Published: 1994
Total Pages: 230
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The purpose of this workshop was to establish consensus on the selection, use, and interpretation of dietary methods used for nutrition monitoring surveys and surveillance systems for the nutrition monitoring objectives addressed at the workshop; to establish dietary methods appropriate for state/local use that are comparable with national dietary methods; to recommend dietary methods for monitoring selected Year 2000 objectives; and to develop strategies for implementation of the workshop recommendations. Contains recommendations on dietary intake assessment of populations; statistical estimation of usual intake; cognitive issues in dietary recall; assessment of alcohol, calcium, fat, fruit and vegetable intake. Also discusses brief indicators of dietary status. In addition to the recommendations contains workshop discussions, background papers, and the topics and issues requiring further research.