NUTR 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hemoglobin, Skimmed Milk
3 Nov 2016
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Provides simple, actionable recommendations to help consumers make healthier food choices. Make at least half of your grains whole. Calorically dense/ energy dense foods = empty calories. Fruits: carbs, vitamins (c), minerals (potassium), fiber. Dairy, carbs, protein, vitamins (d), calcium/phosphorous minerals. Protein foods: protein, vitamins (b-6), iron/ zinc minerals. Nutritional state, nutritional health, how the body is doing: overnurished, greatly exceeds body"s needs, malnourished, failing health from long-standing dietary practices that do not meet nutritional needs, undernourished, not enough to meet body"s needs. Anthropometric assessment, body weight, lengths, circumferences, and thicknesses of parts of the body. Biochemical assessment, biochemical functions related to nutrient"s function: blood, urine, hemoglobin, enzymes testing. Clinical assessment, general appearance of skin, tongue, eyes, evidence of rapid hair growth, sensed of touch, etc. Dietary assessment, estimation of typical food choices. Environmental assessment, living conditions, education level, ability to purchase, transport, and cook food.
