Subsequently we identify ten singular methods as being particularly effective in terms of contributing significantly to increasing scores of Scope, Representativeness, and Comfort and convenience, i.e. the criteria most influenced by the methods chosen.
Among girls, with increasing scores of the 'traditional and western' pattern age was decreasing.
Among boys, increasing scores of the 'traditional' pattern were associated with a higher energy density.
Among German adolescents, despite the high intakes of meat in the 'western', 'traditional' and 'traditional and western' patterns, iron density decreased with increasing scores of these patterns, whereas iron density increased with increasing scores of the 'healthy' patterns.
In general, increasing scores of negative affectivity tended to reverse this specific indirect effect from positive to negative.
The nutrient density of several vitamins and minerals, particularly of B-vitamins and calcium, increased with increasing scores of the 'healthy' pattern among both sexes.
As for the 'healthy' pattern among boys, energy density decreased and protein density increased with increasing scores of the 'healthy' pattern among girls.
In addition, increasing scores of the 'healthy' pattern among girls were associated with a lower intake of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids and a higher intake of PUFAs.
Conversely, with increasing scores of the 'western' pattern among boys, most nutrient densities decreased, particularly of fibre, beta-carotene, vitamin D, biotin and calcium.
With increasing scores of the 'western' pattern, boys were less physically active and had family breakfast less often three to five times a week (Table 2).
