NUTR 33000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Glycemic Load, Fake Food, Blood Sugar
23 Aug 2016
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Dietary intake methods: these usually pertain to computer assisted techniques and should be highly qualitative and detailed data. Records: this should include every food and beverage consumed by the client. Weighing the food is a method that will help figure out your own personal food portion sizes. Digital photography can help to review the portion size via standard methods. Recalls: this is used to assess diet and clinical trial outcomes. Mostly used short term (24 hour increments) 3 passes: introductory opening sequence, interactive, & food descriptions. Food frequency methods: pertains to more long term food consumptions. This will include questions like what your client enjoys to eat and what they dislike. These are not valuable when there is a small number of participants or short term interventions of nutrient intakes or when absolute nutrient intakes are required. Dietary screeners: these usually pertain to abbreviated questionnaires. This will assess intakes and adherence to recommendations of nutrients.
