Investigation of dietary structure and nutritional status of people aged 50 and over in Beijing

  Objective   To investigate the dietary structure and nutrition status of people aged 50 and over in Beijing.

  Methods   3 day's continuous food weighting and 24 hours food intake recall were used to get the variety of different kind of food and their intake amount.

  Results   The major food for the sample population was cereal, and there was difference between urban and ruralarea on the food pattern.Althouth the average levels of some nutrients had close or even over the Reference Nutrient Intake(RNI), the differences among individuals were observed.There was still quite proportion of people whose intake of energy, protein, fat-soluble vitamin, vitamin B group, zinc, potassium and other nutrients were lower than RNI.

  Conclusion   The diet pattern of middle aged people was not very reasonable.The intake of vegetable, fruit and pulse products should be increased, and the intake of fat and natrium shoul be controlled.And efforts should be taken to reduce the difference among individuals.