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Objective: To investigate the dietary nutrient patterns in preschool children aged 3-6 years old, and analyze the relationship between the dietary nutrients and being overweight or obese. Methods: A stratified cluster sampling method was used to select 19,529 preschool children aged 3-6 from 62 kindergartens in Jiashan County of Zhejiang Province. To evaluate the overweight and obesity rates in the included children, body mass index (BMI) of all the children were analyzed using the BMI-for-age method and the weight-for-height method recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). The dietary nutrient patterns of the preschool children were obtained by survey of food frequency and dietary reviews. Results: The intake of meat from livestock and poultry among overweight and obese children increased significantly at different ages. Moreover, there were significant differences observed between normal-weight and overweight/obese children with regard to the consumption of grain, eggs, milk, vegetables, potatoes, livestock, poultry, fish and shrimp, legumes, fruits and oils (all P |
