We would primarily want to collect dietary data in the YPs but also hope with this proposal you will consider inclusion of dietary questions in the next Mother and Father questionnaires.

We have previously sought funding to collect new dietary data in both YPs and Mums but have not been successsful to date. We will continue to seek funds that would contribute to the data collection costs that we are poroposing and would provide nutrition support to derive nutrient intakes (if the full FFQs are included).

Ideally we would like to include a full Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) similar to that used in the mothers previously. However we understand that the current YP Q being prepared is likely to be full and therefore a complete FFQ may not be considered this time around. We have therefore suggested in the QPF (attached) a considerably shortened version based on results we have obtained from dietary pattern analyses focussing on the most important foods that describe differents in dietary intake. Using this would mean we could obtain some vital dietary information but this would not be sufficient to derive any nutrient intakes; however, we could still create dietary patterns.

In addition (or possibly in the case of YPs, instead of any FFQ) we request the inclusion of a series of food behaviour questions which we feel will be really important in examining the reasons why people eat the way they do and may therefore be contributing factors to health outcomes such as obesity and other CVD risk factors for example.