BPK 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Overnutrition, Genomics, Nutritional Genomics

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Nutrients: substances in food that humans need to live and grow. They provide energy and structure to the body and regulate body processes. To stay healthy, humans need more than 40 essential nutrients: nutrients that the body cannot make itself in which humans must consume to maintain health. Calorie: a unit of measure used to express the amount of energy provided by food. Nutrient density: a measure of the nutrients provided by a food relative to its calorie content. Higher nutrient dense foods have more nutrients per kilocalorie than foods with lower nutrient density. Fortified foods: foods which one or more nutrients have been added. It has helped eliminate nutrient deficiencies in canada. Dietary supplements: another source of nutrients with numerous can adults taking some sort of daily diet supplement such as multivitamins. They provide nutrients but don"t offer the (cid:271)e(cid:374)efits of food= false sense of security for health. Depends on what and how we have learned to eat.

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