Diet Survey: A Tool for Comprehensive Nutritional Assessment
Keywords:
Diet, Diet survey, Nutritional assessment, Food frequency questionnaire, 24-hour dietary recallAbstract
The dietary habits of a person have been acknowledged as one of the most important determinant of different diseases or unfavorable outcomes in both developed and developing countries. Considering the importance of diet in the development of many diseases, assessment of the nutritional status of an individual / household / community carries a lot of significance. Different methods such as anthropometric measurements, biochemical and laboratory tests, clinical evaluation, diet survey, functional assessment and vital health parameters constitute a complete nutritional assessment. Diet survey is nothing but the scientific assessment of pattern of dietary intake or specific foods followed by the estimation of nutrient intake, and finally utilization of the obtained data for the benefit of masses. To conclude, diet survey can be regarded as a solution to the unique challenge of developing a balanced diet for different groups of people in order to bring about a substantial reduction in the suffering and deaths associated with lifestyle disorders.
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