Nutrition and Body Composition and Management Flashcards
What is the Nutrition Care Process?
The process of assessing, diagnosing, intervening, and then monitoring and evaluating the results of a client’s nutritional behavior and objectives oriented diet plan
What is Counseling?
The process of facilitating another person’s growth
What are Counseling Models?
Approaches to counseling, developed primarily by psychologists, designed to best achieve the objectives desired by the client in the context of overall health
What is a Registered Dietician (RD)?
A licensed professional in which the title holder will have completed a minimum four year degree in the field of nutrition science (or related), and passed a licensing board examination
What is the American Dietetic Association?
The professional body that sets the parameters for one’s professional status as a Registered Dietician, and that administers the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetic Education (CADE) National R.D. Examination
What is a Nutritionist (non RD)?
A person who provides nutrition advice and counseling on request. However, with no credentials or certifications needed to assume this title, the quality of guidance may vary from one who generally understands nutrition and is both prepared and qualified to provide sound nutritional advice, to one who knows nothing or very little about nutrition yet nevertheless seeks to solicit money from clients for base economic gain
What is a Nutrition Qualified Personal Trainer?
An individual who is uniquely placed to have a major positive impact on a client’s overall health profile, provided that this same individual has a reliable and competent understanding of topics pertinent to both these areas
What is the BMR or Basal Metabolic Rate?
The number of kcals (calories) that a person burns at rest over a 24 hour period
What are Activity Calories?
The number of kcal (calories) that a person burns above their BMR, as a result of activity, over a 24 hour period
What is the Thermic Effect of Food (TEF)?
The number of kcal the body consumes in order to digest food over a 24 hour period
What is the Estimated Energy Requirement?
The number of kcal that an individual must consume over a 24 hour period in order to maintain their present weight. It is a sum of the BMR, AC, and TEF
What is the Goal Adjusted EER?
The number of kcal to be added/subtracted from an individual’s EER, in order to achieve a weight loss or weight gain goal
What is the Exercise Adjusted Goal EER?
An accommodation to account for kcal burned during exercise and activity, generally resulting in ADDING those calories back in to the EER or Goal Adjusted EER
What is Nutrition?
The sum of the processes involved with the intake of nutrients as well as assimilating and using them to maintain body tissue and provide energy; a foundation for life and health
What is Nutrition Science?
The body of science, developed through controlled research, that relates to the processes involved in nutrition - internationally, clinically, and in the community
What are Dietetics?
The management of diet and the use of food; the science concerned with the nutrition planning and preparation of foods
What is Anabolism?
The process by which body tissue is built up or repaired
What is Catabolism?
The process by which body tissue is broken down for use as energy or to be disposed of as waste
What is Metabolism?
The sum of all chemical changes that take place in the body by which it maintains itself and produces energy for its functioning
What are Macronutrients?
Food that contains calories. Exclusively, these are carbs, protein, and fats
What are Micronutrients?
Food that does not contain calories, but which is nevertheless crucial to metabolism. Exclusively, these are vitamins and minerals
What is Fiber?
Dietary fiber, which is an indigestable carbohydrate, helps regulate the passage of food material through the gastrointestinal tract and influences the absorption of various nutrients
What is Optimal Nutrition?
Indicates a balanced diet of macronutrients, micronutrients, water, and fiber in ideal amounts
What is Malnutrition?
Indicates a poor and insufficient diet. Malnutrition can take the form of either Undernutrition or Overnutrition
What is Undernutrition?
Nutritional reserves are depleted and nutrient and energy intake is not sufficient to meet day to day needs or added metabolic stress, such as that in exercise and activity
What is Overnutrition?
Excess nutrient and/or energy intake over time, resulting either in an overweight or obese condition, or certain toxicities by way of excessive micronutrient intake “megadosing”
What does USDA stand for?
The United States Department of Agriculture
What does FDA stand for?
The Food and Drug Administration
What is the ADA?
The American DIetetic Association
What are Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs)?
Nutrient recommendations for each gender and age group that is to be used for assessing and planning diets for healthy populations
What are Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs)?
Recommended, per day allowances of nutrients and energy intake for populations groups according to age and sex, with defined weight and height
What is the BMI?
A widely used, if not always conclusive, means of determining whether a person is underweight, optimal, overweight, or obese. It is a ratio that involves an individual’s weight and height, which is then compared to national norms
What is Digestion?
The process in which food i broken down in the gastrointestinal tract, enabling the uptake of many nutrients into the body
What is Mechanical Digestion?
The mechanical process in which the peristaltic action of the stomach’s three layers of smooth muscle, combined with the corrosive effects of gastric acid, break down large particles of food into their constituent parts
What is Chemical Digestion?
The chemical process in which digestive system enzymes, released primarily from the pancreas into the small intestine, chemically act on mechanically digested carbohydrate, protein, and fat to complete their digestion and absorption into the body
What is Mastication?
The process of chewing food. Part of the Mechanical digestion
What is the Bolus?
A soft pliable mass, as formed by action between the teeth, tongue, and saliva, which is soft enough to swallow
What is Deglutition?
The act of swallowing food
What is Hydrochloric Acid (HCL)?
A primary component of the stomach’s gastric acid, HCL kills potentially harmful microorganisms in food and helps the stomach to mechanically breakdown and separate food types
What is Gastrin?
A hormone that stimulates/regulates the secretion of gastric acid, buffering the acidic nature of mechanical digestion
What is Mucus?
Lines the interior wall of the stomach to lubricate and protect tissues from the corrosive effects of gastric acid
What is pH?
Denotes the acidity of the solution. The body is considered balanced with a pH of 7.4. Anything less is acidic, anything more is “basic”
What is Peristalsis?
The wave like smooth muscle contractions of the digestive tract which allow for the migration and mechanical digestion of food
What is Chyme?
A semi liquid food mass which enters the intestinal tract following its formation in the stomach