Psychology 2054A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dietary Reference Intake, Healthy Diet, Osteoporosis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2054A/B
• Professor: Foley

Document Summary

70 multiple-choice questions, some fill in the blank. You may not know it, but over the years the effects of you"re eating habits can seriously impair the quality of your life. Sets of yardsticks used as standards for measuring healthy people"s energy and nutrient intakes. Nutrient experts use the recommendations to assess intakes and to offer advice on amounts to consume. People can use them to know how much of a nutrient they need to consume, and how much is too much. These nutrient recommendations for water, vitamins, total energy, macronutrients, and minerals are derived by the dietary reference intakes (dri), used by canada and the us nutrient intake standards for healthy people. Dri is set by nutrition experts from canada and us. Dri committee has set values for the vitamins and minerals, carbohydrates, fibre, lipids, proteins, water and energy.