets in a way that is acceptable for the studied population.

Design

We discuss important limitations of current diet models that use optimisation techniques to design healthier and acceptable diets. We illustrate how data envelopment analysis could be used to overcome such limitations, and we describe mathematical models that can be used to calculate not only healthier but also acceptable diets.

Setting

We used data from the Nutrition Questionnaires plus dataset of habitual diets of a general population of adult men and women in The Netherlands (n 1735).

Participants

SUBMITTER: Kanellopoulos A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11374569 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature