INTRO TO GI Flashcards
Science that deals with food and nourishment in humans
Nutrition
Optimal nutrition is essential for _________ and _________ and other complications
Healing and resisting infection
Nutrition is about eating a _________ and __________
Healthy and balanced diet
An integral part of our daily life or needs that supplies our body with nourishment to perform adl
Food
Are substance that provides nourishment needed for growth and maintenance of life
Nutrients
The most important nutrient needed by the body
Water
Water is about __% of pur body weight
60
Fats/lipids are about __% of our body weight
20
About __% are composed of protein,carbs,minerals and vitamins, of our body weight
20
Altered state of nutrition resulting from deficiency or excess of one or more nutrients
Malnutrition
Nutritional reserves are depleted or when nutrient intake is inadequate
Under nutrition
Over consumption of nutrient
Overnutrition
Risk factors for malnutrition under age are
Infant, Children, Adolescence, Aged adult
Give 6 other risk factors aside from age in malnutrition
Pregnancy or lactation
Poverty
Infection
Pain
Meds side effect
Psychological factors
Includes all bodily processes of changing chemical energy contained in foods to energy, heat or cellular chemical energy
Metabolism
