Self-report-based estimates of energy intake offer an inadequate basis for scientific conclusions
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Current dietary assessment methods cannot accurately or precisely measure energy intake outside the laboratory.
“However, current dietary assessment methods are insufficient to accurately or precisely measure energy intake outside the laboratory (Schoeller, 1990; Schoeller et al., 2013) and adherence to study diets cannot be guaranteed in free-living subjects.”
From Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intake and Weight Gain: An Inpatient Randomized Controlled Trial of Ad Libitum Food Intake (2019) · cites this paper as Schoeller et al., 2013
The section “Might the reporting error have increased in recent years?” says self-reported energy-intake data have too much systematic error to track energy balance. The Conclusions also call self-reported intake fatally flawed, but identify other validated tools to develop for measuring intake in free-living people. The source therefore supports the claim about self-report methods, not its blanket statement about all current dietary assessment methods. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Schoeller, D. A., Thomas, D., Archer, E., Heymsfield, S. B., Blair, S. N., Goran, M. I., Hill, J. O., Atkinson, R. L., Corkey, B. E., Foreyt, J., Dhurandhar, N. V., Kral, J. G., Hall, K. D., Hansen, B. C., Heitmann, B. L., Ravussin, E., & Allison, D. B.
- Affiliations
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Montclair State University (US)
- University of South Carolina (US)
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- University of Colorado Anschutz (US)
- Boston University (US)
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University (US)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- University of South Florida (US)
- Frederiksberg Hospital (DK)
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- Corresponding author
- Allison, David B
- ORCID
- Venue
- The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-06
- Volume
- 97
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1413-1415
- ISSN
- 0002-9165 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6546220
- OpenAlex
- W2066429496
- Cited by
- 177
- References
- 16
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- FWCI
- 22.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
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- Locations
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- NIH
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutrition and Health Studies
- Keywords
- dietary assessment, energy intake estimation, underreporting, self-report validity, energy balance
- MeSH terms
- Energy Intake, Humans, Nutrition Surveys, Reproducibility of Results, Self Report
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