title: Characterizing food intake patterns of American adults.
abstract: Food-pattern analysis provides a way to examine diets in a multidimensional context. This study examined the diets of 8181 adults in the 1989-1991 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals and evaluated whether they met the federal recommendations for each of five food groups. The sample was partitioned among 32 different food-intake patterns, six of which represented 44% of the population. Nutrient profiles associated with each of the patterns indicated that failure to meet one or more of the food-group recommendations was associated with nutrient inadequacy, macronutrient imbalance, or both. A reexamination of the data to account for low energy reporters did not alter these findings. The pattern of meeting all five of the food-group recommendations was among the least common, accounting for only 1% of adults' intakes.
authors.affiliation: National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA. sk52r@nih.gov
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Krebs-Smith
authors.forename: L E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Cleveland
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ballard-Barbash
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Kahle
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D004032:Diet; D004034:Diet Surveys; D002149:Energy Intake; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D044465:White People