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Urinary metabolic profiling using 1H-NMR spectroscopy can objectively classify dietary patterns into low or high non-communicable disease risk categories, providing a more accurate assessment than self-reported dietary data.
Instead of relying solely on food diaries or memory of what you ate, objective metabolic profiling of urine can accurately determine your dietary pattern and associated health risks. This method bypasses the common errors of self-reporting, such as forgetting snacks or misjudging portion sizes, offering a more reliable way to assess adherence to healthy eating guidelines.
Urinary metabolite models developed in a highly controlled environment can classify groups of free-living people into consumers of diets associated with lower or higher non-communicable disease risk on the basis of multivariate metabolite patterns.
Why this rating
Randomized controlled crossover trial with external validation cohorts, though sample size is small (n=19).
Source
Objective assessment of dietary patterns by use of metabolic phenotyping: a randomised, controlled, crossover trial
Isabel García‐Pérez et al. · The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology · 2017
DOI 10.1016/s2213-8587(16)30419-3
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