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Nutrition |
study of food substances essential for health includes study of digestion, absorption, transportation, metabolism, and storage of nutrients and waste |
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Essential nutrient |
what the body requires for growth and maintenance must be supplied by foods in diet |
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Nonessential nutrient |
nutrients taht the body makes |
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nutrients classified |
water carbs lipids proteins vitamins minerals |
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carbs, lipids, and proteins provide |
energy |
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Vitamins and minerals |
do not provide energy but used for specific metabolic function, health promotion, and disease prevention |
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Recommended dietary allowance (RDA) |
daily dietary intake that is sufficient to meet the nutrient requirements of 97-98% of all healthy individuals |
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Estimated safe and adequate dilay dietary intake (ESADDI) |
provides a range of recommended intake for some nutrients |
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Dietary reference intakes (DRIs) |
bases for the amount of dietary in take that is sufficient to meet the nutritional requirements of the body |
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Healthy People is |
national health initiative under the US department of health and human services |
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Healthy People 2010 |
US has met 71% of the goal toward the goal of reducing health disparities for more than 1/2 of the special population identified to be at increased risk |
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Healthy People 2020 |
1. attain high-quality longer lives free of preventable disease 2. health equity 3. create social and physical environments that promote health 4. quality of life |
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Determinants of health (DOH) |
factors- bio,soc,personal,environment, and economic that influence a person's health status |
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DOH categories |
policy making social factors health services individual behaviors biology genetics |
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health depends on factors... |
adequate diet family health history level of activity life style behaviors |
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Basal metabolic rate |
rate at which the body uses energy to support its involuntary activities that are necessary to life breathing and digestion |
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Biological factors |
GI motility and caloric absorption |
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Physiological domain |
media dictates ideal body image food linked with personal emotional esperiences |
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sociocultural, religious, and spiritual domains |
foods are different from recommended habits are culturally based primary concern is if food is nutritious and do not aggravate any underlying health conditions |
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Environmental domain |
low fat products new mandatory food labels fast food |
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Technical domain |
technology changed how food is produced and how fast its produced |
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Anorexia nervosa |
refusal to eat can purge 1% of woman have this |
