Better health and ageing for all Australians

Nutrition and Healthy Eating

Evaluation of short dietary questions from the 1995 National Nutrition Survey

Six of the short dietary questions used in the 1995 National Nutrition Survey were evaluated for relative validity both directly and indirectly and for consistency, by documenting the differences in mean intakes of foods and nutrients as measured on the 24-hour recall, between groups with different responses to the short questions.

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Prepared by Ingrid HE Rutishauser, Dr Karen Webb, Bonnie Abraham and Rick Allsopp, Australian Food and Nutrition Monitoring Unit for Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
2001
ISBN: 0 642 82051 1

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