Advances in the Assessment of Dietary Intake.

<p>Diet is a major factor in health and disease. Controlled long-term studies in humans are impractical and investigators have utilized long-term epidemiological investigations to study the contributions of diet to the human condition. Such studies while valuable have often been limited by contradictory findings; a limitation secondary to systematic errors in traditional self-reported dietary assessment tools that limit the percentage of variances in diseases explained by diet. New approaches are available to help overcome these limitations and <b><i>Advances in the Assessment of Dietary Intake</i></b> is focused on these advances in an effort to provide more accurate dietary data to understand human health. </p><p>Chapters cover the benefits and limitations of traditional self-report tools; strategies for improving the validity of dietary recall and food recording methods; objective methods to assess food and nutrient intake; assessment of timing and meal patterns using glucose sensors; and physical activity patterns using validated accelerometers. </p><p>Advances in the Assessment of Dietary Intake describes new avenues to investigate the role of diet in human health and serves as the most up-to-date reference and teaching tool for these methods that will improve the accuracy of dietary assessment and lay the ground work for future studies. </p>