HN 196 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cholesterol, Gluten, Maple Syrup
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Nutrition 196 - designing a healthful diet (chapter 2) Provides enough energ(cid:455), nutrients and fi(cid:271)er to support a person"s health. A diet is adequate in one area can still be inadequate in another. A diet adequate for one person may not be adequate for another: moderate. A healthful diet contains the right amounts for maintaining proper weight and nutrition: balanced. Contains the right combination of foods to provide the proper proportions of nutrients: varied. Key word: variety which in this case means eating many different foods from the different food groups on a regular basis. A healthful diet is not based on only one/a few types of foods. Useful tools for designing a healthful diet include: food labels, 2015 dietary guidelines for americans, the usda food patterns and myplate graphic, other eating plans, *these are the main sections of the chapter.
