Adherence to the Mediterranean diet
This was assessed by means of the KidMed questionnaire.16 It
consists of 16 items that refer to Mediterranean dietary patterns, scoring items that are negatively correlated with the
Mediterranean diet with a −1 (for example, having sweets
several times a day), and items with a positive correlation
with a +1 (such as having fruit daily). This leads to a final score that ranges between −4 and 12, and therefore compliance with Mediterranean dietary patterns was rated as high
(≥8), moderate (4---7) or low (≤3).