Collection of original papers and data from the
"Food Habits in Later Life - A Cross Cultural Study"
an IUNS study (1988-1994) of health, food habits and lifestyle in
over 2000 elderly people in
Asia
(China, Philippines, Japan),
Australia
(Anglo-Celts, Greeks, Aborigines)
Europe
(Greece, Sweden)
Collection includes data from other elderly studies from Australia, Europe
(Euro-Nut Seneca), China, Japan, Korea and Indonesia

Editors: Wahlqvist ML, Hsu-Hage BH-H, Kouris-Blazos A, Lukito W

**Now freely available on-line (see links below)**

Originally published on CD-rom (1995) by
Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition and
United Nations University Press
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CHAPTER LISTING	LINKS TO PDF ARTICLES
SECTION 1: HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE IUNS PROJECT
Chapter 1	HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE IUNS PROJECT M L Wahlqvist
Chapter 2	OVERVIEW OF PROTOCOL A Kouris-Blazos
Chapter 3	HOW TO USE THIS BOOK M L Wahlqvist
SECTION 2: THE IUNS STUDY COMMUNITIES
Chapter 4	PEOPLE, PLACE, THE LIVING ENVIRONMENT AND THE SOCIETY - Geography and Climate; culture, religion and history; general demography and health statistics of community; housing state of development
Chapter 5	METHODOLOGY - Population selection and representativeness, response rate and refusals, data collection, modification and application of questionnaire
SECTION 3: CHARACTERISTICS OF THE IUNS STUDY COMMUNITIES
Chapter 6	DEMOGRAPHY B Hsu-Hage
Chapter 7	SELF-REPORTED HEALTH STATUS AND MEDICAL HISTORY M L Wahlqvist
Chapter 8	FOOD BELIEFS W Lukito and A Kouris-Blazos
Chapter 9	FOOD HABITS AND FOOD PRACTICES W Lukito
Chapter 10	FOOD PREPARATION, APPETITE AND EATING D Roe
Chapter 11	FOOD INTAKE B Hsu-Hage
Chapter 12	ENERGY AND NUTRIENT INTAKE E Rothenberg
Chapter 13	ANTHROPOMETRY A Roche
Chapter 14	BLOOD PRESSURE, BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND CUTANEOUS MICROTOPOGRAPHY B Steen
Chapter 15	SOCIAL FACTORS L Davies
Chapter 16	LIFESTYLE D Roe
Chapter 17	DISABILITY D Roe
SECTION 4: LESSONS FROM OTHER ELDERLY STUDIES IN THE DEVELOPED, DEVELOPING AND NEWLY INDUSTRIALISED WORLD
Chapter 18	EURONUT-SENECA STUDY ON NUTRITION AND THE ELDERLY IN EUROPE: FORMULATIONS L de Groot, W van Staveren
Chapter 19	EURONUT-SENECA STUDY ON NUTRITION AND THE ELDERLY: INTAKE OF FOODS AT FOUR SITES L de Groot, W van Staveren, J
Chapter 20	STUDIES IN ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA AND MOSGIEL, NEW ZEALAND CC Horwath, AJ Campbell, W Busby, C Robertson, A W
Chapter 21	STUDIES IN NORTHERN CHINA XH Zhao, HM Wen, Y Ling, P FuJ
Chapter 22	CURRENT STATUS OF FOOD AND NUTRIENT INTAKES OF THE ELDERLY IN JAPAN Y Horie, K Horie, K Sugase
Chapter 23	A STUDY OF NUTRITION AND OTHER MEASURES OF HEALTH AMONGST ELDERLY KOREANS Chonju Sook He Kim, Soo-Joo Cho
Chapter 24	FOOD-HEALTH CONSIDERATIONS IN A NURSING HOME FOR THE ELDERLY IN SICINSIN, WEST SUMATRA, INDONESIA F Oenzil
Chapter 25	SPONTANEOUS GERONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INITIATIVES IN CENTRAL AMERICA N Solomons, A Lacle, M Mazariegos, I Mendoz
SECTION 5: ASSESSMENT OF A COMMUNITY AND ITS FOOD AND HEALTH RELATIONSHIPS
Chapter 26	THE NATURE OF CROSS - CULTURAL FOOD AND HEALTH RELATIONSHIPS D Trichopoulos, V Kalapotheki, A Trichopoulos
Chapter 27	SOCIOCULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS IN DATA COLLECTION AND INTERPRETATION E Messer
Chapter 28	HEALTH ASSESSMENT OF THE AGED ML Wahlqvist
Chapter 29	ASSESSING FOOD AND HEALTH RELATIONSHIPS N Solomons
Chapter 30	THE PITFALLS OF THE INVESTIGATOR R Gross
SECTION 6: CONCLUSIONS, OPPORTUNITIES AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Chapter 31	PREDICTING LATER LIFE STATUS FROM FOOD HABITS IN COMMUNITIES OF ELDERLY GREEKS A Kouris-Blazos, B Hsu-Hage
Chapter 32	CONCLUSIONS, OPPORTUNITIES AND RECOMMENDATIONS N Scrimshaw & M L Wahlqvist
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A1	IUNS STUDY PROTOCOL AND QUESTIONNAIRES
APPENDIX A2	RAPID ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES FOR THE STUDY OF FOOD HABITS AND HEALTH STATUS IN THE ELDERLY N Scrimshaw, A Kouris-Blazos, B Taub, M Wahlqvist, L Davies
APPENDIX A3 - TABLES BY STUDY CENTRE
TABLE A3.1	ABORIGINALS, FITZROY CROSSING, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
TABLE A3.2	ANGLO-CELTS, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
TABLE A3.3	GREEKS, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
TABLE A3.4	GREEKS, SPATA, GREECE
TABLE A3.5	SWEDES, GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN
TABLE A3.6	FILIPINOS, MANILA, PHILIPPINES
TABLE A3.7	CHINESE, BEIJING, PRC
TABLE A3.8	CHINESE, TIANJIN, RURAL, PRC
TABLE A3.9	CHINESE, TIANJIN, URBAN, PRC
TABLE A3.10	ANGLO-CELTS, ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA
TABLE A3.11	ANGLO-CELTS, MOSGIEL, NEW ZEALAND
TABLE A3.12	JAPANESE, OKAZAKI
QUESTIONNAIRE	FHILL QUESTIONNAIRE
JOURNAL INFORMATION	ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION
DEDICATION	In memory of Professor Daphne Roe for her invaluable and insightful contribution to the fields of nutrition and gerontology