[NUTR 1010] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 69 pages long Study Guide!

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Nutrition
• Course: NUTR 1010
• Professor: Lise Smedmor

Document Summary

Nutrition: a science that studies the interaction that occur between living organisms and food. Nutrients: chemical substances in foods that provide energy and structure and help regulate body processes. How healthy is the canadian diet: canadian community health survey (cchs): found that many. Canadians consuming below recommended levels relatively low: between 17%-28% of adults (aged 19-70) consume higher than recommended levels of fat. Essential nutrients: nutrients that must be provided in the diet because the body either cannot make them or cannot make them in sufficient quantities to satisfy its needs. Fortified foods: foods to which one or more nutrients have been added, typically to replace nutrient losses during processing or to prevent known inadequacies in the canadian diet. Natural health products: are a category of products regulated by health. Canada that include vitamin and mineral supplements, amino acids, fatty acids, probiotics, herbal remedies, and homeopathic and other traditional medicines: they occupy a middle ground b/w food and drugs.