Need for Research in Nutrition

Reducing Measurement Error in Nutrition Assessment: Potential Research Implications for Iran

Self-reported measures of dietary intake are prone to measurement error that may obscure the relationship of diet and disease. This review addresses strategies to decrease errors during collection of dietary data and statistical approaches to deal with measurement issues once the data are collected.  Examples from two US studies-- the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Dietary Modificat...

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Discrepancies in nutritional recommendations: the need for evidence based nutrition.

The widespread acceptance that 'evidence-based medicine' should determine all aspects of clinical practice leads to a consideration as to whether 'evidence-based nutrition' should be based on similar principles. Randomised controlled trials (RCT) are universally regarded as the gold standard by which to determine whether a drug is appropriate in a particular clinical situation. The evidence for...