- Title
- Disparities exist between the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating and the dietary intakes of young children aged 2 to 3 years
- Creator
- Chai, Li K.; Macdonald-Wicks, Lesley; Hure, Alexis J.; Burrows, Tracy L.; Blumfield, Michelle L.; Smith, Roger; Collins, Clare E.
- Relation
- Nutrition & Dietetics Vol. 73, Issue 4, p. 312-320
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1747-0080.12203
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Aim: To compare dietary intakes of young children to the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating (AGHE) and Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs). Methods: Dietary intakes of 54 children (50% girls) aged two to three years (mean 2.7 years) from the Women and Their Children’s Health (WATCH) study were reported by mothers using a validated 120-item food frequency questionnaire. Daily consumption of AGHE food group servings, macronutrients, and micronutrients were compared to the AGHE and NRVs using t-test with significance set at P < 0.05. Results: No child achieved all AGHE targets, with the majority consuming less breads/cereals (1.9 vs 4.0 servings/ day), vegetables (1.3 vs 2.5), and meat/alternatives (0.7 vs 1.0), all P < 0.0001. Adequate servings were observed for dairy (2.2 vs 1.5) and fruit (1.3 vs 1.0). Macronutrients were within recommended ranges, although 96% exceeded saturated fatty acid recommendations. Children who met selected NRVs consumed more fruit (1.4 vs 1.0; P < 0.0086), dairy (2.2 vs 1.5; P < 0.0001) and discretionary foods (2.6 vs ≤1.0; P < 0.0001) but less breads/cereals (2.0 vs 4.0; P < 0.0001) and vegetables (1.3 vs 2.5; P < 0.0001) servings, compared to the AGHE recommended servings. Conclusions: Child dietary intakes did not align with AGHE, while adequate nutrient profiles were achieved by various dietary patterns. Future studies involving data from larger, representative samples of children are warranted.
- Subject
- dietary intake; NRVs; children; nutritional status; Australian Guide to Healthy Eating
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1321647
- Identifier
- uon:24422
- Identifier
- ISSN:1446-6368
- Rights
- This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Chai, L. K., Macdonald-Wicks, L., Hure, A. J., Burrows, T. L., Blumfield, M. L., Smith, R. and Collins, C. E. (2016), Disparities exist between the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating and the dietary intakes of young children aged two to three years. Nutrition & Dietetics, 73: 312–320, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1747-0080.12203. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
- Language
- eng
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