This is a comprehensive text on the methods - dietary, anthropometric, laboratory and clinical - of assessing the nutritional status of populations and of individuals in the hospital or the community. This emSecond Editionem incorporates recent data from national nutritional surveys in the US and Europe the flood of new information about iron, vitamin A and iodine the role of folate in preventing neural tube defects the use of HPLC techniques and enzyme assays improvements in data handling and many other developments. br A paperback edition of this book is available to readers living outside of North America and Europe. Interested parties should contact the author at rsgibsonnutrition.earthlight.co.nz http nutrition.earthlight.co.nz