Food trade-offs: choosing how to balance the diet. (Insight 24 May 2001). From: Family Economics and Nutrition Review | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Dinkins, Julia M.; Lino, Mark | COPYRIGHT 2002 Superintendent Of Documents. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

People often make "food trade-offs" to balance their diet. For example, a person may choose to eat lowfat frozen yogurt rather than regular ice cream. The trade-offs that people make, who makes these trade-offs, and how these trade-offs affect their diet are of interest to nutrition educators. This Insight examines in-depth the food trade-offs people make. From a list of 14 foods, people indicated whether they used any of five trade-offs to balance the nutrition in their diet. Most...