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Ch 2 - Vocab Flashcards

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Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Ranges (AMDRs)

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Range of intakes for a particular energy source that are associated with reduced risk of chronic disease while providing adequate intakes of essential nutrients.

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ABCDs of nutrition

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Adequate Intake(AI)

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The nutrient intake that appears to sustain a defined nutritional state or some other indicator of health (e.g., growth rate or normal circulating nutrient values) in a specific population or subgroup. Al is used when there is scientific evidence to establish an EAR.

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Anthropomorphic measurements

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Biochemical Assement

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Canada’s Guidelines for Healthy Eating

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Key messages that are based on the 1990 Nutrition Recommendations for Canadian and provide positive, action-oriented, scientifically accurate eating advice to Canadians.

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Clinical Observations

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Daily Values (DVs)

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Diet history

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Dietary Guidelines for Americans

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The foundation of federal nutrition policy and were developed by the US department of agriculture and department of health and human services. These science- based guidelines are intended to reduce the number of Americans who develop chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and alcoholism from Elsevier.

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Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs)

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A framework of dietary standards that includes estimated average requirement, recommends dietary allowance, adequate intake, and tolerable upper intake level.

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Dietary stanadards

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Sets of values for recommended intake of nutrients.

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Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide

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Recommendations to help Canadians select foods to meet energy and nutrient needs while reducing the risk of chronic disease. The Food Guidel is based on the nutrition recommendations for Canadians and Canada’s guidelines for healthy eating and is key nutrition education tool
For Canadians aged 4 years and older.

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Enrich

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Estimated Average Requirement (EAR)

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The intake value that meets the estimated nutrient needs of 50 percent of individuals in a specific life-stage and gender group.

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Estimates Energy Requirement (EER)

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Dietary energy intake that is predicted to maintain energy balance in a healthy adult of a defined age, gender, weight, height, and level of physical activity consistent with good health.

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Exchange list

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Lists of food that in specified portions provide equivalent amounts of carbohydrate, fat, protein, and energy. Any food in an exchange list can be substituted for any other without markedly affecting Macronutrient intake.

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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The federal agency responsible for ensuring that foods sold in the United States (except for eggs, poultry, and meat, which are monsters

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Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ)

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Food groups

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Categories of similar foods, such as fruits or vegetables.

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Food Guide Pyramid

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A graphic representation of the US dietary guidelines; now replaced by MyPyramid.

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Food label

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Labels required by law on virtually all packaged foods and having five requirements: 1) statement of identity 2) the net contents 3) the name and address of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor; 4) a list of ingredients; and 5) nutrition information.

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Food and Nutrition Board

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A board within the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. It is responsible for assembling the group of nutrition scientist who review available scientific data to determine appropriate intake levels of the known essential nutrients.

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Food records

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Health claim

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MyPyramid

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An educational tool that translates the principles of the dietary Guidelines for Americans and other nutritional standards to help
Consumers in making healthier food and physical activity choices.

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Nutrient content claims

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Nutrient density

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A description of the healthfulness of foods. Food high in nutrient density are those that provide substantial amounts of vitamins and minerals and relatively few calories; foods low in nutrient density are those that supply calories but relatively small amounts of vitamins and minerals ( or more at all).

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Nutrition assessment

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Nutrition Facts

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Nutrition labeling and Education Act (NLEA)

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Nutrition Recommendations for Canadians

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A set of scientific statements that provide guidance to Canadians for a dietary pattern that will supply recommended amounts of all essential nutrients while reducing the risk of chronic disease.

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Overnutrition

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Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs)

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The nutrient intake levels that meet the nutrient needs of almost all (97 to 98 percent) individuals in a life-stage and gender group.

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Recommended Nutrient Intake (RNIs)

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Canadian dietary standards that have been replaced by dietary reference intakes.

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Requirement

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The lowest continuing intake level of a nutrient that prevents deficiency in an individual.

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Skinfold measurements

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Statement of Identity

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Structure/function claims

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Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (ULs)

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The maximum levels of daily nutrient intakes that are unlikely to pose health risks to almost all of the individuals in the group for whom they are designed.

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24 - hour dietary recall

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Undernutrition

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US department of agriculture (USDA)

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Then government agency that monitors the production of eggs, poultry, and meat for adherence to standards of quality and wholesomeness. The USDA also provides public nutrition education, performs nutrition research, and administers the WIC program.

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US department of health and human services (DHHS)

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The principal federal agency responsible for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. The agency is especially concerned with those Americans who are least able to help themselves.

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Weighted food records

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