NUTR 222 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Trans Fat, Saturated Fat, Coronary Artery Disease
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Functional foods: foods that provide benefit beyond their nutrient contribution. Fortified foods: nutrients added to the food to be higher than they would be. Modified food: altered in a way to give benefits. Nutrients: substances obtained from food and used in the body to provide energy and structural materials and to serve as regulating agents to promote growth, maintenance and repair. Essential: must be obtained from food (body can make some, but not enough) Non-essential: don"t have to consume in diet (body makes enough) Excess of any nutrient is stored as fat; body"s preferred way of storing food. Metabolism: how we create/move energy around the body. Dri: a set of standards that supports health by defining amounts of energy, nutrients, physical activity and other dietary components. Rda: average daily amount of nutrients considered adequate to meet the needs of approximately 95% of healthy people. Ai: used when there isn"t enough scientific evidence to set rda.
