2- Human Nutritional Needs (ch.6) Flashcards

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How is diet inextricably linked to other parts of our lives?

A
  • hunter- gatherers, human diet, and our capacity for cooperation

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2
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subsistance patterns for contemporary foragers

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dependent on the enviorment they are located.

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3
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What diets are humans “designed” to eat?

A

European Upper Paleolithic

50,000 - 10,000 BCE

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4
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Undernutrition

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  • Protein- energy malnutrition
  • Marasmus
  • Kwashiorkor
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Marasmus

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  • prominent bones
  • decrease in sub-cutaneous fat
  • loose skin
  • Wasting = present/ marked
  • Mental changes- uncommon
  • good appetite
  • Anemia= present- less severe
    face= drawn in/ monkey like
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Kwashiorkor

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  • protuberant belly
  • itchy rash
  • poor wound healing
  • Xerosis
  • wasting = present
  • mental changes = very common
  • Appetite= poor
  • Anemia = Severe (sometimes)

face= may be edematous

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7
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Nutrient Deficiencies

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Iodine
- goiter
(bulge on thyroid area)
- congenital hypothyroidism
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Vitamin A
- Blindness

Vitamin C

  • Scurvy
  • (pale skin, sunken eyes, loss of teeth)

Vitamins D
- Rickets
- Osteomalacia
(bowlegged, fragile bone density)

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8
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Malnutrition

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overabundance of calories

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9
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Overnutrition

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overabundance of individual nutrients

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