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Here is where you can get up to date on Intake's most recent news and announcements. We also provide links below to selected recent publications and news articles, and other noteworthy items and events relevant to the collection, analysis and use of dietary data.

News & Announcements

A Study Protocol to Validate a Passive Dietary Assessment Method

February 9, 2020

This newly published article describes a study protocol developed to validate a passive dietary assessment method for estimating food and nutrient intake in LMICs. The research to be carried out aims to advance low cost, objective, fast, and accurate methods for collecting and analyzing dietary intake data in LMICs.

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Intake Survey Guidance Document: Estimating Usual Intakes from Dietary Surveys - Methodologic Challenges, Analysis Approaches, and Recommendations for LMICs

January 31, 2020

This newly released Intake survey guidance document provides a description of the methodologic challenges to estimating usual intakes from dietary surveys and recommendations for how to address these challenges in the context of quantitative 24-hour recall dietary surveys in LMICs. Guidance on the minimum number of repeat 24-hour dietary recalls that are needed to estimate the distribution of usual intake is also provided, both in the context of ubiquitously consumed…

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Schematic of the different pre-survey tasks required

Intake Survey Guidance Document: An Overview of the Main Pre-Survey Activities Required for a Quantitative 24-Hour Recall Dietary Survey

January 30, 2020

This newly released Intake survey guidance document provides an overview of the main pre-survey tasks required for large-scale quantitative 24-hour recall dietary surveys in LMICs.

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Intake Survey Guidance Document: Key Considerations for the Planning and Design of a Dietary Survey

January 29, 2020

Intake has published a new survey guidance document to provide an overview of key considerations for the planning and design of quantitative 24-hour recall dietary surveys in LMICs .

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New Lancet Series - The Double Burden of Malnutrition

January 3, 2020

The Lancet has published a four paper series to explore how the double burden of malnutrition is affecting low- and middle-income countries. Along with this four paper series, the Lancet published a commentary titled, "A Nutrition Manifesto for a New Nutrition Reality."

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