Dietary intake throughout childhood is a key determinant of growth and development and has an important role in both the prevention and treatment of childhood overweight and obesity. Although dietary ...

assessment is the requirement to be explicit in all the evaluations and judgments that must be made to document conclusions. Risk assessment is a scientific undertaking having as its objective a ...

Conducting an intake assessment—after the available scientific data have allowed the estimation of reference values (see Chapters 5 and 6)—is one of the hallmarks of nutrient risk assessment.