Define Changing Trends in Dietary Intake?
As a practicing dietician, you must be sensitive to the society as a whole. The fat requirements have been worked out with a premise of traditional moderate cost US diet. Contemporary society showing nutritional transition and access to fast foods and fried snacks while eating out is in vogue. This leads to an increased intake of saturated fatty acid, milk and milk products, flesh foods and sugar at the cost of whole cereals, millets and pulses. This is likely to decrease EFA intake from invisible sources and raise SFA. The total calories are also high, especially if alcohol consumption is also on a rise.