[Nutrition survey of adults using a 7-day protocol--a pilot study in the Augsburg MONICA project]

During the MONICA-project nutrition as one factor for the development of coronary heart disease is examinated. The individual intake of total energy, of fat-including saturated and unsaturated fatty acids-and of alcohol should be determined. This pilot study was done before the first cohort study within the MONICA-project Augsburg. The nutritional data were collected from february to march 1984 with the 7-day-dairy-record-method. 65 of totally 112 received records were suitable for evaluation by the computer program KALI (version 2.1.4). The 35 male persons had an average energy intake of 2.677 kcal/day. The average daily energy intake of the 30 female persons decreased with age. The main energy source for all persons is fat. Five women and eight men have an average intake of more than 500 mg cholesterol/day. Estimations of the intake of fatty acids were not possible, because of the specification of the computer program. Carbohydrates supply about 36% in men and 40% in women of the total energy, protein about 13% and 16% respectively. Men are drinking about 44 g alcohol/day. This is distinctly more than women do. Womens daily intake of vitamin B1, vitamin B6 and iron was lower than the recommendations of the German Nutrition Society. It's the same with vitamin B6 for men.