The combination of the dietary intake research and the nutritional status assessment analyses provided an excellent, and possibly the first, example of the complimentary value of having data on both nutrient intakes and biochemical markers of status. The dietary data are important for estimating the prevalence of inadequate intakes of specific nutrients, and for identifying potential fortification vehicles (e.g. wheat flour), and the calculation of the impact of different levels of fortification on the prevalence of inadequate or excessive intakes of each nutrient. The biochemical data were...

This report represents an overview of the First National Nutrition Survey (FNNES2000). This survey was a voluntary cross-sectional population survey which provides information on food and nutrient intakes, daily diary on intake of food over one week, and nutrition-related clinical measures of Palestinians on a nationally representative sample of 3620 Palestinians living in selected households and aged 18 -64 years. Data were collected over the 12-month period October 1999 to October 2000. FPNNS2000 is the first and most comprehensive food and nutrition survey ever undertaken on the...