Materials and methods:
Participants :
Among 525 employees, 94 were not willing to participate, then 431 filled the consent form. Therefore, 275 of them had complete diet data, however after considering total energy intakes within the range of 800–4200 kcal, then 211 of participants was taken into the final analysis. cluster random sampling from different departments in university.
This descriptive-analytic study was conducted on 211 employees using cluster random sampling from different departments in Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, aged between 18-50 who met the inclusion criteria. The inclusion criteria were willingness to participate in the study and age between 18-50 years. The exclusion criteria were reluctance to participate in the study, history of chronic disease, following vegan diet, pregnancy and lactation, taking certain medications.