WWEIA

<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">WWEIA is What We Eat in America and it is the dietary interview part of the NHANES data.  NHANES</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> is the national survey that takes place continuously over two year intervals.  It stands for National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and it provides us with a great deal of information about many subjects.  NHANES data is often used in reports on the changing rates of overweight and obesity and other disease conditions.  It includes a food recall component, a household survey and a medical exam (with laboratory analysis).  Not everyone participates in each component.  Information about health, medicines, supplements, foods and a number of other things, is collected and has been since the 1970s.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I will be learning a lot about all of this for my dissertation, but I noticed something that I wanted to share.  Unfortunately, I haven't yet figured out exactly when the DHHS/CDC started collecting this additional information- but it was recently.  I do understand <u>why</u> they are collecting it and the fact that they are puts more support behind the associations.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The newer information regards Vitamin D use, breast feeding and FISH consumption (but I think the fish stuff may be older - maybe 1996).  That is the one that caught my attention.  The interviewers ask about certain fish - like salmon, pike, swordfish and shellfish, and so on... I can think of some neat research questions for that data.. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I hope the lab work is collecting blood (well it is - I know) so we can probably look at mercury levels later.  We can also look at PUFA and Omega 3s and heart disease.... In fact, after writing this I found an article about mercury levels based on some of the NHANES data and data from another study - but did not have time to review it.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So much to do!  I love research :)</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Read more about the <a href="http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=13793">WWEIA </a></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span>

WWEIA

WWEIA is What We Eat in America and it is the dietary interview part of the NHANES data.  NHANES  is the national survey that takes place co...

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