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A working group has been
established to study dietary patterns with the following objectives:
- To analyse dietary patterns based
on both the individual dietary data from the recruitment questionnaire
and also from the 24 hour diet recall data.
- Methodological analyses to evaluate
the relative reliability of the 24 hour diet recall calibration
measurements.
Interests include work specifically
on: fruit and vegetables, dairy products, cereal and cereal products,
meat, fish, dietary fats, soya products, alcohol and seasonal and weekday
variations.
Data from EPIC-SOFT (see
Methodological issues)
provided extremely detailed information on usual
diet in individual countries. The results of extensive statistical analyses
on food consumption patterns show very different dietary patterns between
countries (see figures below). For instance, the Italian diet is dominated
by plant foods whilst Germany has a much higher consumption of potatoes,
animal products and sweetened foods.
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