nutrition week 3
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- Health claims
- Claims linking for constituents with disease states, allowable on labels with the criteria established by the food and drug administration
- Nutrient claim
- Claims using approved wording to describe the nutrient values of food, such as the claim that a food is "high" in a desirable constituent or "low" in an undesirable one
- Structure-fiction claim
- A legal but largely unregulated claim permitted on labels of dietary supplements and conventional foods
- Dietary supplements
- A product, other than tobacco, that is added to the diet and contains on of the following ingredients: a vitamin, mineral, herb, amino acid... etc.
- Phytochemicals
- Non-nutrient compounds in plant-derived foods that have biological activity in the body
- Balance study
- A labroratory study in which a person is fed a controlled diet and the intake and excretion are measured. Balance studies are valid only for nutrients like calcium that do not change while they are in the body
- DRI
- A set of four lists of nutrient intake values for healthy people in the United States and Canada; they are used for planning and assessing diets
- DV
- Nutrient standards used on food labels, in grocery stores and on some resaurant menus
- RDA
- Nutrient intake goals for the individual, the average daily intake lever that meets the needs of 98% of healthy people in a particular age or gender group
- AI
- Nutrient intake goals for the individual, the recommended average daily nutrient intake lever based on intake of healthy people that is assumed to be adequate
- EAR
- The dialy nutrient intake estimated to meet the requirement of half of the healthy individuals in a particular life stage or gender group; used in nutrition research and policy making and is the basis upon which RDA values are set
- UL
- The highest average daily nutrient that is likely to pose no risk of toxicity to almost all healthy individuals in a particular life stage or gender group, usual intake above this level may place an individual at a risk of illness from toxicity
- Trans fat free
- Less than 0.5g of saturated fat per serving
- high fiber
- 5g or more per serving (and must fit the definition of low fat)
- Reasons for the obesity epidemic
- larger calorie intake and larger meal portions
- Eating fatty fish
- You get more omega-3 fats, reduces the risk of heart disease- unproven though
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Small head, large forehead, and strange eyes
- Binge drinking
- 4-5 drinks in a short time- academic problems, social problems, cirrhosis, inflammation of the pancreas, damage to heart and brain, motor vehicle accidents
- Causes of fatty liver
- An early stage of liver deterioration seen in several diseases including alcoholic liver disease, in which fat accumulates in the liver cells
- Fibrosis
- Intermediate stage of alcoholic liver deterioration, liver cells lose their function and assume the characteristics of connective tissue cells
- Cirrhosis
- Advanced liver disease, often associated with alcoholism, in which liver cells have died, hardened, turned an orange color, and permanently lost their color