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Dietary reference intake DRI |
A set of nutritient-based values that serve for both assessing and planning diets |
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Nutrient |
Chemical compound or element found in food that is necessary for good health |
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Essential nutrients |
Nutrients that the body cannot make in the amounts essential for good health, therefore necessary to obtain through diet |
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Glycogen |
Animal starch, stored for of carbs. Stored in liver and muscles. Used when glucose is low |
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Dietary fiber |
Foods that humans cannot breakdown (digest ) |
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Carbs CHO |
Organic compounds containing carbon hydrogen &oxygen |
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Saccharides |
Sugar units |
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Monosaccharides |
Only 1 sugar unit |
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Disaccharides |
2 sugar units bonded together |
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Polysaccharides |
Made of long chains of sugar (glucose) units |
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Lipids |
Organic substances of a fatty nature that are insoluble in water and necessary for good health |
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Satiety |
Feeling of fullness and satisfaction from food |
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Hydrogenation |
Synthetic trans fatty acids are produced |
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Cholesterol |
Lipids belonging to a class of chemical substances called sterols |
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Lipoprotein |
Are molecules made of lipids surrounded by protein |
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Amino acids |
Building blocks of protein 20 total, but only 9 are essential |
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Vegan |
Excludes all animal products |
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Nitrogen balance |
Nitrogen equilibrium, achieve ed when amount of nitrogen (protein )taken in is equal to amount of nitrogen excreted in the urine |
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Anabolism |
The body is building more tissue than it is breaking down |
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Catabolism |
Insufficient protein is being taken in and the body is breaking down more tissue than it is building |
