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Women With Healthy Diet Eat More And Greater Variety Of Fruits.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
2001 OCT 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
Women who eat more and a greater variety of fruit have healthier diets, researchers say.
Because overall dietary patterns may provide better indicators than single nutrients of the role played by diet in chronic disease, the Healthy Eating Index (HEI) was developed in order to measure individual compliance to the dietary guidelines set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
In the September 2001 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers determined the HEI scores of a group of middle-age women. They correlated the HEI scores with plasma concentrations of selected nutrients and with other life factors.
Conducted at the Loma Linda Medical Center, the research involved 340 women averaging 50 years old, of whom 172 were recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Three-day dietary records that included one weekend day and plasma samples were collected from all the women. The HEI score is comprised of 10 points possible for the recommended servings of grains, vegetables, fruit, milk and meat, as well as 10 points possible for dietary limitations of total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium, and a possible 10 points for dietary variety.
The dietary intakes reported by the breast cancer patients did not differ significantly from that of the control goup. The mean HEI score for the entire group was 77.3 points out of a possible 100, though the ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Women With Healthy Diet Eat More And Greater Variety Of Fruits.(Brief...