Regularity of Breakfast Consumption and Diet: Insights from National Adult Nutrition Survey.

ABSTRACT: Breakfast is considered to be one of the most important meals of the day. Its omission has been reported to be associated with increased disease risk, such as obesity, diabetes, and coronary heart disease, as well as unhealthy lifestyle and lower dietary quality. Using data from the National Adult Nutrition Survey (NANS)-a food consumption survey conducted among 1500 Irish men and women over 18 years of age, residing in the Republic of Ireland at the time the survey was conducted-we aimed to characterize breakfast regularity, identify dietary patterns associated with regular breakfast consumption, and assess the nutritional quality of such dietary patterns, using the nutrient-rich food index score NRF9.3. We determined two breakfast regularity categories and assessed dietary quality, by me

SUBMITTER: Uzhova I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6267347 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature