Associations of food group and nutrient intake, diet quality, and meal sizes between adults and children in the same household: a cross-sectional analysis of U.S. households

• Published in: Nutrition journal Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 131 - 462
• Main Authors: Zuercher, Jennifer L, Wagstaff, David A, Kranz, Sibylle
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 28.11.2011; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; breakfast; Child; child nutrition; Child, Preschool; children; Conferences, meetings and seminars; Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals; Cross-Sectional Studies; Diet; diet quality; Diet Surveys; dinner; eating behavior; Energy Intake; Family Characteristics; fathers; Feeding Behavior; Female; Food; food consumption; food groups; Food habits; food intake; Households; Humans; ingestion; linear models; Logistic Models; logit analysis; lunch; Male; mothers; nutrient density; nutrient intake; nutrients; Nutrition; nutrition survey; nutritional adequacy; Nutritive Value; odds ratio; Studies; Trade and professional associations; United States; United States

One might assume that individuals living in the same household have similar dietary intakes of food groups and nutrients. However, the manner in which an adult's dietary intake affects children's food consumption, diet quality (defined as meeting intake recommendations), and meal sizes is...