Elderly Greeks in Spata, Greece and Melbourne, Australia: Food habits, health and lifestyle

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PhD THESIS 1994

Elderly Greeks in Spata, Greece and Melbourne, Australia:

Food Habits, Health and Lifestyle.

Dr Antigone Kouris-Blazos

Table of Contents
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Aims & Hypothesis	8	PDF
Principal Findings	9
Synopsis	10
PhD Structure	15

Chapter 1 Introduction	16	PDF
Chapter 2 Literature Review	20	PDF
Chapter 3 Methods & Validation of Food Frequency Questionnaire	72	PDF

Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 4 Description of the Communities and Representativeness of the Study Populations	125	PDF
Chapter 5 Well-being, Disability, Health	160	PDF
Chapter 6 Lifestyle and Social Factors	240	PDF
Chapter 7 Food Habits and Food Beliefs	318	PDF
Chapter 8 Traditional Foods, Frequency of Consumption & Distant Past Food Intake	380	PDF
Chapter 9 Current Food Intake & Variety	489	PDF
Chapter 10 Nutrient Intake	629	PDF
Chapter 11 Body Composition, Nutritional Haematology and Biochemistry	710	PDF

Multivariate Statistics
Chapter 12 Food & Nutrient Predictors of Later Life Status	785	PDF
Chapter 13 Conclusion	818	PDF
Bibliography	823	PDF
Appendices	847	PDF1, PDF2
Publications	961	PDF
Abbreviations	963

Appendices

APPENDIX 1 Australian Bureau of Statistics, National Health Survey, 1989-1990
(unpublished data on Southern European born Australians and Australian-born, all ages (including 70+)
APPENDIX 2 Questionnaire used with Elderly Greeks

APPENDIX 3 Food codes in Food frequency questionnaire
(coded according to Australian & Greek food composition tables; macronutrient composition of foods & dishes included.

APPENDIX 4 Seasonal availability of vegetables and fruit in Australia and Greece

APPENDIX 5 Durnin and Womersley Tables (fat mass estimated from 4 skinfolds and tricep skinfold only)

APPENDIX 6 Converting food frequency to grams/day of food (Programme written in DBASE to calculate grams/day from FFQ)

APPENDIX 7 Nutrient Conversion (Programme written in SAS for nutrient conversion of grams per day of food

APPENDIX 8 Health and lifestyle scores (programmes written in Dase to compute scores).

APPENDIX 9 Food groups

APPENDIX 10 Traditional foods and score (programme written in SAS to calculate score).

APPENDIX 11 Food group variety scores (programme written in SAS to calculate scores).

APPENDIX 12 Statistical analyses (programmes written in SAS)

APPENDIX 13 Food group intakes of elderly Greek subjects in Euronut-Study (unpublished data, Trichopoulou et al., Athens School of Public Health & de Groot et al, Wageningen University)

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