NUTR 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Food Safety, Trans Fat, Omega-3 Fatty Acid
17 Sep 2016
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Health promotion activities aimed at preventing a specific illness or disease. Precedes disease; applied to generally healthy individuals. Session on healthy eating to prevent cancer. Activities focused on early identification of health problems identify and treat individuals who have asymptomatic/preclinical disease. Screening for a specific illness (i. e. type 2 diabetes) Educating of an individual with the disease with the goal of returning individual to optimum level of functioning. Educating people with type 2 diabetes how to identify and prevent complications. Referring a person who has had a stroke to rehab centre. Ministry of health and long term care. Researchers, industry, medical community, professional organizations, government. Elevated blood pressure cvd, stroke, kidney disease. Some evidence risk factor osteoporosis, stomach cancer. Interim goal: population mean intake of sodium to 2,300 mg/day. Long term goal: reduce sodium intake to a population mean whereby 95% of the population have daily intake less than ul (2,300 mg/d)
