| The article introduces the assessment methods for athletes' intake of food and nutritions, including assessment methods for food intake, problems in dietary assessment, special questions regarding athletes' food intake and dietary analysis. There are quite a few dietary assessment methods, such as keeping minutes of food intake, 24-hour dietary review and questionnaire for food-intake frequency, etc. In the process of dietary assessment, misinformation, snacks, frankness of declaration and the time and scope of assessment are the issues that are worth noticing.Besides, special questions in athletes' different training cycles, liquid intake, nutritional supplements and weight control need to be taken into consideration. In order to make dietary assessment more effective, appropriate food ingredients data base and nutritional analysis software are indispensable. A correct and general nutritional assessment is very important in order to know athletes' nutritional status and offer suggestions for diet. |
