Dietary Intake Nutrition Surveillance

The dietary intake assessed through dietary history of 539 apparently healthy independently living elderly aged 65 79 years was evaluated in a nationwide random sample.

Dietary intake nutrition surveillance. Ministry of agriculture fisheries and food. The objective of this system is to measure and monitor food and nutrient intakes food security nutritional status nutrition related health outcomes as well as knowledge attitudes and practices on healthy food and other lifestyle factors such as physical activity and healthy environment. The dietary reference intake dri is a system of nutrition recommendations from the institute of medicine iom of the national academies united states. Nutritional status indices can be evaluated by comparing them with reference values mostly obtained from healthy adults.

Objectives evaluate the validity of the national health and nutrition examination survey nhanes caloric intake data throughout its history and examine trends in the validity of caloric intake estimates. Steering group on chemical aspects of food surveillance. 1 tno nutrition and food research zeist the netherlands. Importance methodological limitations compromise the validity of u s.

Enhancing health requires surveillance of food and nutrient intakes food safety nutritional status and nutrition related health outcomes. Except for pyridoxine the intake of vitamins minerals and water was adequate according to the dutch recommended dietary allowances. Nutritional assessment includes a normative evaluation of dietary intake and nutritional status indicators in order to estimate for instance the proportion of the population at risk. 1 department of human nutrition tno toxicology and nutrition institute ziest the netherlands.

Dietary intake of food contaminants in the netherlands dutch nutrition surveillance system. It was introduced in 1997 in order to broaden the existing guidelines known as recommended dietary allowances rdas see below the dri values differ from those used in nutrition labeling on food and dietary supplement products in the u s. Hulshof kf 1 wedel m löwik mr kok fj kistemaker c hermus rj ten hoor f ockhuizen t. It is also important to monitor factors that influence food and nutrient intakes such as economic and societal factors and individual factors like knowledge attitudes and practices.

Fat intake 40 energy as well as p s ratio 0 41 was assessed as being unfavorable. To assess the level of exposure to food contaminants cadmium lead pcbs ddt. Dietary intake of food contaminants in the netherlands dutch nutrition surveillance system food additives contaminants. Dietary intake of food additives in the uk.

Get this from a library. Nutritional surveillance data and the empirical foundation for formulating dietary guidelines and public health policies. The thirty seventh report of the steering group on chemical aspects of food surveillance.