Studies of the Diet of Students at Edinburgh University

Kitchin, A. H.; Passmore, R.; Pyke, Magnus; Warnock, G. M.

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“…Davis & Scoular (1957) and Walker (1959) found no correlation between the calorie intakes and body-weights in students of both sexes. R. Passmore (personal communication) has informed us that there was no correlation in the data relating to male and female students studied by Kitchin, Passmore, Pyke & Warnock (1949). Grossman & Sloane (1955) studied eighty-seven soldiers.…”

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Height, weight and food intake in man

1961

Br J Nutr

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Certain correlations between food intake and social status, height, weight and gain of weight during pregnancy were referred to in a previous series of papers (Thomson, 1958(Thomson, ,1959a. In this paper, the same data, derived from a study of pregnant women, are used to investigate further the relationships of height and weight to diet.The most interesting conclusion is that, contrary to popular belief and the implication of physiological teaching (e.g. F.A.O. : Second Committee on Calorie Requirements, 1957), heavy people do not as a rule eat much more than light people. A review of the literature suggests that this conclusion is valid also for men and for non-pregnant women. M E T H O D SThe dietary data used here were obtained from 489 primigravidae by means of a I -week weighing-inventory survey (Widdowson, 1936). The technique used has been fully discussed and, so far as possible, validated (Thomson, 1958); any record considered by the dietitian concerned to be incomplete or unreliable was rejected. The diets were self-chosen, and no attempt was made by the obstetricians concerned to regulate the amount of weight which the subjects were gaining.All subjects were weighed at the time of the dietary survey (about the 7th month of pregnancy) and most were weighed at intervals throughout pregnancy. Weights at conception could not be assessed reliably, and for 412 out of the 489 subjects 'initial weight' has been taken as weight at the 20th week of pregnancy, by which time all of them had been measured. All weighings were on calibrated lever balances reading to 2 oz (57 g) and subjects wore only underclothes during weighing. Shoes were removed during the measurement of standing height, which was recorded to the nearest 0.25 in.(0.6 cm). Since only 10.6 yo of the 489 subjects were aged 20 years or less, incomplete growth need not be considered when interpreting the height data.Weight-for-height. The significance of a given body-weight ( W ) varies with height ( H ) . T o express weight-for-height, a mathematical index, such as H / J W , is frequently used. Examination of the properties of several such indices showed that none of them discriminates uniformly over the whole range of heights ; that is, the proportion of ' overweight ' and ' underweight' individuals depends on height as well as on the value of the index. Some calculations based on the index H / J W , given on p. 251, show that it can yield misleading results. To overcome the difficulties, we have used a procedure devised during a previous study of weight gains during pregnancy (Thomson i&

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Height, weight and food intake in man

1961

Br J Nutr

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“…The mean protein intake of the South African men was IOZ g/day. Male students in Britain were found to have a mean intake of 97-102 g (Kitchin, Passmore, Pyke & Warnock, 1949) and military cadets, of an age similar to the students, consumed a mean of 99 g (Edholm et ~l . 1955). The mean protein intake of the South African women was 71 g/day.…”

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A 5-year study of the daily food consumption of South African university students

Walker

1965

Br J Nutr

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In a preliminary report observations were made on the food consumption of a group of young South African university students comprising 136 men and 34 women (Walker, 1959). One year's class only was investigated, so variations which may have occurred from year to year could not be measured and the conclusions drawn from such a study may not have been generally applicable. Therefore, data have now been collected from five additional groups of students over the period 1959-63, and the analysis of this material forms the basis of the study now described.The original objects of undertaking this work were, first, to obtain information on the dietary habits of this student section of the population and, secondly, to compare the findings with those for similar groups of individuals elsewhere. E X P E R I M E N T A L

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“…Recording may be in terms of weights of the food eaten (Marr 1965) or in standard measures; for instance slices, spoonfuls or other descriptive comparisons (Kitchin et al 1949).…”

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Diet and Disease

Marr

1973

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine

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Studies of the Diet of Students at Edinburgh University

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Height, weight and food intake in man

Height, weight and food intake in man

A 5-year study of the daily food consumption of South African university students

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