Nutrition Flashcards
2 major category of data collctn in dietary assessment
Purchases
Consumption
Most accurate method in diet ass
Weighing method
What is inventory method
Common in popltn found in institutions wherein food comes from a common kitchen
2 ex of interview method
24h diet recall
Diet history
Used method to obtain CURRENT dietary info
24h diet recall
Used in epid to see general dietary pattern instead of current
Diet history
Purpose of biochemical studies? Such as obt serum and urine concentrations?
Establish malnutrition in its preclinical stage
Simple and practical method of ascertaining nutri status of individuals
Clinical exam
Reflect changes in morphological variation dt inapprop food intake
Anthropo assessment
Most widely reproducible anthropo measuremnt
Weight
Good indicator for chronicity of any debilitating illness
Height
How to make out dwarfism or short stature?
Use mclaren classification
Muac is measured how?
Bet olecranon and acromion
mUAc tool that uses 3 visual zones
Shakir tape
Shakir tape says 13cm
Mild to mod
Mild >13.5, severe, 12.5
Subq fat is measured
Skinfold thickness
Sites for Sft?
Triceps, biceps, subscapular, suprailiac
Diff rao index from BMI?
Rao index uses CM2 in denominator
Generally interpreted as an indicator for present nutri status
Wt for ht
Common classifications of nutri disorders in phils
Protein energy malnut
Micronutrient def
Community nutrition survey
Dietary assessment
Presence of edema due to poor nutri. Means sickness of the weaning.
Kwashiorkor
Means wihtering or wasting
Marasmus
Which pem has high plasma cortisol and low insulin
Marasmus