Creator:

Statistics Canada

Geography:

North America > Canada

Categories:

• Nutrition, Obesity, and Body Mass

Tags:

• diet
• dietary habits
• eating
• food intake
• fruit
• nutrition
• nutrition surveys
• vegetables

Date:

2009

URL:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2009003/article/10914-eng.pdf

Annotation:

In addition to recommendations about the consumption of specifi c foods and nutrients, a measure of overall diet quality is useful. Over the years, a number of countries, but not Canada, have developed indexes to evaluate diet quality.  The American Healthy Eating Index was adapted to conform to recommendations in Canada's Food Guide. Data from 33,664 respondents to the 2004 Canadian Community Health Survey-Nutrition were used. Usual index scores were calculated with the Software for Intake Distribution Estimation program. Multiple linear regression models were used to examine associations between index scores and various characteristics, particularly the frequency of vegetable and fruit consumption.