[NUTR 2050] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (42 pages long!)
7 Feb 2017
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Malnutrition: a pathological state resulting from a relative or absolute deficiency or excess of one or more essential nutrients, this satate being clinically manifested or detected only by biochemical, anthropometric or physiological tests: includes: Nutritional risk: risk factors are present that could lead to malnutrition. These risk factors could be determinants of food intake or nay indication hat food intake is poor i. e. number of servings of meat/alternatives consumed in a day vs. Nutrigenomics: the study of nutrient-gene interactions and the effects of these interactions on health. Also how the body uses nutrients and the ways in which these nutrients affect gene expression/coding to impact body functioning: examples: High-carbohydrate diets with sedentary lifestyles and obesity. Food security: exists when all people at times have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Standards are the same for canada and u. s.
