KINE 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dietary Reference Intake, Vitamin C, Macular Degeneration
10 Feb 2017
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250 ml (1 cup) of mixed broccoli, carrot and sweet red pepper. Depending on how you cook food, you can lose them. Some raw vegetable vitamins aren"t fully accessible while raw. More than 40 nutrients or health related problems can result. Ie. osteoporosis, various types of cancer, eye problems (cataracts, macular degeneration) Many of these are related to a low intake of fruits and vegetables. *** know the general vitamin d reference intakes by life stages. A well planned diet should fall between this range (in the middle part) Between recommended dietary allowance and tolerable upper intake level. Must be obtained in food or disease results; consumed. Cannot be synthesized by any cells/organs in the body. Help process for energy, but don"t actually provide energy. Less than 1 mg per day requirement. Needed in much smaller amounts (mg or g) Rate of metabolic consumption still likely occurs faster than rate of production.
