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Nutritional adequacy of home food inventories of seniors receiving home-delivered meals in South Carolina
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Nutritional adequacy of home food inventories of seniors receiving home-delivered meals in South Carolina
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Lashway
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Nancy F.
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Nancy F. Lashway
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Robson
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Mark G
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Mark G Robson
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Rutgers University
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School of Public Health
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2016-01
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2016
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The aging of the American population and subsequent increase in chronic disease will have a profound effect on public health, social services and healthcare. In the United States, a healthy lifestyle, diet and exercise can help delay and/or treat chronic diseases and promote quality of life. Former studies have evaluated home food inventories in U.S households for several nutrients, yet data regarding in-home pantries of homebound older adults is scarce. Quality dietary intake is important when energy requirements are reduced due to aging; seniors may be at nutritional risk from vitamin and mineral inadequacies, contributing to a decline in health status and function. The in-home food inventory takes on major importance for the homebound due to physical, mental, economic and social limitations impacting food procurement, storage, preparation and consumption. The current study details the nutritional adequacy of the in-home food inventory of homebound seniors and examines gender and ethnic differences. Highest values for days meeting Daily Values and Dietary Reference Intakes were found for vitamin A and sodium. Convenience foods were abundant, providing economical, shelf-stable, and easy iv to prepare meals when functionally limited. Vitamin D and calcium were found to be the limiting nutrients in this study. The highest frequency of significant differences in home food inventories was found between races: White compared to non-White, and for females: White compared to non-White. Dairy products have repeatedly been reported as the major contributor of vitamin D for adults. In this study, the contribution of dairy products to total vitamin D ranged from 16.7% (non-White males) to 32.2% (White females); females had 51% more dairy products in their inventories than males. Fish and ready-to eat cereals took on major importance in food inventories, providing nutrient dense, shelf-stable and economical sources of vitamin D. Reduced consumption of milk and major sources of vitamin D, along with declining cutaneous synthesis of vitamin D with age present challenges in developing public health strategies to achieve adequate vitamin D intake in the older population.
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Public Health
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Older people--Nutrition
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Meals on wheels programs--South Carolina
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1 online resource (viii, 80 p. : ill.)
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by Nancy F. Lashway
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Nancy
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2016-08-01
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after August 1st, 2016.
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