Indirect method of dietary assessment

Introduction;

Estimation of nutrient of food intake/diet pattern of an individual or all the individuals of a household/ population over a specific time period is termed as dietary assessment’’ dietary assessment is one of the four major approaches employed for comprehensive assessment of nutritional status.

The nation famous from the ancient time stating that’’ diet and health are interlinked’’ is the major focus of medical practitioners these days.

Discovery of the protective role of citrus fruit against scurvy among sailors formed the historical perspectives of this nation and suggested a need to find relationship among diets and diseases.

However, diet has a vital role in etiology and also helps to prevent several chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, hypertension and diabetes. Moreover, our genetic disposition is effected by eating habits as well as lifestyle factor such as smoking and physical activities.

Assessment of the health outcomes of dietary habits has become pivotal due to recent health behavior and complexity of nutrition, It’ s quite a tough task to record the food consumption or eating habits of people. Even there are chance of errors; the best available method are being used either in combination or individually for nutritional assessment.

Adequate assessment of dietary intake has its importance not only in establishing the relation between diet and health but also in evaluating patient’ s nutritional status in clinical setting’

Dietary assessment is concerned not only with the amount and types of foods consumed but also with the nutritional components present in these foods.

Thus, estimates of nutrient intake can be obtained by combining food consumption data with the nutrient composition data of those food. These are several methods available to collect food consumption data however, not even a single errorless method has yet been discovered for diet measurements.

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