"Staple foods, such as rice, noodles and bread, make up a huge proportion of the average diet, especially for the poor, but these foods are not packed with much protein, vitamins or minerals," said Sonia Blaney, a nutritionist from UNICEF Indonesia.
"Staple foods, such as rice, noodles and bread, make up a huge proportion of the average diet, especially for the poor, but these foods are not packed with much protein, vitamins or minerals," says Karen Codling, a nutritionist who runs the Public Nutrition Solutions consultancy, based in Bangkok.
All subjects had similar diet and exercise profiles and diet was recorded before and at the end of the study (see Table 3 for average diet information).
Data gathered included daily calorie intake, nutrient composition, micronutrient intake, and incidence of binge eating (see Table 3 for average diet intake information).
The current average diet in Hong Kong is very different to the average Chinese diet.
Just think of how the average diet experience goes.
An average American diet, for both males and females (≥2 years), was collected (32).
For all groups of a given population, we used either the only available data set or an average for diet and substrate use.
On average, an 1,800 kcal/day diet for a 70-kg individual was used to achieve adequate weight loss.
