Innovations in dietary assessment method

NUTRITIONAL STATUS303 APRIL 24, 2021

Introduction

The usage for accurate pacific dietary assessment is ever increasing. High quality data is required to develop diet-disease relationship and to understand the diverse dietary pattern. Consequently, continuous effort are being made to improve the exiting method as well as to develop advanced , innovative and accurate alternatives.

Factor that urged the development of new method are the errors of misreporting and estimation of portion size in traditional method (dietary recall and food record etc.) since they rely completely on the respondent’s memory.

Utilization of innovative communication tools such as personal digital assistant, mobile phone and computer software for dietary assessment overcame the burden of recording by pen and paper and helped in obtaining reliable information. These techniques caused reduction in cost of data entry, coding and processing.

New techniques have several advantages in comparison to traditional methods; they do not depend on the respondent’s memory, can process the data automatically and give personalized dietary advice. However, there are some associated disadvantages i.e. difficulty in implementation in rural areas and in low literacy populations.

Image-assisted dietary assessment methods IADAM

IADAM is referred to assessment method that uses images in the form of photography or videos of the foods captured at the time of eating to reduce burden of respondent to memo dent the foods, thereby improving the accuracy of data collected

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