title: Major Dietary Patterns among Female Adolescent Girls of Talaat Intelligent Guidance School, Tabriz, Iran.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Increasingly nutritional experts express the necessity of research on dietary patterns to identify numerous modifiable risk factors of disease. This study was conducted to identify major dietary patterns among adolescent girls in Talaat intelligent guidance school, Tabriz, Iran.
  
  
  METHODS
  Among 257 adolescent girls aged 11-15 years, usual dietary intakes were assessed using a 162-item semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ). Factor analysis was used to identify major dietary patterns in this Turkish population.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We identified 6 major dietary patterns:(1) Western pattern high in pizza, meats and fruit juice; (2) Sweat junk foods pattern high in dried fruits, jams, honey and sugar; (3) Asian pattern high in legumes, potato and other vegetables; (4) Salty junk foods pattern high in carrot, puffs and potato chips and (6) Iranian traditional dietary pattern high in hydrogenated fats, garlic and broth.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our findings suggested that among the 6 major dietary patterns, Asian-like food was the healthiest one.
authors.affiliation: Center for Food Sciences and Nutrition, Department of Nutrition and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alizadeh
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mohtadinia
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pourghasem-Gargari
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Esmaillzadeh