NUTR 3210 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dietary Fiber, Taken Out, Rickets

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Nutrition: the understanding of how to prevent nutrient defficiences and the effect of over nutrition. Essential nutrients are those which you cannot obtain from the diet or cannot synthesis fast enough to meet the standard needs. Anemia: defficiency in iron and vitamin b. Rickets: defficiency in vitamin b, not very common because we get most of it from the sun. Beriberi: defficiency in thiamine and vitamin b, disfunctional nervous system. Scury: deficiency in vitamin c, important for iron apsoption. Estimating nutrition requirements there is a range of nutrients that people can intake and still meet requirements, some more than others. Estimated average requirement (ear): the amount that satisfies 50% of people. Recomended dailey intake (rdi): the amount that is supposed to satisfy more than 96% of people. Not good for analysing digestibility, fermentation, specific minerals/lipids/carbs. Kept in for humans because there is nutritional benefit and taken out for animals. Weight loss after drying/weight of entire sample.

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