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Importance of Topic to Practice
Nutrition assessment is defined as “a systematic method for obtaining, verifying, and interpreting data needed to identify nutrition related problems, their causes, and significance” (1). From a nutrition assessment, a dietitian can determine whether a nutrition problem exists and label it as a nutrition diagnosis, which can be resolved or improved through nutrition intervention (1,2). The International Terminology of Nutrition and Dietetics includes 60