Comparison of Dietary Intakes of Husbands and Wives

Exploring Dietary Sacrifice in Intimate Relationships for Couples with Celiac Disease

“…If the couple has been cohabitating, this phenomenon has likely been triggered through the simple acts of shopping for groceries and cooking together (e.g., Kemmer, Anderson, & Marshall, 1998;Markey, Markey, & Birch, 2001;Ristovski-Slijepcevic & Chapman, 2005). As such, studies conducted in multiple countries reveal that live-in romantic partners typically display the same or similar habits in both nutrient intake and types of foods consumed (e.g., Louk, Schafer, Schafer, & Keith, 1999;Patterson, Sallis, Nader, Kaplan, Rupp, Atkins, & Senn, 1989).…”

“…As such, cohabitation is where the true convergence of eating behaviors has been found to occur in relationships (e.g., Kemmer, Anderson, & Marshall, 1998;Markey, Markey, & Birch, 2001;Ristovski-Slijepcevic & Chapman, 2005). In fact, cross-sectional studies conducted across multiple cultures have revealed that cohabitating partners and spouses display nearly the same behaviors in both nutrient intake and types of foods consumed (e.g., Louk, Schafer, Schafer, & Keith, 1999;Patterson, Sallis, Nader, Kaplan, Rupp, Atkins, & Senn, 1989), and that partners tend to reflect greater long-term food concordance than friends or siblings (Pachucki, Jacques, & Christakis, 2011).…”

Relationships between dietary intakes of children and their parents: a cross‐sectional, secondary analysis of families participating in the Family Diet Quality Study

“…However, whether the influence or the mother or father is stronger for sons versus daughters has not been comprehensively assessed in the literature to date. In addition, existing research has identified associations between spouses for various nutrients (Louk et al ., ) and dietary patterns (Hannon et al ., ; Lioret et al ., ). However, this relationship may vary depending on the family life stage and the individual's BMI (Louk et al ., ).…”

Inter-relationships of nutrient intakes for urban Chinese spouses in Taiwan

“…However, after further investigation, they concluded that moderated correlation could be found for nutrient intake between husbands and wives as a group, but the correspondence within the husband Á/wife pair was not consistent for any nutrient (Lee & Kolonel, 1982). Most recently, a study by Louk and coworkers in 1999 used the Block semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire administrated to 151 American couples and compared the dietary intakes of husbands and wives (Louk et al ., 1999). The investigators performed intraclass correlation coefficients for the energy-adjusted nutrient intakes and found the magnitude was from 0.04 for iron intake to 0.38 for saturated fat intake between husbands and wives.…”