Agneta Hörnell
Umeå University, Dept. of Food and Nutrition, Faculty Member
Principal component analysis model displaying separation for men during 2000-2007 related to belonging to the four clusters from Latent Class Analysis (Cluster 1, red. High-fat spread, high-fat dairy and sugar/jam; Cluster 2, dark green.... more
Principal component analysis model displaying separation for men during 2000-2007 related to belonging to the four clusters from Latent Class Analysis (Cluster 1, red. High-fat spread, high-fat dairy and sugar/jam; Cluster 2, dark green. Sandwiches; Cluster 3, light green. Fried potato and fast food, and Cluster 4, blue. Fruit, vegetables, oil and high-fiber cereals). Panel A: Scores for components 1 versus 2. Further, loading plots corresponding to the score plot based on the 40 food groups responsible for the variation among the men. Location of the four clusters from Latent Class Analysis are indicated. Panel B: Loadings for components 1 versus 2. (TIF 4014 kb)
Principal component analysis model displaying separation for women during 2008-2016 related to belonging to the four classes/clusters from Latent Class Analysis (Cluster1, red. High-fat spread and high-fat dairy; Cluster 2, dark green.... more
Principal component analysis model displaying separation for women during 2008-2016 related to belonging to the four classes/clusters from Latent Class Analysis (Cluster1, red. High-fat spread and high-fat dairy; Cluster 2, dark green. Fruit, vegetables and oil; Cluster 3, light green. Sandwiches, and Cluster 4, blue. Soda and sweets). Panel A: Scores for components 1 versus 2. Panel B: Scores for components 1 versus 4. Further, loading plots corresponding to the score plots based on the 40 food groups responsible for the variation among the women. Location of the four classes/clusters from Latent Class Analysis are indicated. Panel C: Loadings for components 1 versus 2. Panel D: Loadings for components 1 versus 3. (TIF 5427 kb)
Because of possible contradictions between physical and psychosocial health, sweet foods can create social tension in home economics. To explore this tension, we observed 59 students and five teach ...
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Women with celiac disease are often described as being exposed to negative emotions and experiences related to the treatment of celiac disease, the gluten-free diet. To explore the daily consequences of diagnosis and their daily... more
Women with celiac disease are often described as being exposed to negative emotions and experiences related to the treatment of celiac disease, the gluten-free diet. To explore the daily consequences of diagnosis and their daily experiences of living with celiac disease, interviews were conducted with seven Swedish young women who had been diagnosed with celiac disease by screening in early adolescence. The semi-structured interview transcripts were content analysed using a gender perspective. The analysis showed that these young women`s daily experiences were coloured by the conjunction of their dietary treatment, their social relationships, and social norms. This means that recurrent food situations often clash with the normative constructions of femininity and social norms of eating with an adverse effect on dietary compliance.
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New food products and what they symbolise for students and teachers in the discipline of 'Food and Nutrition'
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Research Interests: Demography, Epidemiology, Nutrition, Public Health, Medicine, and 15 moreBreastfeeding, Prospective studies, Population, Humans, Female, Infant, Newborn Infant, Exclusive Breastfeeding, Developed Countries, Adult, Public health systems and services research, Longitudinal Study, Longitudinal data, Breast feeding, and Current Status Data
Objectives To explore how diagnosis of celiac disease (CD) in early adolescence affects overall food intake and healthiness of the diet in comparison with age-and sex matched controls and children with CD diagnosed in early childhood.... more
Objectives To explore how diagnosis of celiac disease (CD) in early adolescence affects overall food intake and healthiness of the diet in comparison with age-and sex matched controls and children with CD diagnosed in early childhood. Methods This is a ...
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Background and objectives: DIETS2 (Dietitians ensuringeducation, teaching and professional quality) is an EU ThematicNetwork bring together an active network of dietetic (andnutrition) associations ...
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Objective: This study aimed to describe Discourses on vegetarian food in the Swedish school subject Home and Consumer Studies. Design: The study involved the observation of naturally occurring classroom talk, with audio recording and in... more
Objective: This study aimed to describe Discourses on vegetarian food in the Swedish school subject Home and Consumer Studies. Design: The study involved the observation of naturally occurring classroom talk, with audio recording and in some cases video-taping. Setting: The study was conducted during Home and Consumer Studies lessons in five different northern Swedish schools. Method: Fifty-nine students and five teachers were observed, recorded and in some cases video-taped. The resulting data were analysed with a focus on big ‘D’ Discourses. Results: Results indicated that gendered Discourses of absence, deviance and unattainability restricted some students’ access to vegetarian food. The absence of meat was constructed as simultaneously healthy and unhealthy, a lack of cultural familiarity with vegetarian cooking made finding recipes difficult and students perceived the loss of taste as very negative. The vegetarian was seen as deviant, with vegetarianism being conceptually equat...
