Chapter 1- Nutrition: Food for Health Flashcards

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The study of nutrients, their composition, how the body uses them (metabolism), and how these nutrients support optimal health.

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Nutrition Science

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Substances found in foods that are required for the maintenance of health and proper body function.

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Nutrients

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Building physical components of cells, bones, etc.

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Structural Function of Nutrients

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Maintaining the proper balance of hormones, temperature, chemical reactions, etc.

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Regulatory Function of Nutrients

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Providing fuel for cells to perform work.

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Energy Function of Nutrients

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Nutrients our body cannot make in adequate amounts, so we must get them from food. Essential in a diet, not essential to our health. All nutrients, essential or non-essential, are necessary for our health.

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Essential Nutrients

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A type of non-nutrient; chemicals made by plants; seem to have health-promoting properties.

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Phytochemical

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The animal equivalent of phytochemicals in plants.

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Zoochemical

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Does not contain carbon in their structure (water, minerals)

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Inorganic (Chemically)

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Contains carbon in their structure (carbs, fats, protein, vitamins)

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Organic (Chemically)

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What calories measure.

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Energy

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In body in larger amounts (ex. carbs, proteins, fats, water)

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Macronutrient

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In body in small amounts (ex. vitamins, minerals)

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Micronutrient

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A food that high in this may be (as a ratio) high in nutrients but low in calories. The density of a given nutrient per kcal in a food.

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Nutrient Density

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The study of the interaction between
genetic susceptibility and a specific lifestyle factor (diet, for example).

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Nutrigenomics

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Measurement (unit) of energy.

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Kcalories

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Conditions lasting 1 year or more and require ongoing medical attention and/or limit activities or daily living.

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Chronic Disease

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The amount of energy (kcals) in a particular weight of food.

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Energy Density

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Either undernutrition or overnutrition

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Malnutrition

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A research question that is measurable and specific.

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Hypothesis

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A study in which we do not intervene. It is conducted by gathering information about the subject through surveys, blood work, visual observation, medical chart review, etc.

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Observational Study

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An observational study that matches people with a disease to people without a disease and attempt to uncover differences between the two groups.

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Case-Control Study (a type of observational study)

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Intervention Study

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The group being tested or changed.

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Experimental Group

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The “standard” group; is not being tested; may receive a placebo.

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Control Group

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The splitting of a population into different groups in an unpredictable, unsystematic, or random order; helps with validity; creates an “average”.

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Randomization

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A substance that has no therapeutic effect, used as a control.

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Placebo

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A condition or behavior associated with an elevated frequency of a disease.

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Risk Factor

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A well-designed intervention study in medicine/healthcare; the “golden standard”; A study design that randomly assigns participants into an experimental group or a control group.

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Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT)

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A personal account of an experience or an observation.

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Anecdotal Evidence

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Peer review requires that their articles be
reviewed by a panel of experts prior to agreeing to publish them and the authors need
to revise or redo their study if the reviewers have major objections.

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Peer Review

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A relationship between two variables where they move in the same direction; as x increases, y increases.

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Positive Correlation

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A relationship between two variables where they move in different directions; as x increases, y decreases.

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Negative (Inverse) Correlation

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Information which may influence the participants of the experiment is withheld until after the experiment is complete.

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Blind Experiment

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A type of clinical trial in which neither the participants nor the researcher knows which treatment or intervention participants are receiving until the clinical trial is over.

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Double-Blind Experiment