FCFC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Iron-Deficiency Anemia, Overnutrition, Rickets
1 Feb 2017
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Identifying optimal nutrition: eating foods that provide the best possible nourishment for children, eating foods that protect against disease, eating the right combination of energy or calorie-providing nutrients to grow adequately. Challenges to nutrition: disappearing family members: Children eat more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and calcium rich foods when meals are prepared at home: using convenience foods: Prepackaged and frozen foods are high in fat, sugar and sodium, and may lose some nutritive properties during processing: eating away from home: Children consume larger portions, fewer fruits and vegetables, and more sodium and fat, in addition to soft drinks rather than milk: struggling with foods affordability: Falling incomes and higher food costs make it harder to provide adequate food. Healthy, hunger-free kids act of 2010 ** Lecture: #3: undernutrition: children do not get enough calories, protein, or other nutrients, over-nutrition: too many calories are consumed. Some young children do not consume sufficient calories to grow properly.
