Nutrient Adequacy:

Download or read book Nutrient Adequacy: written by Food and Nutrition Board and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just how accurately can adequate nutrient intake be measured? Do food consumption surveys really reflect the national diet? This book includes a brief history of dietary surveys, and an analysis of the basis of dietary evaluation and its relationship to recommended dietary allowances. A discussion of how usual dietary intake may be estimated from survey data, a recommended approach to dietary analysis, and an application of the analysis method is presented. Further, an examination of the impact of technical errors, the results of confidence interval calculations, and a summary of the subcommittee's recommendations conclude the volume.