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. 2012 Mar 15;50(5):721–726. doi: 10.1007/s00592-012-0387-0

Table 2.

Result of principal components analysis of dietary intake traits

Factor 1 (“Healthy,” 22 %) Factor 2 (“Unhealthy,” 18 %)
Vegetables (d/wk) 0.55 −0.20
Uncooked vegetables (d/wk) 0.55 −0.18
Fruit (d/wk) 0.65 −0.08
Juice (d/wk) 0.61 0.33
Fish (d/wk) 0.53 −0.17
Snack (d/wk)a 0.02 0.69
Fast food (d/wk)a −0.24 0.62
Soft drink (d/wk) −0.15 0.61

Results were obtained using varimax rotation with kaiser normalization. In brackets is the percentage of variance explained by the factor. d/wk: days per week. Numbers in the table are factor loadings of the questionnaire items

aExamples regarding snacks: chips, French fries, peanuts, cheese, cookies, pastry, chocolate, candy. Examples regarding fast food: ready-to-eat frozen meals such as pizza; McDonalds, Burger King, or fried meals. See also supplementary information S1