Dietary diversity and adiposity in Chinese men and women: an analysis of four waves of cross-sectional survey data

• Published in: European journal of clinical nutrition Vol. 71; no. 4; pp. 506 - 511
• Main Authors: Tian, X, Wu, M, Zang, J, Zhu, Y, Wang, H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.04.2017; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/499; 692/700/478/174; Adipose tissue; Adipose tissues; Adiposity; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Anthropometry; Asian Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data; Asian people; Body mass; Body weight; China - epidemiology; Clinical Nutrition; Cross-Sectional Studies; Demographic aspects; Diet; Diet - adverse effects; Diet - statistics & numerical data; Dietary intake; Entropy; Epidemiology; Female; Food habits; Food intake; Health Status Disparities; Humans; Internal Medicine; Life Style; Male; Meat; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Men; Men's health; Metabolic Diseases; Methods; Middle Aged; Nutrition; Nutrition Surveys; Obesity; Obesity - epidemiology; Obesity - etiology; original-article; Overweight; Overweight - epidemiology; Overweight - etiology; Polls & surveys; Public Health; Risk factors; Social Class; Socioeconomics; Thinness - epidemiology; Thinness - etiology; Underweight; Women; Young Adult; China

Background/Objective: Increasing dietary diversity is concurrent with an increasing prevalence of adiposity in China, but the association between these variables remains ambiguous. This study reveals an association between dietary diversity and body mass (underweight, overweight and obesity) in Chin...