Narrative Review of New Methods for Assessing Food and Energy Intake
Open Access
- 10 August 2018
- Vol. 10 (8), 1064
- https://doi.org/10.3390/nu10081064
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.This publication has 48 references indexed in Scilit:
- What the new obesity guidelines will tell usCurrent Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity, 2013
- Validity of activity monitors in health and chronic disease: a systematic reviewInternational Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2012
- A New Method for Measuring Meal Intake in Humans via Automated Wrist Motion TrackingApplied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 2012
- Estimating changes in free-living energy intake and its confidence intervalThe American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2011
- Design and Conduct of the CALERIE Study: Comprehensive Assessment of the Long-term Effects of Reducing Intake of EnergyThe Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2010
- Need for Technological Innovation in Dietary AssessmentJournal of the American Dietetic Association, 2010
- Toward Objective Monitoring of Ingestive Behavior in Free-living PopulationObesity, 2009
- A novel method to remotely measure food intake of free-living individuals in real time: the remote food photography methodBritish Journal of Nutrition, 2008
- Non-invasive monitoring of chewing and swallowing for objective quantification of ingestive behaviorPhysiological Measurement, 2008
- The Effect of Keeping Food Records on Eating PatternsJournal of the American Dietetic Association, 1998