NFS284H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Junk Food, Negative Energy, Cholesterol
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Determined by the institute of medicine (iom) by canadian and american scientists beginning in the 1990s and continuing today. Types and amounts of foods to maintain health. For planning and assessing diets of healthy individuals. Values for different life stages/males or females. Statistics: normal distribution, median intake (most frequent int, variance/standard dev. Both graphs have the same median, however, they both have different standard deviation. This means more people are eating towards the median than the first graph. Nutrient intake that meets the requirement of 50% of individuals in a group (i. e. sex, age) To estimate the probability that an individual"s usual intake is meeting his/her requirement. To estimate what proportion of a group is meeting their requirements. How is it determined: determine a biochemical criterion that allows you to determine the intake at which an individual"s requirement is being met, determine the requirement distribution from a sample of the population.
