National Dietary and Nutrition Surveys - PDF

Source: National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Chapter 4 National Dietary and Nutrition Surveys Chapter 4 Outline 1. Nutritional Monitoring in the US 2. USDA Nutritio...

Source: National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Chapter 4 National Dietary and Nutrition Surveys Chapter 4 Outline 1. Nutritional Monitoring in the US 2. USDA Nutrition Monitoring Activities 3. DHHS Nutrition Monitoring Activities 4. National Nutritional Monitoring and Related Research Program 5. NHANES Today 6. Food Insecurity 7. Other Surveys 2 Objective 1 Nutritional Monitoring in the US 3 3 Nutritional monitoring Assessment of dietary or nutritional status At intermittent times With the aim of Detecting changes in dietary or nutritional status of a population 4  Nutritional monitoring Data generation in 5 general areas: 1. Nutritional and health status measurements 2. Food consumption measurements 3. Food composition measurement and nutrient data banks 4. Dietary knowledge, behavior, attitude assessments 5. Food supply and demand 5 ► OBJECTIVE 2 USDA Nutrition Monitoring Activities 6 6  Nutrition Monitoring History - USDA Nutrition monitoring first by US Dept Agriculture (USDA) Country data: food availability (AKA disappearance or per capita availability) data (late 1800s, early 1900s) Household data: National Household Food Consumption Surveys (1935-1988) Individual data: National Food Consumption Survey, Continuing Survey of Food Intake by Individuals (1965-1996) Diet & Health Knowledge Survey (1989, 1994) 7 ► ► ► ► ► ►