LIFESCI 4W03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Saturated Fat, Health Canada, Health Literacy
16 Sep 2016
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The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information needed to make health decisions . What: obtaining knowledge to make healthy decisions, providing current and appropriate information and applying it to life, discerning or understanding the quality of health information. Differentiating between valid health information in comparison to social trends or myths: knowing how to access health information. Why is it important: prevent disease, understanding the supplement industry and the correct amounts of each nutrients. There is a positive relationship between health literacy and health status. Health literacy is associated with healthy eating index scores and sugar-sweetened beverage intake: findings from the rural lower mississippi delta (image on slide 10) Janet pritchard: whole fruit intake, vegetable intake, total fat intake, and oil intake have a positive relationship with health literacy, whereas saturated fat intake, sodium intake has a negative relationship with health literacy.
