title: The dietary survey and the assessment of food intake in the pre-school child. A review.
abstract: To obtain an accurate record of an individual's food intake in the assessment of his nutritional status is a difficult task. To obtain such a record for an infant is more difficult still, involving the close cooperation between the investigator and the infant's mother. Why there has been little progression in methodology from the earliest days of recording individual food intakes is discussed and areas of improvements are suggested. Accuracy could be improved if techniques were streamlined and objectives more clearly defined. Dietary surveys could provide data of value to other workers in the field by using conventions in data collection and in the reporting of results.
mesh_terms: D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004034:Diet Surveys / Q000379:methods*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005504:Food Analysis; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011939:Mental Recall; D009313:National Health Programs; D009749:Nutrition Surveys / Q000379:methods*; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D006113:United Kingdom