Abstract
Objective: To investigate the situations and utilization of the published reports describing dietary intake quantitatively in infants and young children, which contains useful information for observation of transition about dietary intake, development of dietary reference intakes and exposure assessment of chemical contaminants in foods.
Methods: We searched applicable articles published during the first issue-2010 on Eiyougaku-Zasssi, Nihon-Eiyou-Syokuryou-Gakkaishi and Syouni-Hoken-Kenkyu (searched by hand). We systematically collected relevant articles that were published in other journals from the Igaku-Chuo-Zassi and MEDLINE databases.
Results: We selected 25 articles in which nutrient intake and/or food intake were described (hand searched, 21; from Igaku-Chuo-Zassi, 3; from MEDLINE, 0; and from references cited in other articles, 1). Specifically, nutrient and food intake were described in 15 articles, and either of them was described in 10 articles. Twenty articles were published before 2003. Overall, 19 articles focused on young children and 6, on infants. Three articles contained unclear descriptions of the methods of nutrition survey and the grouping of food items.
Conclusions: There were quite a small number of the articles which studied on dietary intake in infants and young children, and the recent publications of the articles were fewer. It will be necessary to promote the reports being easily accessible and demonstrating the basic data, resynthesize for adjust and analyze in which the meta analysis.
