DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Encyclopedia, Food Safety, Healthy Diet

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Eating iether too much or too little food or certain types of food. Which components of our diet are involved. Diet: the total consumption of food and drink, expressed in terms of food or nutients and other food constitutents, by an individual or a (sub-)population (ie what is actually consumed) Food: the variety of foods made available by the agricultural sector and/or food processing industry (i. e. the products available to the general public) Healthy diet: when the consumption by the individual or (sub-)population, with regard to the quantity and composition of all nutrients and other constitutents, is optimal for human health. Safe food: when quantities of micro-organisms, chemical substances or other harmful constituents do not exceed levels of likely to affect human health, on or in the foods offered or consumed. Focus on nutrition (plus physical activity) to pormote good health and to prevent disease. Introduction to human nutrition gibney et al.

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