COVID-19 Healthy Diet Dataset

“Health requires healthy food."

Roger Williams (1603 – 1683)

Inspiration and Research Objectives

The USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion recommends a very simple daily diet intake guideline: 30% grains, 40% vegetables, 10% fruits, and 20% protein, but are we really eating in the healthy eating style recommended by these food divisions and balances?

In this dataset, I have combined data of different types of food, world population obesity and undernourished rate, and global COVID-19 cases count from around the world in order to learn more about how a healthy eating style could help combat the Corona Virus. And from the dataset, we can gather information regarding diet patterns from countries with lower COVID infection rate, and adjust our own diet accordingly.

In each of the 4 datasets below, I have calculated fat quantity, energy intake (kcal), food supply quantity (kg), and protein for different categories of food (all calculated as percentage of total intake amount). I've also added on the obesity and undernourished rate (also in percentage) for comparison. The end of the datasets also included the most up to date confirmed/deaths/recovered/active cases (also in percentage of current population for each country).

Acknowledgements

• Data for different food group supply quantities, nutrition values, obesity, and undernourished percentages are obtained from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO website To see the specific types of food included in each category from the FAO data, take a look at the last dataset Supply_Food_Data_Description.csv.

• Data for population count for each country comes from Population Reference Bureau PRB website

• Data for COVID-19 confirmed, deaths, recovered and active cases are obtained from Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering CSSE website

• The USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion diet intake guideline information can be found in ChooseMyPlate.gov

Note: I will update and push new versions of the datasets weekly. (Current version include COVID data from the week of 02/06/2021) Click here to see my data cleaning/preprocessing code in R

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