Diet Quality: An Evidence-Based Approach, Volume 1

Part 1: Introductory Chapters

Chapter 1 - Diet Quality: setting the scene - Najeeba F. Alamir and Victor R. Preedy

Chapter 2 - Food Intake and Food Preference - Stephanie Stein, Elizabeth Lamos, Michael Quartuccio, Sruti Chandraskaran, Nicole Ionica and Nanette Steinle

Chapter 3 - An evidence-based approach to the nutritional quality of home meals: Exploring emotional reinforcement and attachment style as underlying mechanisms - Ji Lu, Aida Faber and Laurette Dubé

Chapter 4 - Diet Quality and its Potential Cost Savings - Clare Collins, Alexis Hure, Tracy Burrows and Amanda Patterson

Part 2: Reproduction, Pregnancy and Women

Chapter 5 - Reproduction, Pregnancy and Women: Diet quality and dysmenorrheal - Khalid K. Abdul-Razzak, Bayan A. Obeidat, Nehad M. Ayoub, Mudhaffar I. Al-Farras and Ahmed A. Jaradat

Chapter 6 - Maternal diet quality and pregnancy outcomes - Clara L. Rodríguez-Bernal, Marisa Rebagliato, Leda Chatzi, Clara Cavero Carbonell, Carmen Martos and Ferran Ballester

Chapter 7 - Diet quality in pregnancy: a focus on requirements and the protective effects of the Mediterranean Diet - Miguel Mariscal-Arcas, Celia Monteagudo and Fátima Olea-Serrano

Chapter 8 - Maternal dietary counseling and children's diet quality - Márcia Regina Vitolo,

Maria Laura da Costa Louzada and Fernanda Rauber

Chapter 9 - Diet quality, micronutrient intakes and economic vulnerability of women - Liv Elin Torheim and Mary Arimond

Part 3: Life Stages: Children and Seniors

Chapter 10 - Interventions to improve dietary quality in children - Melanie Hingle

Chapter 11 - Free fruit for school children to improve food quality - Elling Bere and Knut-Inge Klepp

Chapter 12 - Diet quality in childhood: impact on growth - Guo Cheng and Anette E. Buyken

Chapter 13 - Diet Quality, in relation to TV viewing and Video Games playing - George Antonogeorgos and Demosthenes Panagiotakos

Chapter 14 - Parental Perceptions and childhood dietary quality: who holds the reigns? - Kristi B. Adamo and Kendra E. Brett

Chapter 15 - Convenience foods and dietary quality in children - Ute Alexy

Chapter 16 - Nutritional education of Secondary Education students and diet quality - María Isabel Martinez-Martinez and Jose Martinez-Raga

Chapter 17 - Diet Quality and Older Adults: Special Considerations - Alice Lichtenstein

Part 4: Foods and Dietary Components

Chapter 18 - Mediterranean Diet and Dietary Sodium Intake - Paul Farajian and Antonis Zampelas

Chapter 19 - Nutritional Quality of Foods: Sweet Potato - Hoang Van Chuyen and Jong-Bang Eun

Chapter 20 - Cooking and diet quality: a focus on meat - Cristina M. Alfaia, Anabela F. Lopes and José A. M. Prates

Chapter 21 - The quality of orange juice - Luciano Cinquanta and Marisa Di Matteo

Chapter 22 - Whole Grains and Diet - Satya S. Jonnalagadda