Authors: Meryem Gubur, Hulya Demir.
Aim: In this study, diet quality of the female patients aged 18-65 with a body mass index (BMI) of 25-30 who applied to the polyclinic of Nutrition and Dietetics of a private hospital were compared with those of women with body mass index 30-40 using Healthy Eating Index (HEI-2010).
Method: The 24HDR (Twenty Four Hour Dietary Recall) was asked the participants to report everything that they consumed in the 24 hours prior to the survey. The data from the 24 hour recalls were analyzed using Nutrition Information System (BeBiS) program. This software was used to calculate total energy, macro- and micro-nutrient intakes. Dietary quality was assessed by means of the HEI-2010. In statistical analyses, frequency distributions, and percentage measurements were evaluated via chi-square test.
Conclusions: BMI 25-30 participants with a mean HEI score of 48.0 ± 12.5 and participants with a BMI of 30-40 had an HEI average score of 52.4 ± 13.9. %1 of the total respondents had good diet, 54% need to improvement it, and 45% had inadequate. In total participants, cereal, vegetables, fruit, milk, sodium and other nutritional component scores of HEI-2010 were found to be low in the overall population. The HEI value with the lowest score is the fruit, while the highest HEI value was found as total fatty acid. There was a significant difference in HEI scores according to their profession (p<0.05). As a result, there was no significant difference in the degree of comparison between the groups with BMI between 25-30 and 30-40 according to the total HEI scores, the total dietary quality in both groups need to be changed and improved.
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