Nutrition Assessment Tools

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Applied Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health	Diet History Questionnaire Food frequency questionnaire and supporting software and nutrient databases for estimating nutrient and food group intake based on the questionnaire. (more)	Jul 21, 2004
	Food Surveys Research Group, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Fast Facts, Reports/Articles, and Tables (2003-2004) Includes 1)Factsheet on What We Eat in America NHANES 2003-2004; 2) Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies, 2.0; 3) Tables of Nutrient intakes. (more) Publication Date: Friday, December 14, 2007	Feb 11, 2008
	National Cholesterol Education Program, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health	How You Can Lower Your Cholesterol Levels This website provides information on how to lower cholesterol levels or maintain healthy levels. The Cyber Kitchen section, available at http://nhlbisupport.com/chd1/Tipsheets/cyberkit.htm, includes online tools for assessing nutrition based on portion sizes consumed or on daily diets. Recommendations are given based on the results on how to improve food choices. The Virtual Grocery Store section, available at http://nhlbisupport.com/chd1/Tipsheets/store.htm, includes information on reading and using food labels. The website also includes fact sheets and links to other resources related to lowering cholesterol levels. (more)	Feb 3, 2004
	Circle Group Holdings, Inc.	NATS: Nutrition Analysis Tools and System Database that can be used to analyze the nutrient content of foods, developed at the University of Illinois. The database allows for calculation of nutrient content of foods and combinations of foods by accessing the USDA Handbook #8 and data from other sources. The output are tables that may be saved to your computer or disk. Also on this website are definitions of nutrients and their functions, an energy calculator, instructions for accessing the tools from your cell phone, and other resources. (more)	Nov 17, 2003
	Hartline-Grafton, Heather; Nyman, Rebecca; Briefel, Ronette; Cohen, Rhoda	Prototype Notebook: Short Questions on Dietary Intake, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Report on survey questions used to assess dietary intake, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors for low- income adults. Questions are ranked and information on question source, administration, reliability, validity, sensitivity to change, availability in another language, and other parameters is provided. Questions are listed that are related to fruits and vegetables, grains, legumes, and fiber, variety, fat, calcium food sources, nonalcoholic beverages, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Appendices include "Instruments Inventoried and Question Topic Areas," "Instruments Reviewed But Not Inventoried," "Glossary of Terms Used in the Notebook Template," "Instruments with Questions That Were Not Ranked," and "Citations". (more) Publication Month: September 2004	Sep 15, 2004
	Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch, Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Studies, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health	Pyramid Servings Database for NHANES III Database to support analysis of dietary data from NHANES III based on servings from the Food Guide Pyramid's food groups. The database may be downloaded in its entirety or as a subset that includes only those codes in NHANES III without one-to-one matches in CSFII. SAS programs are available for supporting the analysis. The database may also be searched online for desired foods and food servings. (more)	Jul 21, 2004
	Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch, Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Studies, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health	Short Dietary Assessment Instruments Short instruments for assessing dietary intake of fruits and vegetables and percent energy from fat.	Jul 21, 2004
	International Network of Food Data Systems, Food and Nutrition Division, Economic and Social Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	Software Related to Food Composition and Nutrition This page links to software applications related to nutrition assessment and food composition.	Feb 3, 2004
	Food Surveys Research Group, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	What's In The Foods You Eat Search Tool, 1.0 Searchable database of nutrient values in 13,000 foods based on the Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies and the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. (more) Deadline: Tuesday, August 16, 2005	Aug 16, 2005
	Food Surveys Research Group, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	What's In The Foods You Eat Search Tool, 2.0 Based on the Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) 2.0 used to process and analyze the 2003-2004 What We Eat in America, NHANES dietary intake data. User can search the database both online and offline. (more)	Feb 11, 2008

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