Can you help with this question?

Dietay assessment can provide useful
information about:

A. a child's eating pattern

B. physical symptoms of nutritional
deficiences.

I am confused with this question because I thought clinical assessments
provided information on physical
symptoms of nutritional deficiences.

Would a dietary assesment provide
useful physical symptoms of nutritional deficiences or provide useful information on a child's eating pattern? Would the correct answer to the question be: A or B?

http://www.faqs.org/nutrition/Diab-Em/Dietary-Assessment.html

A dietary assessment is just ONE Of four parts of a clincial assessment. The clinical assessment focuses on B, the dietary assessment on A.

so the correct answer to my question would be: (A) a child's eating pattern?

Did you read the information at the link Bobpursley provided??

Please read (or reread) it and rethink your answer.

Let us know what you come up with.

a child's eating pattern

Read the response from yesterday:

http://www.jiskha.com/display.cgi?id=1176486492

That is the best answer here. What a kid eats, and when is the dietary assessment. The nutrition assessment (in a clinical setting) consists of the dietary assessment, and three other assessments as in the link. We are what we eat to a large extent.

Yes, I can help with this question. Based on the information provided, a dietary assessment would provide useful information about a child's eating pattern, which would be the correct answer.

A dietary assessment focuses specifically on the foods and drinks consumed by an individual, as well as the timing and quantity of those intakes. It helps to identify patterns and habits in a person's eating behaviors.

On the other hand, clinical assessments, which are more comprehensive, assess physical symptoms of nutritional deficiencies among other things.

So, in this case, the correct answer to the question would be (A) a child's eating pattern.