Self-reported calorie estimation tends to be inaccurate and unreliable, while accurate automated estimation is expensive. Close to half of all Americans are trying to loose weight, and a significant number therefore try to track their calorie intake, self-monitored or with professionals. The Smart Remote Food Photography Method (SRFPM) archives significant accuracy of classification of fast foo...

The European Economic Community (EEC) has made slow progress towards achieving a unified position on the labelling of foods with nutrition information. The Nutrition Labelling Rules Directive (90/496/EEC) was adopted in September 1990, and will take 5 years to become fully implemented. Nutrition labelling will remain voluntary unless a nutrition claim is made, when detailed declarations must be...

Several economical, social and cultural factors that took place in the last decades in developed countries have strongly influenced human diseases profiles. Among those factors, globalization and urban prevalent lifestyles are worth to mention. One of the reflexes turning out from those changes is related to nutritional (mis)behaviors (Lopes et al., 2006). Although other reflexes are also subje...

This peer-reviewed article was written by the Food Fortification Initiative on 19 June 2013 For more information, e-mail [email protected] or see: www.FFInetwork.org Anemia and Public Health An estimated 30% of the world’s population is anemic [1]. Anemia can be caused by nutritional deficiency (e.g., iron, folate, vitamin B12, vitamin A) and non-nutritional factors (e.g., malaria, hookworm, ...

This paper proposes a framework for mining market basket data to generate Nutritional Patterns (NPs) and a method for analysing generated nutritional patterns using Fuzzy Association Rule Mining. Edible attributes are filtered from transactional input data by projections and are then converted to Required Daily Allowance (RDA) numeric values. The RDA database is...

Nutrition labels guide consumers in making their food choice. New requirements for mandatory nutrition labelling have been in force in Australia since late 2002. The present study, analysing 350 samples comprising 70 different products for nutritional compounds declared on the label, is the first larger attempt to quantify the precision in nutrition labelling of food products on the Australian ...

BACKGROUND Some of the Census Enumeration Areas' (CEA) information may help planning the sample of population studies but it can also be used for some analyses that require information that is more difficult to obtain at the individual or household level, such as income. This paper verifies if the income information of CEA can be used as a proxy for household income in a household survey. MET...

Background: Nutritional support of the burn patient is essential to optimize, host immune defenses and to promote prompt wound healing. Furthermore, the increased needs in calorie requirement of burned patients, the composition of proteins, carbohydrates and fats in their diet is important. The purpose of this study was to evaluate energy, macronutrient and micronutrient intake and comparing wi...

The methodology of a study on meal patterns is discussed. For data collection, menu records on the current diet over two periods of 6 weeks each and an additional self-administered questionnaire on various food related aspects were selected as instruments. Information is required concerning e.g. time, kind and frequency of meals during the day, kind and frequency of dishes consumed and the comb...