Foods and nutrients / Walter Willet and I. Marilyn Buzzard -- Nature of variation in diet -- 24-hour dietary recall and food record methods / Buzzard -- Food frequency methods -- Reproducibility and validity of food-frequency questionnaires / Willett and Elizabeth Lenart -- Recall of remote of diet -- Surrogate sources of dietary information / Jonathan M. Samet and Anthony J. Alberg -- Biochemical indicators of dietary intake / David Hunter -- Anthropometric measures and body composition -- Implications of total energy intake for epidemiologic analysis / Willett and Meir Stampfer -- Correction for the effects of measurement error -- Issues in analysis and presentation of dietary data -- Nutrition monitoring and surveillance / Tim Byers -- Vitamin A and lung cancer / Willett and Graham Colditz -- Dietary fat and breast cancer -- Diet and coronary heart disease -- Folic acid and neural tube defects -- Future research directions
Summary
The complex relationships between diet and the major diseases of western civilization are the subject of this volume. It is aimed both at researchers and general readers of the often confusing scholarly literature on the subject