NTS 135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Dietitian, Body Fat Percentage, Saturated Fat

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Section 2. 5: measuring your nutritional state concepts: what are the abcde steps used in assessing nutritional status, what are the limitations of nutritional assessment, measuring your nutritional state. To find out nutritionally fit you are, a nutritional assessment needs to be conducted. Performed by a primary care provider, often with the aid of a registered dietitian nutritionist: table 2-9: conducting an evaluation of nutritional health. Anthropometric assessment: body weight, lengths, circumferences thicknesses of parts of the body. Biochemical assessment: biochemical functions related to a nutrient"s function, concentrations of nutrient by-products or enzyme activities in blood or urine. Clinical assessment: general appearance of skin, eyes, and tongue, sense of touch, ability to walk, evidence of rapid hair loss. Dietary assessment: estimation of typical food choices relying on the recounting of one"s usual intake or record of previous days" intake. Environmental assessment: living conditions, education level, and ability to purchase, transport, and cook food; weekly budge for food purchases: practical example abcdes.

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