title: Dietary Patterns of a Group of Children, Mothers and Grandmothers.
abstract: Information regarding the dietary patterns of life cycle cohorts may reveal the usefulness of nutrition education messages. We described the dietary patterns of a convenience sample of three life stages, children, mothers and grandmothers and determined differences between adjacent age cohorts, for per cent of energy as carbohydrate, fat and protein, number of servings from food groups and intake of key nutrients associated with food groups. Four days of dietary intake data were available for 76 children (8.8 - 12.9 years), 59 premenopausal females, 31 - 52 years (mothers) and 19 postmenopausal females, 58 - 83 years (grandmothers). The greatest difference was for per cent of energy as carbohydrate (mean SD), for which the value for mothers (48 7) was significantly lower than that for the children (53 5), while the grandmothers' intake (52 6) was similar to that of the children. Intake of Vegetables and Fruit also varied at 3.9 2 servings per day for children, 5.2 2 for mothers and 7.4 3 for grandmothers. The mothers' number of servings of Fats and Oils was significantly higher than that of the children and grandmothers, while children had the highest number of servings of Sweets and Desserts. Levels of nutrient intakes corresponded to the number of servings from major source food groups for each of the life-stage groups.
authors.affiliation: College of Physical Education, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK.
authors.forename: BETTE
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lemke
authors.forename: SUSAN
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Whiting
authors.forename: HEATHER
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: McKay