Roberge A G, Sevigny J, Seoane N, Richard L
Prog Food Nutr Sci. 1984;8(1-2):27-42.
In past decades, the main objectives of nutrition surveys were to define nutritional status at the time of the study, to cross-sectionally describe dietary patterns of consumption and food preparation practices, and to identify areas for improvement. Nowadays, the need for ongoing evaluation of nutritional status of individuals and of population is gaining recognition. The present paper, in discussing usefulness and limitations of dietary intake data, will focus on the importance of considering nutrition as a component of overall quality of life as well as a discipline that gains to be integrated to other disciplinary fields such as medicine, biochemistry, immunology, anthropometry and agribusiness. In this respect, the present paper will discuss the methodology of dietary data collection, the various uses of dietary data collected at the individual, community and general population levels and finally will try to define new vistas in regard to emphasis and tools for future dietary intake studies.
在过去几十年中，营养调查的主要目标是确定研究时的营养状况，横断面描述饮食消费模式和食物制备方法，并确定需要改进的领域。如今，对个体和人群营养状况进行持续评估的需求日益得到认可。本文在讨论膳食摄入数据的有用性和局限性时，将重点关注把营养视为整体生活质量的一个组成部分以及一门需要与医学、生物化学、免疫学、人体测量学和农业综合企业等其他学科领域相结合的学科的重要性。在这方面，本文将讨论膳食数据收集方法、在个体、社区和一般人群层面收集的膳食数据的各种用途，最后将尝试确定未来膳食摄入研究在重点和工具方面的新前景。
