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Published in: Current Nutrition Reports 4/2016

01-12-2016 | Public Health and Translational Medicine (MEJ Lean, Section Editor)

What Are They Really Eating? A Review on New Approaches to Dietary Intake Assessment and Validation

Authors: Megan E. Rollo, Rebecca L. Williams, Tracy Burrows, Sharon I. Kirkpatrick, Tamara Bucher, Clare E. Collins

Published in: Current Nutrition Reports | Issue 4/2016

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Abstract

Purpose

Assessing food and nutrient intakes is critical to evolving our understanding of diet-disease relationships and the refinement of nutrition guidelines to support healthy populations. The aims of this narrative review are to summarise recent advances in dietary assessment methodologies, with a particular focus on approaches using new technologies, as well as strategies to evaluate tools, and to provide directions for future research.

Recent Findings

Technology as a mode to assess dietary intake has gained momentum in recent years, with the development of image-based methods and wearable devices, as well as the emergence of online methods of administering traditional paper-based approaches to dietary assessment. At the same time, there have been advances in the development of dietary biomarkers to evaluate measures of self-reported dietary intake. Common biomarkers, such as plasma carotenoids and red blood cell fatty acids, are still being utilised with new markers including urinary markers of sugar or wholegrain intake, skin carotenoids as a measure of fruit and vegetable intake. As well, the field of metabolomics shows promise.

Summary

Challenges remain in dietary intake assessment, and further efforts are required to refine and evaluate methods so that we can better understand diet-disease relationships and inform guidelines and interventions to promote health.
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Metadata
Title
What Are They Really Eating? A Review on New Approaches to Dietary Intake Assessment and Validation
Authors
Megan E. Rollo
Rebecca L. Williams
Tracy Burrows
Sharon I. Kirkpatrick
Tamara Bucher
Clare E. Collins
Publication date
01-12-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Current Nutrition Reports / Issue 4/2016
Electronic ISSN: 2161-3311
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13668-016-0182-6

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