Dietary Taurine and Nutrient Intake and Dietary Quality by Alcohol Consumption Level in Korean Male College Students - Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology - page 120

Table 13.5 Nutrient adequacy ratio (NAR) and mean adequacy ratio (MAR) of the subjects
Variables Light drinking group ( n = 88) Heavy drinking group ( n = 132) t -value

Protein 0.998 ± 0.001 a 0.997 ± 0.002 0.493

Vit A 0.860 ± 0.018 0.860 ± 0.019 0.098

Vit B 1 0.985 ± 0.005 0.991 ± 0.003 −1.101

Vit B 2 0.820 ± 0.020 0.840 ± 0.021 −0.847

Niacin 0.987 ± 0.005 0.982 ± 0.005 0.786

Vit C 0.730 ± 0.019 0.690 ± 0.018 1.267

Ca 0.660 ± 0.017 0.650 ± 0.020 0.237

P 1.000 ± 0.000 1.000 ± 0.000 0.237

Fe 0.989 ± 0.004 0.991 ± 0.003 −0.377

MAR 0.896 ± 0.008 0.895 ± 0.006 0.098

a Mean ± SEM

Table 13.6 Nutrient density (ND) of the subjects

Heavy drinking
group ( n = 132) t -value
Protein (g/1,000 kcal) 42.0 ± 0.5 a 41.8 ± 0.5 0.269
Carbohydrate (g/1,000 kcal) 133.1 ± 1.4 128.1 ± 1.5 2.317 * b
VitA ( m g RE/1,000 kcal) 337.7 ± 12.5 366.3 ± 12.5 −1.568
VitB 1 (mg/1,000 kcal) 0.7 ± 0.02 0.7 ± 0.01 −0.817
VitB 2 (mg/1,000 kcal) 0.6 ± 0.02 0.6 ± 0.01 −0.376
Niacin (mg/1,000 kcal) 10.3 ± 0.2 9.8 ± 0.2 1.996*
VitB 6 (mg/1,000 kcal) 1.1 ± 0.02 1.1 ± 0.02 0.950
Vit C (mg/1,000 kcal) 37.4 ± 1.5 32.5 ± 0.9 2.967** b
Ca (mg/1,000 kcal) 234.2 ± 8.2 235.2 ± 7.2 −0.089
Na (mg/1,000 kcal) 2128.2 ± 63.7 2168.6 ± 61.6 −0.447
Fe (mg/1,000 kcal) 6.5 ± 0.1 6.4 ± 0.1 0.687
Zn (mg/1,000 kcal) 4.8 ± 0.7 4.6 ± 0.1 2.152*
a Mean ± SEM; b Values with * superscripts are significantly different between light and heavy
drinking group by Student t -test (*: p < 0.05, **: p < 0.01)

Light drinking
group ( n = 88) Variables

non-alcohol drinkers while average daily nutrient intake for most nutrients was
similar for drinkers and nondrinkers (Windham et al. 1983 ). In addition, it was
reported in the Northwest Territories, Canada, that energy intake was higher
among all alcohol consumers (Rittmueller et al. 2012 ) .

13.3.4 Dietary Quality

With regard to the dietary quality evaluation of the subjects, there was no signi-
ficant difference in NAR of 9 nutrients and MAR between heavy and light drinking
groups (Table 13.5 ), while the nutrient densities of carbohydrate, niacin, vitamin C,