Assessing Changing Food Consumption Patterns

Committee on Food Consumption Patterns, Food and Nutrition Board, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 1 Introduction; 3 2 Characteristics of a System for Measuring Food Consumption Patterns; 4 3 Relating Food Consumption Data and Nutritional Status Data; 5 4 The Proposed System; 6 5 Some Study Design Characteristics; 7 6 Data Base Requirements; 8 7 Conclusions and Recommendations; 9 References; 10 Appendix A: Background Papers for Workshop on Methods for the Collection of Aggregate Data on Food Consumption; 11 Appendix B: Background Papers for Workshop on Evaluation of Methods for Obtaining Food Consumption Data; 12 Appendix C: Background Papers for Workshop on Nutrition and Health Status Indicators; 13 Appendix D: Participants and Observers