This paper summarizes the steps recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to identify micronutrient shortfalls in the…
This article describes the current status of food fortification in the United States and provides a discussion of the value of fortification; the success of current fortification efforts; and the…
This paper describes a statistical approach to model dietary pattern data when multiple dietary constituents are analyzed simultaneously, using a multivariate error model with zero-inflated…
This paper describes the National Cancer Institute (NCI) method for estimating the usual intake distribution for nutrients.
This paper describes an extension to modeling usual intake distributions for episodically consumed foods, to assess the relationship between usual intake and health outcomes in a regression…
This paper describes the statistical theory that underlies four different modeling methods developed to estimate the distribution of usual intake and reviews the strengths and limitations of each…
This paper describes the appropriate use and interpretation of the Tolerable Upper Intakes defined by the US Institute of Medicine in the Dietary Reference Intakes.
This paper describes an approach for assessing the prevalence of nutrient inadequacy in a group, using the usual nutrient intake distribution and the Estimated Average Requirement (EAR) for a…
This paper reports on the testing of a new method to derive an estimated value for dietary iron bioavailability in low- and middle-income countries.
This paper describes a new method for estimating free and added sugars in the collection and analysis of dietary data.