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Principal component analysis model displaying separation for men during 2008-2016 related to belonging to the four clusters from Latent Class Analysis (Cluster 1, red. High-fat spread and high-fat dairy; Cluster 2, dark green. Fast food,... more
Principal component analysis model displaying separation for men during 2008-2016 related to belonging to the four clusters from Latent Class Analysis (Cluster 1, red. High-fat spread and high-fat dairy; Cluster 2, dark green. Fast food, bacon/sausage and fried potato; Cluster 3, light green. Fruit, vegetables and oil, and Cluster 4, blue. Sandwiches). Panel A. Scores for components 1 versus 2. Further, loading plots corresponding to the score plots based on the 40 food groups responsible for the variation among the men. Location of the four clusters from Latent Class Analysis are indicated. Panel B: Loadings for components 1 versus 2. Panel C: Loadings for components 1 versus 3. (TIF 5241 kb)
Adherence of the study according to STROBE-Nut. (DOC 84 kb)
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Research Interests: Pediatrics, Adolescent, Sweden, Humans, Child, and 15 moreCeliac Disease, Infant, Incidence, Risk factors, Newborn Infant, Retrospective Studies, Prognosis, Risk Factors, Birth Cohort, Primary Prevention, Nutritional Support, Child preschool, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, and Population surveillance
Title: Changes in food intake patterns during 2000-2007 and 2008-2016 in the population-based prospective Northern Sweden Diet Database Authors: Ena Huseinovic (ena.huseinovic@gu.se) Agneta Hörnell (agneta.hornell@umu.se) Ingegerd... more
Title: Changes in food intake patterns during 2000-2007 and 2008-2016 in the population-based prospective Northern Sweden Diet Database Authors: Ena Huseinovic (ena.huseinovic@gu.se) Agneta Hörnell (agneta.hornell@umu.se) Ingegerd Johansson (ingegerd.johansson@umu.se) Anders Esberg (anders.esberg@odont.umu.se) Bernt Lindahl (bernt.lindahl@umu.se) Anna Winkvist (anna.winkvist@nutrition.gu.se) Version: 1 Date: 16 May 2019 Author’s response to reviews: Dear Sir, We have now again uploaded the manuscript main file with the figure legends inserted AFTER the references.
Aarts, C. 2001. Exclusive breastfeeding Does it make a difference? A longitudinal, prospective study of daily feeding practices, health and growth in a sample of Swedish infants. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of... more
Aarts, C. 2001. Exclusive breastfeeding Does it make a difference? A longitudinal, prospective study of daily feeding practices, health and growth in a sample of Swedish infants. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1016, 59 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-554-4984-0 The concept of exclusive breastfeeding in relation to daily feeding practices and to health and growth of infants in an affluent society was examined. In a descriptive longitudinal prospective study 506 mother-infant pairs were followed from birth through the greater part of the first year. Feeding was recorded daily, and health and growth were recorded fortnightly. Large individual variations were seen in breastfeeding patterns. A wide discrepancy between the exclusive breastfeeding rates obtained from “current status” data and data "since birth" was found. Using a strict definition of exclusive breastfeeding from birth and taking into account the ...
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Perspectives about health outcomes related to food among Nordic childrenLinda Berggren* 1, Sanna Talvia2, Eldbjorg Fossgard3, Unnur Bjork Arnfjorð4, Agneta Hornell 1, Anna Olafsdottir 4,Ingibjorg G ...
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Iron status and its relations to diet, growth and heredity in 4-years old, well-nourished Swedish children
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Assessing School Meals intake by Digital Photograph Method in the Nordic Contexts (the Promeal study)
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Amning och tillvanjning till fast foda for friska fullgangna barn : En kunskapsoversikt fran Barnlakarforeningen och Livsmedelsverket
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Women with celiac disease are in the literature described as feeling exposed to negative emotions and experiences related to the treatment of celiac disease - the gluten-free diet. In order to expl ...
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The Ministry of Public Health of Cameroon advises mothers to follow the World Health Organization’s recommendation of exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life and to continue bre ...
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Over half of the annual guests at Swedish hotels are supplied by the corporate sector. These guests are made up of individuals who travel for meetings, conferences, or presentations as a part of their job. Access to meals while travelling... more
Over half of the annual guests at Swedish hotels are supplied by the corporate sector. These guests are made up of individuals who travel for meetings, conferences, or presentations as a part of their job. Access to meals while travelling is essential and introduces added complexity to the business travellers’ everyday lives. These meals, and the pattern in which they are consumed, are part of the individual traveller’s personal and group identities. Therefore, the aim of this article is to study if business travellers deviate from their habitual meal patterns and if so - what changes they make. To further the understanding of this group’s meal patterns, a questionnaire was created and distributed. It was answered by 538 self-identified business travellers. These business travellers were made up of three groups – solo travellers, group travellers, and individuals who travelled both in groups as well as alone. Pearson’s chi-squared test was used to analyse differences in actions rela...
