NFSC 303 Lecture 6: NFSC 303 Notes from 9:7:16
8 Sep 2016
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Estimated average requirement (ear) - amt. to meet needs of 50% of healthy people. Recommended dietary allowance (rda) - meet needs of 98% of healthy people. Adequate intake (ai) - assigned when no rda can be determined. Upper limit (ul) - highest average amount that is unlikely to be harmful. Estimated energy requirement (eer) - total calories needed. Not useful to most average people as a way to plan your diet. Purpose provide science-based advice for ages 2 and above includes those at increased risk of chronic disease. Dietary guidelines 2015 highlights and differences between 2010 and 2015 overarching concepts healthy eating patterns balancing calories focus on consuming nutrient-dense foods and beverages. Nutrient dense - a large amount of nutrients in a food or beverage regardless of the calories almost nary a nutrient calorie nutrients like fat. Empty calories - calories that do not have nary or. Calorie dense - when the nutrients of a food are high.
