Evaluation of the Proximity of Singaporean Children's Dietary Habits to Food-Based Dietary Guidelines.

ABSTRACT: Dietary habits in children may not only impact current health status but could also shape future, lifelong dietary choices. Dietary intake data in Singaporean children are limited. The current study aimed to define the overall diet quality of Singaporean children using an existing cross-sectional dataset and to consider how demographic factors (i.e., body mass index (BMI) status, ethnicity, age, and sex) were associated with these scores. Existing, cross-sectional dietary data (n = 561 children aged 6-12 years, collected in 2014-2015) from duplicate 24-h recalls were assessed for diet quality using an index based on the Singaporean Health Promotion Board dietary guidelines. Total diet quality scores were calculated from ten different components (frequencies of rice and alternatives, whole

SUBMITTER: Brownlee IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6893683 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature