BIOL 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dietary Reference Intake, Physical Activity Level, Cortisol
11 Feb 2016
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Nutrition: refers to how organisms acquire food and use food to support all processes required for their existence. The science of nutrition : the study of the composition of food and nutrients and how the body uses them. Perception: how we feel about the risk regardless of numbers. Cortisol is a hormone produced during times of stress. House clutter has been shown to increase cortisol levels in humans. Organizing your kitchen is the least expensive but very effective step to eating well and by extension living well. Dietary recommendations: they are technical thus not easy to understand ex: eat 16mg of niacin daily. Dietary recommendations in canada and united states are based on. Dri includes a set of standards that tell us: Dietary reference intakes (dri: the amount of a nutrient needed to prevent deficiency disease in healthy people, the amount of a nutrient that may reduce the risk of chronic disease, the upper level of safety for nutrients.
