Dietary Reference Intakes: Applications in Dietary Assessment (Dietary Reference Intakes Series) - Hardcover

Institute Of Medicine; Food And Nutrition Board; Standing Committee On The Scientific Evaluation Of Dietary Reference Intakes; Subcommittee On Interpretation And Uses Of Dietary Reference Intakes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0309073111 ISBN 13: 9780309073110

Publisher: National Academies Press, 2001

Synopsis

Since 1994 the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board has been involved in developing an expanded approach to developing dietary reference standards. This approach, the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs), provides a set of four nutrient-based reference values designed to replace the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) in the United States and the Recommended Nutrient Intakes (RNIs) in Canada. These reference values include Estimated Average Requirement (EAR), Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA), Adequate Intake (AI), and Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL). To date, several volumes in this series have been published.

This new book, Applications in Dietary Assessment, provides guidance to nutrition and health research professionals on the application of the new DRIs. It represents both a "how to" manual and a "why" manual. Specific examples of both appropriate and inappropriate uses of the DRIs in assessing nutrient adequacy of groups and of individuals are provided, along with detailed statistical approaches for the methods described. In addition, a clear distinction is made between assessing individuals and assessing groups as the approaches used are quite different. Applications in Dietary Assessment will be an essential companion to any-or all-of the DRI volumes.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• Summary
• I. Historical Perspective and Background
• 1 Introduction and Background
• 2 Current Uses of Dietary Reference Standards
• II. Application of DRIs for Individual Diet Assessment
• 3 Using Dietary Reference Intakes for Nutrient Assessment of Individuals
• III. Application of DRIs for Group Diet Assessment
• 4 Using the Estimated Average Requirement for Nutrient Assessment of Groups
• 5 Using the Adequate Intake for Nutrient Assessment of Groups
• 6 Using the Tolerable Upper Intake Level for Nutrient Assessment of Groups
• 7 Specific Applications: Assessing Nutrient Intakes of Groups Using the Dietary Reference Intakes
• IV. Fine-Tuning Dietary Assessment Using the DRIs
• 8 Minimizing Potential Errors in Assessing Group and Individual Intakes
• 9 Research Recommended to Improve the Uses of Dietary Reference Intakes
• 10 References
• Appendix A: Origin and Framework of the Development of Dietary Reference Intakes
• Appendix B: Nutrient Assessment of Individuals: Statistical Foundations
• Appendix C: Assessing Prevalence of Inadequate Intakes for Groups: Statistical Foundations
• Appendix D: Assessing the Performance of the EAR Cut-Point Method for Estimating Prevalence
• Appendix E: Units of Observation: Assessing Nutrient Adequacy Using Household and Population Data
• Appendix F: Rationale for Setting Adequate Intakes
• Appendix G: Glossary and Abbreviations
• Appendix H: Biographical Sketches of Subcommittee Members
• Index
• Summary Table: Estimated Average Requirements
• Summary Table: Tolerable Upper Intake Levels
• Summary Table: Recommended Intakes for Individuals

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Book Description

Widely regarded as the classic reference work for the nutrition, dietetic, and allied health professions since its introduction in 1943, Recommended Dietary Allowances has been the accepted source in nutrient allowances for healthy people. Responding to the expansion of scientific knowledge about the roles of nutrients in human health, the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine, in partnership with Health Canada, has updated what used to be known as Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) and renamed their new approach to these guidelines Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs). Since 1998, the Institute of Medicine has issued eight exhaustive volumes of DRIs that offer quantitative estimates of nutrient intakes to be used for planning and assessing diets applicable to healthy individuals in the United States and Canada. Now, for the first time, all eight volumes are summarized in one easy-to-use reference volume, Dietary Reference Intakes: The Essential Reference for Dietary Planning and Assessment. Organized by nutrient for ready use, this popular reference volume reviews the function of each nutrient in the human body, food sources, usual dietary intakes, and effects of deficiencies and excessive intakes. For each nutrient of food component, information includes:

Estimated average requirement and its standard deviation by age and gender.

Recommended dietary allowance, based on the estimated average requirement and deviation.

Adequate intake level, where a recommended dietary allowance cannot be based on an estimated average requirement.

Tolerable upper intake levels above which risk of toxicity would increase. Along with dietary reference values for the intakes of nutrients by Americans and Canadians, this book presents recommendations for health maintenance and the reduction of chronic disease risk. Also included is a “Summary Table of Dietary Reference Intakes,” an updated practical summary of the recommendations. In addition, Dietary Reference Intakes: The Essential Reference for Dietary Planning and Assessment provides information about:

Guiding principles for nutrition labeling and fortification

Applications in dietary planning

Proposed definition of dietary fiber

A risk assessment model for establishing upper intake levels for nutrients

Proposed definition and plan for review of dietary antioxidants and related compounds

Dietitians, community nutritionists, nutrition educators, nutritionists working in government agencies, and nutrition students at the postsecondary level, as well as other health professionals, will find Dietary Reference Intakes: The Essential Reference for Dietary Planning and Assessment an invaluable resource.

About the Author

A Report of the Subcommittees on Interpretation and Uses of Dietary Reference Intakes and Upper Reference Levels of Nutrients, and the Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes, Food and Nutrition Board

Edition details

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0309073111
• ISBN 13: 9780309073110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 305