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Women with celiac disease are often described as being exposed to negative emotions and experiences related to the treatment of celiac disease, the gluten-free diet. To explore the daily consequences of diagnosis and their daily... more
Women with celiac disease are often described as being exposed to negative emotions and experiences related to the treatment of celiac disease, the gluten-free diet. To explore the daily consequences of diagnosis and their daily experiences of living with celiac disease, interviews were conducted with seven Swedish young women who had been diagnosed with celiac disease by screening in early adolescence. The semi-structured interview transcripts were content analysed using a gender perspective. The analysis showed that these young women`s daily experiences were coloured by the conjunction of their dietary treatment, their social relationships, and social norms. This means that recurrent food situations often clash with the normative constructions of femininity and social norms of eating with an adverse effect on dietary compliance.
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The present study investigated schooling effects on cognition. Cognitive data were collected as part of a research project (ProMeal) that investigated school meals and measured the intake of school lunch in relation to children's... more
The present study investigated schooling effects on cognition. Cognitive data were collected as part of a research project (ProMeal) that investigated school meals and measured the intake of school lunch in relation to children's health, cognitive function, and classroom learning in four Nordic countries, among children between 10-11 years of age. It was found that Finnish pupils attending 4th grade were not, on any measure, outperformed by Norwegian and Icelandic pupils attending 5th and Swedish pupils attending 4th grade on a task measuring working memory capacity, processing speed, inhibition, and in a subsample on response- and attention control. Moreover, boys were found to perform superior to girls on tasks measuring processing speed. However, girls were found to perform better on tasks related to attention and self-control. The results are discussed in relation to the reciprocal association between cognition and schooling and whether these results reflect quality differen...
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Intake of sugary beverages is strongly associated with weight gain and obesity among children; however, differences between mothers' and grandmothers' attitudes and practices concerning young children's beverage consumption... more
Intake of sugary beverages is strongly associated with weight gain and obesity among children; however, differences between mothers' and grandmothers' attitudes and practices concerning young children's beverage consumption remain unclear. This is notable since about a quarter of families in the US and the UK rely on grandparents as the main providers of informal childcare. The aim of this study is to examine mothers' and maternal grandmothers' attitudes, knowledge, and practices regarding preschool aged children's beverage consumption. The analysis focuses on identifying intergenerational similarities and differences, given the potential impact that such differences might have on young children's beverage consumption habits. Twenty-two semi-structured interviews, representing eleven families, were analyzed using thematic analysis. The sample included all mother - maternal grandmother dyads from The Grandparents Study, which took place in Eugene, Oregon, ...
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Purpose Pupils’ perspective should be better taken into account when developing nutrition education at school. The purpose of this paper is to explore Nordic children’s perspectives on the healthiness of meals in the context of school... more
Purpose Pupils’ perspective should be better taken into account when developing nutrition education at school. The purpose of this paper is to explore Nordic children’s perspectives on the healthiness of meals in the context of school lunches. Design/methodology/approach In total, 78 focus group discussions were conducted with 10-11-year-old girls and boys (n=457) from schools in Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, which were participating in the Nordic school meal project ProMeal during the school year 2013-2014. A flexible discussion guide and stimulus material in the form of 14 photographs displaying different school lunch contexts were used. The discussions were analyzed using thematic analysis. Findings These Nordic children seem to share the adult-set aim of healthy eating in the school context as a socio-cultural norm. Although healthy eating was constructed as a rational, normative and acceptable way to eat at school, unhealthy eating was emphasized as negotiably acceptable...
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Diet influences the health of the foetus and the woman during pregnancy and later in life. It is therefore important to investigate pregnant women's food habits. The aim of this study was to... more
Diet influences the health of the foetus and the woman during pregnancy and later in life. It is therefore important to investigate pregnant women's food habits. The aim of this study was to describe women's food habits during pregnancy and up to six months post-partum. A Food Frequency Questionnaire (VIP-FFQ) was distributed to 163 pregnant women on five occasions during and after pregnancy. Data were analysed using Friedman's ANOVA and a Bonferroni post-hoc test. Food habits in relation to the National Food Agency's (NFA) food index. The pregnant women's diets were inadequate according to the NFA food index. A tendency towards an even poorer diet after delivery was identified, something which was related to an increased intake of discretionary food, e.g. sweets, cakes, cookies, crisps, ice cream, and decreased intake of fruit and vegetable. The alcohol consumption was low throughout. The food habits during pregnancy were inadequate compared to recommendations and these habits became unhealthier after delivery. These suggest that dietary counselling needs to be more effective and continued into the lactating period. An increased focus should be given to healthy eating from the life course perspective, not just focus on effects on the foetus and pregnancy outcomes.