FSHN 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Overnutrition, Ferritin, Hemoglobin
7 Dec 2016
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Diet affects our health status in many ways. Differences in genetic predisposition to disease can be influenced by diet, not eliminated. Nutritional adequacy: state of good health, vitality, and a sense of well being. **vitality= ability to work, have energy, be efficient. **well being= lack there of = food disorder. Doctor says you are healthy, yet you see something wrong with yourself. Everyone is genetically distinct, so we must think of nutritional adequacy in terms of a distributions rather than a single value. Too many calories and nutrients = bad. Overnutrition -- dietary excesses of nutrients and calories. Desirable status: sufficient amount of nutrients and calories. Undernutrition : nutrients and calorie stores depleted. State of body deficiency: reduced biochemical function and clinical symptoms. Undernutrition = serum ferritin drops below normal levels. A diet with: necessary levels of essential nutrients and adequate energy in the form of calories.
