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Review
. 2018 Aug 10;10(8):1064.
doi: 10.3390/nu10081064.

Narrative Review of New Methods for Assessing Food and Energy Intake

M Carolina Archundia Herrera  1 , Catherine B Chan  2   3
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Narrative Review of New Methods for Assessing Food and Energy Intake

M Carolina Archundia Herrera et al. Nutrients. .

Abstract

Dietary self-report instruments are essential to nutritional analysis in dietetics practice and their use in research settings has facilitated numerous important discoveries related to nutrition, health and chronic diseases. An important example is obesity, for which measuring changes in energy intake is critical for assessing efficacy of dietary interventions. However, current methods, including counting calories, estimating portion size and using food labels to estimate human energy intake have considerable constraints; consequently, research on new methodologies/technologies has been encouraged to mitigate the present weaknesses. The use of technologies has prompted innovation in dietary analysis. In this review, the strengths and limitations of new approaches have been analyzed based on ease of use, practical limitations, and statistical evaluation of reliability and validity. Their utility is discussed through the lens of the 4Ms of Obesity Assessment and Management, which has been used to evaluate root causes of obesity and help select treatment options.

Keywords: dietary assessment; energy intake; reliability; validity.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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