Gibson Rosalind S. (ed.) Principles of Nutritional Assessment

2nd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2005. — 929 p. — ISBN: 9780195171693This is a comprehensive text on the methods - dietary, anthropometric, laboratory and clinical - of assessing the nutritional status of populations and of individuals in the hospital or the community. The second edition incorporates recent data from national nutritional surveys in the US and Europe; the flood of new information about iron, vitamin A and iodine; the role of folate in preventing neural tube defects; the use of HPLC techniques and enzyme assays; improvements in data handling; and many other developments since 1990.Food Consumption at the National and household levels
Measuring Food Consumption of individuals
Assessment of nutrient intakes from food consumption data
Measurement errors in dietary assessment
Reproducibility in Dietary assessment
Validity in dietary assessment methods
Evaluation of nutrient intakes and diets
Anthropometric Assessment
Anthropometric Assessment of body size
Anthropometric Assessment of body composition
Anthropometric Reference Data
Evaluation of Anthropometric indices
Laboratory Assessment of Body Composition
Laboratory Assessment
Assessment of protein status
Assessment of iron status
Assessment of the status of Vitamins A, D and E
Assessment of Vitamin C status
Assessment of the status of thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin
Assessment of Vitamin B6 status
Assessment of folate and Vitamin B12 status
Assessment of calcium, phosphorus and magnesium status
Assessment of chronium, copper and zinc status
Assessment of iodine and selenium status
Clinical assessment
Nutritional assessment of hospital patients