Principles of Nutritional AssessmentThis is a comprehensive text on the methods - dietary, anthropometric, laboratory and clinical - of assessing the nutritional status of populations and of individuals in the hospital or the community. This Second Edition incorporates recent data from national nutritional surveys in the US and Europe; the flood of new information about iron, vitamin A and iodine; the role of folate in preventing neural tube defects; the use of HPLC techniques and enzyme assays; improvements in data handling; and many other developments. A paperback edition of this book is available to readers living outside of North America and Europe. Interested parties should contact the author at: rsgibson@nutrition.earthlight.co.nz http: //nutrition.earthlight.co.n |
Contents
1 INTRODUCTION | 1 |
2 FOOD CONSUMPTION AT THE NATIONAL AND HOUSEHOLD LEVELS | 27 |
3 MEASURING FOOD CONSUMPTION OF INDIVIDUALS | 41 |
4 ASSESSMENT OF NUTRIENT INTAKES FROM FOOD CONSUMPTION DATA | 65 |
5 MEASUREMENT ERRORS IN DIETARY ASSESSMENT | 105 |
6 REPRODUCIBILITY IN DIETARY ASSESSMENT | 129 |
7 VALIDITY IN DIETARY ASSESSMENT METHODS | 149 |
8 EVALUATION OF NUTRIENT INTAKES AND DIETS | 197 |
16 ASSESSMENT OF PROTEIN STATUS | 403 |
17 ASSESSMENT OF IRON STATUS | 443 |
18 ASSESSMENT OF THE STATUS OF VITAMINS A D AND E | 477 |
19 ASSESSMENT OF VITAMIN C STATUS | 529 |
20 ASSESSMENT OF THE STATUS OF THIAMIN RIBOFLAVIN AND NIACIN | 545 |
21 ASSESSMENT OF VITAMIN Bsub6 STATUS | 575 |
22 ASSESSMENT OF FOLATE AND VITAMIN Bsub12 STATUS | 595 |
23 ASSESSMENT OF CALCIUM PHOSPHORUS AND MAGNESIUM STATUS | 641 |
9 ANTHROPOMETRIC ASSESSMENT | 233 |
10 ANTHROPOMETRIC ASSESSMENT OF BODY SIZE | 245 |
11 ANTHROPOMETRIC ASSESSMENT OF BODY COMPOSITION | 273 |
12 ANTHROPOMETRIC REFERENCE DATA | 299 |
13 EVALUATION OF ANTHROPOMETRIC INDICES | 335 |
14 LABORATORY ASSESSMENT OF BODY COMPOSITION | 353 |
15 LABORATORY ASSESSMENT | 373 |
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