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VELAZCO GUTIERREZ, Yuly. Food research in Venezuela. Perspectives and challenges. An Venez Nutr [online]. 2020, vol.33, n.1, pp.31-40.  Epub 01-Abr-2021. ISSN 0798-0752.

Dietary assessment is one of the most important tools in nutritional epidemiology; its practice continues to be a challenge for nutrition professionals, who are currently facing changes in the epidemiological profile of the population, scientific and technological advances, scarcity of resources and social inequalities. Dietary studies, like any other type of evaluative research, have their validity and reliability compromised in the face of technical and methodological weaknesses that must be addressed during design and execution. Venezuela, like the rest of the Latin American countries, has a long history of food research, finding studies that differ in objectives, sample size, type of sampling, applied techniques, statistical treatment, analysis and use of information. Currently, the need to approach the real consumption of food and nutrients by the Venezuelan population is indisputable; having a baseline is essential for the formulation, implementation and evaluation of effective intervention strategies to achieve higher levels of nutritional health and the prevention of diseases that guarantee an active and productive life for the population. The new demands and challenges call for the permanent revision of concepts, approaches and protocols for dietary assessment. The invitation is to travel through the fascinating field of food research and take the best of both worlds: the scientific rigor that always had to be maintained and the opportunities and challenges that characterize the new times.

Palabras clave : Food research; dietary assessment; perspectives; challenges; Venezuela.

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