title: Food consumption patterns in the 1960s in seven countries.
abstract: At the end of the 1950s the Seven Countries Study was designed to investigate the relations between diet and cardiovascular diseases. Sixteen cohorts were selected in Finland, Greece, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, United States, and Yugoslavia. During the 1960s food consumption data were collected from random samples of these cohorts by use of the record method. In Finland the intake of milk, potatoes, edible fats, and sugar products was very high. A similar but lower intake pattern was observed in The Netherlands. Fruit, meat, and pastry consumption was high in the United States; cereal and alcoholic drink consumption was high in Italy; and bread consumption high in Yugoslavians except for those in Belgrade. In Greece the intake of olive oil and fruit was high and the Japanese cohorts were characterized by a high consumption of fish, rice, and soy products. These differences in food consumption patterns have lessened during the past 25 y.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kromhout
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Keys
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Aravanis
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Buzina
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fidanza
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Giampaoli
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jansen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Menotti
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nedeljkovic
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pekkarinen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004032:Diet; D004034:Diet Surveys; D004435:Eating; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005387:Finland; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D014481:United States; D015022:Yugoslavia