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6 Data Base Requirements
6 Data Base Requirements
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Data are much less complete for commercially prepared items, although much more information is becoming available as a result of nutrition labeling of many food products. For a number of the nutrients for which dietary requirements have more recently been identified, analytical data are fragmentary.
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The incomplete nature of available data banks currently limits the attainment of accurate and useful nutrient intake data. Current data bases must be expanded to include some information on formulated, processed, and ethnic foods as well as mass-produced fast food items and products prepared for institutional use.
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Simplified analyses based on dietary scores or the use of indicator nutrients warrant further investigation to enhance the usefulness of the data for various purposes. 31 Nutrient Requirement Estimates It is customary in evaluating data on dietary intake to compare calculated nutrient intakes to the Food and Nutrition Board's Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA)
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Per-capita availability can be determined from these audits and warehouse withdrawal data. Aggregated consumer food purchase and usage data are collected by consumer purchase panels.
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Information on, for example, the consumption of all foods at restaurants, or the consumption of all beverages at home or away from home, is summarized into standard reports designed to satisfy selected information needs of a given industry, such as soft drink manufacturers or restaurant operators. HEALTH STATUS DATA BASES Indicators of health status are objective measures of the state of health of a population.
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The general types of food consumption information desired for useful analyses can be divided into three groups: 1. Feeding behavior, which includes the pattern of meals within a family, the type of infant feeding, the frequency of eating, the proportion and location of meals eaten outside the home, snacking patterns, food preparation, and many others; 2.
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For example, fetal nutritional experience seems to offer an excellent prospect for studying chronic disease within a realistic time cycle. Surveillance of various indices of infant birth and mortality, linked to birth certificate data, and study of these data in a comprehensive way could shorten the long observation periods needed to collect mortality and morbidity perspectively in adult populations (Hawthorne, 198 1~.
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The many health data files that exist in the United States should be cataloged and those that may provide data for relating health status to food consumption patterns identified. It is recommended that a special work group be established to evaluate current health statistical information and recommend a system whereby these data can be collated in a manner that will permit identifying population segments showing unusual health patterns.
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