Dietary habits and attitudes. Euronut SENECA investigators

This chapter describes data on dietary behaviour collected from 2586 elderly persons, born between 1913 and 1918 and living in 19 towns from 12 European countries, who participated in the Euronut SENECA Study on Nutrition of the Elderly in Europe. Groups of elderly subjects with particular dietary habits were identified. They included those persons having low or high meal frequencies, those not having regular cooked meals, those consuming home-produced foods, those having special interest or awareness in nutrition, those eating alone and those with food-budgeting problems. In future analyses, we shall endeavour to determine whether the dietary intake, nutritional status and health of these groups are related to their dietary habits.