Background The high cardiovascular mortality in Eastern Europe has often been attributed
to poor diet, but individual-level data on nutrition in the region are generally not available …

ObjectiveOur objective in this paper is to assess diets in the European Union (EU) in relation
to the recommendations of the recent World Health Organization/Food and Agriculture …

Objective: To determine and describe the extent to which European dietary data collected in
disparate surveys can be meaningfully compared. Design: Seven independent population …

Background Between 2014 and 2015 a second National Food Consumption Survey was
conducted in Belgium in order to evaluate the habitual food consumption in the general …

The nutrient targets derived from analysis of the relation between nutrient intake and
disease prevalence or other scientific evidence, have to be translated into food-based …

ObjectiveTo evaluate the gap between food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG) and the usual
food consumption in Belgium. Design and settingInformation on food intake was collected …

From a public health perspective, determinants of diets are crucial to identify, but they
remain unclear in Switzerland. Hence, we sought to define current dietary patterns and their …

Background The need to promote a healthy diet to curb the current obesity epidemic has
today been recognized by most countries. A prerequisite for planning and evaluating …

Purpose Public health policies and actions increasingly acknowledge the climate burden of
food consumption. The aim of this study is to describe dietary intakes across four European …

Objective: To describe the dietary patterns of 10 European countries and their socio-
demographic determinants, using the comparable between-countries DAFNE data. Design …