Foods and Nutrients

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Diets can be viewed as intake of constituent chemicals or as foods, food groups, or dietary patterns.

Nutritional epidemiology is the study of the relationship between diet and health outcomes in human populations.

Examining diet as both constituents and foods provides maximal insight into the relationship between diet and disease.

The purpose of calculating nutrient intakes is to understand the amount of nutrients consumed by individuals or populations.

Examples of constituent chemicals in diets include essential nutrients, non-nutritive components of foods, and contaminants.

Study Notes

Overview of Diet and Nutrient Intake in Nutritional Epidemiology

The text discusses the various perspectives from which diet can be viewed in nutritional epidemiology.
Diets of human populations are complex and can be viewed as intake of constituent chemicals or as foods, food groups, or dietary patterns.
Examining diet both as constituents and as foods provides the most insight into the relationship between diet and disease.
The chapter also discusses the calculation of nutrient intakes from data on food consumption.
Nutrient intakes are calculated by considering the intake of essential nutrients, non-nutritive components of foods, and contaminants.
Nutritional epidemiology focuses on studying the relationship between diet and disease.
The book "Foods and Nutrients" by Walter Willett and Laura Sampson explores the field of nutritional epidemiology.
The book was published in 2012 and is available on Oxford Scholarship Online.
The print ISBN-13 is 9780199754038.
The chapter in question is Chapter 2 of the book.
The chapter provides an abstract and keywords for easy reference.
The chapter DOI is 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199754038.003.0002.

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