Publications by authors named "Sujata Dixit-Joshi"
Background: Although research shows that children from households with low incomes have diet quality that is better during the school year vs the summer, very little research exists around the nutritional quality of summer meals available to children through the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) summer meals programs.
Objective: The objective was to examine the extent to which summer meals contributed to meeting the daily nutritional goals from the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) for 9- to 13-year-olds. The current study also analyzed the types of food offered and the top food sources of energy and nutrients in summer lunches.
Objective: To examine whether duration of participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and early feeding practices are associated with the likelihood of meeting the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) recommendation for added sugars (AS) at age 3 years.
Methods: Using data from the WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2 (WIC ITFPS-2), logistic regression assessed associations between WIC participation patterns, early feeding practices, and whether 3-year-olds met the AS recommendation.
Results: Children introduced to sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in their first year were about half (adjusted odds ratio, 0.
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), State governments, and school districts took unprecedented steps to mitigate the pandemic's impact on students' nutrition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Evaluate the impact of the Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) grant program on self-reported fruit and vegetable (FV) expenditures.
Design: Pre-post quasi-experimental study design.
Setting: Farmers markets and grocery stores in states with FINI projects.
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to evaluate how successfully a longitudinal diet study could recruit and retain participants from varied backgrounds across the U.S., focusing on demographic differences in response rates during recruitment and retention phases.
- - Researchers invited 12,860 adults aged 20-70 from diverse health systems, with a 9% overall rate of accessing the study website; enrollment was high among those who accessed it, but men and minorities showed lower participation rates.
- - The findings indicated that while recruitment posed challenges, once participants were enrolled, a majority were able to complete the dietary recalls, suggesting that the study methods could be effective for collecting dietary data from diverse populations.
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- - The study compared the web-based Automated Self-Administered 24-Hour Recall (ASA24) with the traditional interviewer-administered Automated Multiple-Pass Method (AMPM) to see if ASA24 could be a feasible alternative for collecting dietary data in large studies.
- - In a trial involving 1,081 adults from diverse backgrounds, results showed that ASA24 and AMPM reported similar average energy intakes, with 87% of analyzed nutrients showing equivalence.
- - Participants preferred ASA24, which also resulted in lower dropout rates compared to AMPM, indicating that ASA24 could efficiently gather high-quality dietary information more affordably.
Studies of diet and disease risk in India and among other Asian-Indian populations are hindered by the need for a comprehensive dietary assessment tool to capture data on the wide variety of food and nutrient intakes across different regions and ethnic groups. The nutritional component of the India Health Study, a multicentre pilot cohort study, included 3908 men and women, aged 35-69 years, residing in three regions of India (New Delhi in the north, Mumbai in the west and Trivandrum in the south). We developed a computer-based, interviewer-administered dietary assessment software known as the 'NINA-DISH (New Interactive Nutrition Assistant - Diet in India Study of Health)', which consisted of four sections: (1) a diet history questionnaire with defined questions on frequency and portion size; (2) an open-ended section for each mealtime; (3) a food-preparer questionnaire; (4) a 24 h dietary recall.
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