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Zusatztext This outstanding book is essential reading for graduate students and researchers in the field. It is also a useful resource for any nutritional scientists, epidemiologists, and health professionals who use results of epidemiological studies to make policies that promote healthy eating. Informationen zum Autor Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, is the Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition and Chair of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. Klappentext Willett's Nutritional Epidemiology has become the foundation of this field. This new edition updates existing chapters and adds new ones addressing the assessment of physical activity, the role of genetics in nutritional epidemiology, and the interface of this field with policy. Zusammenfassung Willett's Nutritional Epidemiology has become the foundation of this field. This new edition updates existing chapters and adds new ones addressing the assessment of physical activity, the role of genetics in nutritional epidemiology, and the interface of this field with policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Overview of Nutritional Epidemiology 2. Foods and Nutrients Walter C. Willett and Laura Sampson 3. Nature of Variation in Diet 4. 24-Hour Recall and Diet Record Methods Tom Baranowski 5. Food Frequency Methods 6. Reproducibility and Validity of Food-Frequency Questionnaires Walter Willett and Elizabeth Lenart 7. Recall of Remote Diet 8. Biochemical Indicators of Dietary Intake Rob M. Van Dam and David Hunter 9. Anthropometric Measures and Body Composition Walter Willett and Frank Hu 10. Assessment of Physical Activity in Nutritional Epidemiology Frank Hu 11. Implications of Total Energy Intake for Epidemiologic Analyses 12. Correction for the Effects of Measurement Error 13. Issues in Analysis and Presentation of Dietary Data 14. Genetics in Dietary Analyses 15. Nutrition Monitoring and Surveillance Tim Byers and Rebecca L. Sedjo 16. Policy Applications 17. Vitamin A and Lung Cancer Walter Willett and Graham Colditz 18. Dietary Fat and Breast Cancer 19. Diet and Coronary Heart Disease 20. Folic Acid and Neural Tube Defects Walter C. Willett and Elizabeth Lenart 21. Future Research Directions Index ...
