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Dietary behaviours and sociocultural demographics in Northern Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

M. E. Barker ,
S. I. McClean ,
K. A. Thompson  and
N. G. Reid
M. E. Barker
Affiliation:
Centre for Applied Health Studies, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland BT52 ISA
S. I. McClean
Affiliation:
Centre for Applied Health Studies, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland BT52 ISA
K. A. Thompson
Affiliation:
Centre for Applied Health Studies, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland BT52 ISA
N. G. Reid
Affiliation:
Centre for Applied Health Studies, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland BT52 ISA
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Abstract

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Subjects aged 16–64 years (592; 258 men and 334 women), randomly selected from the population of Northern Ireland, kept a 7 d weighed record of all food and drink consumed. Social, personal and anthropometric data were also collected. From the weighed records food consumption was described in terms of forty-one food groups. Using principal components analysis, four distinct dietary patterns were generated which were identified as a traditional diet, a cosmopolitan diet, a convenience diet and a ‘meat and two veg’ diet. These dietary patterns were then correlated with sociocultural, lifestyle and anthropometric variables. It is clear that dietary behaviour is influenced by a number of inter-related sociocultural demographics and that identifiable population groups in Northern Ireland have different dietary behaviours.

Keywords

Weighed intakeDietary patternsSociocultural demographicsNorthern Ireland
Type
Nutritient Intakes: Models and Surveys
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 64 , Issue 2 , September 1990 , pp. 319 - 329
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1990

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