Development of a general nutrition knowledge questionnaire for adults
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A newly-designed questionnaire intended to give a wide-reaching assessment of the nutritional knowledge of UK adults is divided into five main sections: awareness of dietary recommendations, the understanding of terms, awareness of diet-disease associations, knowledge of food sources related to dietary advice and the use of dietary information to make dietary choices. Several demographic questions were included in the survey to characterize respondents. The issues covered by the questionnaire form the basis for the main factors relating knowledge to dietary behaviour, including whether people know what current expert dietary recommendations are.
Publication Name: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-3007
Year: 1999
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Paleolithic nutrition revisited: a twelve-year retrospective on its nature and implications
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The evolution of nutritional requirements and dietary practices was traced back to the period of Paleolithic humans up to the present. It was documented that in some aspects, such as reduced intake of saturated fat and preference for physical activity over voluntary reduction in energy intake as a way of increasing energy expenditure, the nutritional experience of humans during evolution parallels and supports the current dietary recommendations. Paleolithic and current nutrition, nevertheless present a number of inconsistencies which provide areas for further investigation.
Publication Name: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-3007
Year: 1997
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Fuzzy sets and fuzzy decision making in nutrition
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Nutrient intake could be analyzed using fuzzy decision making. Nutrient intake recommendations are represented as fuzzy sets to evaluate each nutrient intake. Findings revealed that fuzzy decision making can optimize and simplify nutrition education by making small changes in food selection. The harmonic minimum operator was applied to the fuzzy sets of all nutrients which allows the fuzzy value of a specific nutrient to become a total value. Several points needed for the construction of the fuzzy sets were mentioned.
Publication Name: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-3007
Year: 1997
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