Obesity Abstracts

Background: Evidence suggests that the diet quality of children consuming school meals tends to be better than that of children consuming packed lunches or food brought from outside school. This study aims to investigate the association between the types of lunch consumed in a school day and diet quality of UK adolescents.Methods: 2118 British adolescents were included from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (Years 1–8). All participants were ag...

Background: Assessing dietary intake is fundamental in providing quantification of consumed nutrients, which helps in evaluating nutritional status. Gulf countries, including Kuwait, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Saudi Arabia, have been reported to have the highest prevalence of overweight and obesity in the world. However, food composition data for Middle-Eastern foods are limited, which emphasises the need for a comprehensive food composition database.<p class="abstext...