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Eating out in America, 1987-2000: trends and nutritional correlatesAshima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
Prev Med 38:243-9. 2004..To address this issue, we examined trends in frequency of consumption of commercially prepared (CP) meals reported by Americans aged > or =18 years, and its nutritional correlates...- Reported consumption of low-nutrient-density foods by American children and adolescents: nutritional and health correlates, NHANES III, 1988 to 1994Ashima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing 11367, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:789-96. 2003..To examine the contribution of foods of modest nutritional value to the diets of American children and adolescents... - Interaction of body mass index and attempt to lose weight in a national sample of US adults: association with reported food and nutrient intake, and biomarkersA K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, New York, USA
Eur J Clin Nutr 57:249-59. 2003.... - Association of self-perceived body weight status with dietary reporting by U.S. teensAshima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing 11367, USA
Obes Res 10:1259-69. 2002.... - Weight-loss attempts and reporting of foods and nutrients, and biomarkers in a national cohortA K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing 11367, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 26:1194-204. 2002..This study examined the reported intake of foods and nutrients, and biomarkers of dietary exposure and cardiovascular disease in relation to history of trying to lose weight... 
Secular trends in patterns of self-reported food consumption of adult Americans: NHANES 1971-1975 to NHANES 1999-2002Ashima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 84:1215-23. 2006..The contributors to trends in increasing prevalence of obesity in the US population are poorly understood...- Intakes of plain water, moisture in foods and beverages, and total water in the adult US population--nutritional, meal pattern, and body weight correlates: National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys 1999-2006Ashima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, 11367, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 90:655-63. 2009..There is a surprising paucity of studies that have systematically examined the correlates of water intake in the US population... - Ethnic and socioeconomic differences in variability in nutritional biomarkersAshima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 87:1464-71. 2008..Although biomarker measurements are not subject to biased self-reports, biologic variability due to individual characteristics and behaviors related to dietary exposures contributes to within-subject variability and measurement error... - Association of breakfast energy density with diet quality and body mass index in American adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1999-2004Ashima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 88:1396-404. 2008..Breakfast consumption was also associated with diet quality and body weight; however, little is known about the association of breakfast consumption with dietary ED... - Energy density of diets reported by American adults: association with food group intake, nutrient intake, and body weightA K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 29:950-6. 2005..However, little is known about the energy density of diets consumed by free-living populations; therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine demographic, health, and nutritional correlates of energy density of self-reported diets... - Consumption of energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods by adult Americans: nutritional and health implications. The third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994A K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 72:929-36. 2000..Current dietary guidance recommends limiting the intake of energy-dense, nutrient-poor (EDNP) foods, but little is known about recent consumption patterns of these foods... - Secular trends in the association of socio-economic position with self-reported dietary attributes and biomarkers in the US population: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1971-1975 to NHANES 1999-2002Ashima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Remsen Hall, Room 306E, Queens College of City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
Public Health Nutr 10:158-67. 2007..To understand if diet may be a contributor to these trends, we examined secular trends in the association of diet and indicators of SEP from 1971-1975 to 1999-2002... - Patterns of recommended dietary behaviors predict subsequent risk of mortality in a large cohort of men and women in the United StatesAshima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
J Nutr 139:1374-80. 2009..Adoption of recommended dietary behaviors was associated with lower mortality in both men and women independent of other lifestyle risk factors... - Ethnicity is an independent correlate of biomarkers of micronutrient intake and status in American adultsAshima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
J Nutr 137:2456-63. 2007..Ethnic differences in status of several micronutrients persisted after adjustment for education and income, suggesting the importance of ethnicity-specific nutrition interventions... 
Dietary patterns: biomarkers and chronic disease riskAshima K Kant
Deptartment of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 35:199-206. 2010..The field requires innovation in methods to derive dietary patterns, validation of prevalent methods, and assessment of the effect of dietary measurement error on dietary patterns...- Contributors of water intake in US children and adolescents: associations with dietary and meal characteristics--National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005-2006Ashima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 92:887-96. 2010..Little is known about the association of contributors of total water intake with dietary characteristics in US children... - Nature of dietary reporting by adults in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994Ashima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing 11367, USA
J Am Coll Nutr 21:315-27. 2002..This study examined the relation of a measure of dietary reporting status with the nature of food intake reported by adults in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey... - Predictors of reported consumption of low-nutrient-density foods in a 24-h recall by 8-16 year old US children and adolescentsAshima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
Appetite 41:175-80. 2003..Socio-demographic, family, body weight, or lifestyle characteristics contributed little to predicting the number of LND foods reported in a 24-h recall... - Dietary patterns and health outcomesAshima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 104:615-35. 2004..Both of the currently used approaches for extracting dietary patterns have limitations, are subject to dietary measurement errors, and have not generated new diet and disease hypotheses... - Dietary patterns predict mortality in a national cohort: the National Health Interview Surveys, 1987 and 1992Ashima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY, USA
J Nutr 134:1793-9. 2004..The population-attributable fraction due to diet was 0.16 in men and 0.09 in women. Dietary patterns characterized by compliance with prevailing food-based dietary guidance were associated with a lower risk of all-cause mortality... - A comparison of three dietary pattern indexes for predicting biomarkers of diet and diseaseAshima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Remsen Hall, Room 306E, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
J Am Coll Nutr 24:294-303. 2005.... - Associations of lifestyle and physiologic factors with prostate-specific antigen concentrations: evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2001-2004)Niyati Parekh
Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, New York University, New York, New York, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:2467-72. 2008..No associations were observed between the other lifestyle and physiologic factors. Additional studies are required to confirm these results and to investigate the potential mechanisms that may explain these relationships... - Trends in black-white differentials in dietary intakes of U.S. adults, 1971-2002Ashima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, New York 11367, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:264-272. 2007..S. population. Tracking changes in black-white differentials in dietary attributes over time may help in understanding the contribution of diet to these disparities... - Physician advice about being overweight: association with self-reported weight loss, dietary, and physical activity behaviors of US adolescents in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2002Ashima K Kant
Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Remsen Hall, Room 306E, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
Pediatrics 119:e142-7. 2007..The goal was to examine the association of physician counseling about being overweight with attempted weight loss, dietary, and physical activity/inactivity behaviors of US teens... - Diet quality and subsequent cancer incidence and mortality in a prospective cohort of womenVolker Mai
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute/NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Int J Epidemiol 34:54-60. 2005..Incidence was only decreased for lung cancers. These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that a high RFS dietary pattern, or associated lifestyle factors, might affect cancer progression and survival...