2 - Nutritional Principles: Canada food guide Flashcards
What is the role of food guide?
- To assist in helping people maintain a healthy diet
- for dietary analysis
- For nutritional goals
- For food consumption surveys
- For food supply & production
What are the food-based dietary guidelines?
- Public food & nutrition
- For advice
- For promotion of health & prevention of diseases
- > 100 countries have good based dietary guidelines
What are some significant changes from the 2007 version of the food guideline?
- No portion sizes
- No serving recommendations
- No gender differences
- In essence it is completely different from how we have been using the food guide to date
What are some healthy food choices an individual can make?
- Vegetables + fruits
- Whole grains
- Protein foods
What are some of the healthy eating recommendations?
- Monitoring our eating habits
- Cooking more often
- Enjoying food
- Eating with others
What is the 1st guideline for healthy eating?
- Vegetables, fruits, whole grains + proteins foods are to be eaten regularly
- Protein consumption should be plant-based more often
- Unsaturated fat foods should replace foods that contain mostly saturated fat
- Water is to be the beverage of choice.
What is the 2nd guideline to eating healthy?
Avoid consuming regularly food which undermine healthy eating:
- Processed or prepared foods km
- Beverages which have:
1.) excess sodium
2.) saturated fat
3.) Free sugars
What is the 3 guideline to support healthy eating?
- To acquire food skills
- To assist in navigation of the complex food environment
- Promotion of cooking with nutritious food as a practical way to support healthy eating
- promotion of food labels as a tool to help people make informed food choices.
Where can we see vitamin C deficiencies more often?
- In older patients
- Smokers
- Drug abusers
What would be an inadequate amount of Vitamin C? & what would it cause on an individual?
Gingiva inflamed & BOP
What can chewable Vitamin C cause in individuals?
- Enamel erosion
- Dentin Hypersensitivity
What is the definition of Nutritional deficiencies?
when you are not receiving enough of the nutrients needed for growth & development (lack of vitamins + minerals)
What can nutritional deficiencies cause on an individual?
They modify the host immune response & how it reacts to periodontal diseases & conditions.
When does pH begin to decrease after consumption of foods?
2-3 mins after
What pH does decalcification begin to occur?
pH 5.5
