The Committee on Nutrition and Aging of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS) organized a project entitled Food Habits in Later Life (FHLL) that studied the nutritional and health problems of the elderly from 13 communities in six countries. Demographic, food intake, anthropometric, and health-related data were obtained from a total of 2,013 individuals who participated in this cross-cultural, multicentre study. The methods developed and used in this project will be useful for other groups interested in designing cross-cultural, multicentre studies.
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