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The food supply data indicate that the American diet has exceeded 39percentt of calories from fat continuously since 1950; in 1988 it was 42percentt.
Dr. Nestle acknowledged that food supply data are not an absolutely accurate indicator of what people are actually eating, but they do allow researchers to look at food supplies over time.
Results of the initial study are presented at SEDAC's Potential Impacts of Climate Change on World Food Supply: Data Sets from a Major Crop Modeling Study, released in 2001.
Specifically, notes the research -- which analyzed national per capita food supply data from 152 countries comprising 98 precent of the world population from 1961 to 2009 -- people were found to eat more energy-dense foods, such as soybean, wheat, sunflower oil and palm oil, even in areas where they were previously unavailable.
"The sum total is, we're heading toward a more homogenous diet". Specifically, notes the research -- which analyzed national per capita food supply data from 152 countries comprising 98 precent of the world population from 1961 to 2009 -- people were found to eat more energy-dense foods, such as soybean, wheat, sunflower oil and palm oil, even in areas where they were previously unavailable.
Icelandic food supply data clearly demonstrate the subsequent changes.
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The study used food-supply data from the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization to estimate the availability of different foods in the 175 countries examined, as well as estimates from the International Diabetes Foundation on the prevalence of diabetes among 20- to 79-year-olds.
To our knowledge, our methods represent the first effort to quantify the differences in FAO food-supply data and dietary intake data from national surveys on a global scale, with 109 countries represented.
Calibration models constructed in this analysis by using FAO food-supply data and country-level covariates effectively adjusted FAO estimates and improve their validity for estimating dietary intakes at the national level and by age and sex.
FAO annual food-supply data for 101 food items were obtained from standardized food balance sheets (http://faostat3.fao.org/faostat-gateway/go/to/download/FB/*/E) for all available nations and years between 1961 and 2009 (Table 1 ).
Our results corroborate and greatly expand on previous reports, which compared FAO food-supply data to individual dietary data for only a few countries (14, 15) or selected dietary components such as fruit and vegetables (16).
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