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This refers to the science of food.

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Nutrition

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This is the condition of the body that results from the ingestion and utilization of nutrients.

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Nutritional Status

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These consists of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats.

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Macronutrients

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These consists of vitamins and minerals.

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Micronutrients

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These are foods that make your body grow.

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Body-building Foods

Protein, Iodine, Iron, and Vitamin B.

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These are foods that give you energy. Foods rich in carbs and fats.

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Energy-giving Foods

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These are foods that keep organs working and in good condition e.g. vitamins and minerals.

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Body-regulating Foods

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This macromolecule is vital in the body processes and deficiency would lead to failure of growth and development among infants.

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Protein

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Protein malnutrition will lead to these two types of diseases.

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Kwashiorkor and Marasmus

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This is the category wherein energy malnutrition falls under.

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Severe Acute Malnutrition

Can be classified by lack of protein or lack of calories.

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These are the characteristics of Marasmum.

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  • Caloric depravation
  • Muscle wasting
  • Generalized muscle wasting
  • No edema
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These are the characteristics of Kwashiorkor.

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  • Protein depravation (some caloric)
  • Swollen abdomen
  • Skin hyperpigmentation or dispigmentation
  • MEALS
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This is what the MEALS in Kwashiorkor stands for.

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  • Malnutrition
  • Edema
  • Anemia
  • Fatty Liver
  • Skin Lesions
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These are some ways to address malnutrition.

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  1. Nutrition Education and Awareness
  2. Commission Based Nutrition Intervention
  3. Collaboration
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These are the ways to measure the nutritional education and awareness of a population.

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  1. Anthropometric
  2. Biochemical
  3. Chemical
  4. Dietary
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These are the different kinds of malnutrition.

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  1. Thinness (Acute)
  2. Shortness (Chronic)
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These are macromolecules that modulate the production of insulin, provide energy, and is used in the synthesis of lipoproteins, cholesterol, and hormones.

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Carbohydrates

Starch, Fiber, and Sugar

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These help in the modulation of peristalsis movement and prevent constipation.

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Dietary Fiber

Has lignin, nondigestible, and nonstarchy.

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This kind of fiber dissolved in water to form a gel and serves to slow the rate of passage of food from the small intestines.

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Soluble Fiber

Grain and fruits.

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This kind of fiber has lowering effects because it increases fecal excretion of bile acids, produced short-chain fatty acids, and promotes GI mobility and motility.

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Insoluble Fiber

Whole grain and leafy vegetables.

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These are the daily value of dietary fiber for men and women.

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  • 25g/day for Women
  • 38g/day for Men
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This is a macromolecule that provides essential nutrients and is beneficial in the right amout and type. It is also a concentrated source of energy that can absord, transport, and dissolve vitamins.

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Fats

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23
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These are the fat soluble vitamins.

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  • A
  • D
  • E
  • K
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This vitamin maintains vision, bone, tooth, hormones, immunity, and prevents xeropthalmia.

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Vitamin A

Retinol or retinoic acid.

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This is the location where vitamin As are stored due to its specific property.

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Stellate Cells of ITO

Stored for 6 months.

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This vitamin aids in the mineralization of bones to prevent rickets and osteomalacia (for adults).

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Vitamin D

Calciferol

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This vitamin is an anti-oxidant that protects the neuromuscular system and prevent arterosclerosis.

This is the most powerful natrually occuring anti-oxidant.

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Vitamin E

Tocopherol

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This is the occular manifestation of Vitamin A deficiency.

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Xeropthalmia

Earliest sign of deficiency is loss of sensitivity to green light and Nyctalopia (night blindness).

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This is the normal amount of Vitamin D circulating in the body.

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20-100ug/ml

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This is the most potent form of Vitamin E.

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Alpha Tocopherols

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This is the disease wherein it is caued by a deficiency of Vitamin E.

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Hemolytic Anemia

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This vitamin is related to coagulation.

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Vitamin K

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These are the problems associatied with the deficiency and toxicity of Vitamin K.

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  • Deficiency = clotting problems
  • Toxicity = hemolysis
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34
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This vitamin supports normal appetite and nervous tissue function. Prevents beri-beri (dry or wet).

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Vitamin B1

Thiamine

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This is the potential disease that is caused by Vitamin B1 deficiency characterized by:
- Acute, life-threatening, reversible disorder

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Wernicke Encephalophathy

Symptoms of confusion, opthalmoparesis, and ataxia.

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This vitamin supports skin health, prevents deficiencies like cracks or redness at the mouth, inflammation of the mouth and dermititis.

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Vitamin B2

Riboflavin

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This is a disease associated with the Vitamin B2 deficiency.

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Cheilosis and Corneal Vascularization

Can also experience Magenta of the Tongue.

38
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This vitamin supports skin health, nervous system and digestive system, and prevents pallegra.

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Vitamin B3

Niacine

39
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This is a disease due to Vitamine B3 (nicotinic acid) deficiency.

40
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These are the 3 D’s of Vitamin B3 deficiency.

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  1. Diarrhea
  2. Dementia
  3. Dermatitis (casal necklace)

Toxicity induces Podagara (foot gout) and liver problems.

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This vitamin helps convert tryptophan to niacin.

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Vitamin B6

Pyridoxine

42
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These are diseases associated with Vitamin B6 deficiency.

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  • Microcytic hypocromic anemia
  • Sideroblastic anemia
43
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This is a problem induced by a lack of tryptophan.

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Pellagra-like symptoms (3 D’s)

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This vitamin helps in the formation of new cells, maintain nerve cells, assist in metabolism of fatty and amino acids.

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Vitamin B12

Cyanocobalamin

45
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This is a disease associated with Vitamin B12 deficiency.

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  • Macrocytic Anemia
  • Megaloblastic Anemia
46
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This vitamin has an anti-scorbutic factor, helps in the formation of protein, collagen, bone, teeth, skin, and involved in amino acid metabolism.

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Vitamin C

Ascorbic acid

47
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This is the enzyme that humans and primates lack so they cannot produce their own vitamin C.

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Gulonolacrone Oxidase

48
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This disease is characterized by corkscew hair and bleeding gums due to Vitamin C deficiency.

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Scurvy

Vitamin C toxicity is suscpetible to Fe toxicity.

49
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This vitamin helps in the formation of DNA and new blood cells including RBC and prevents anemia (megaloblastic).

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Folic Acid

B9

50
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These are the absorption and location of the two similar B Vitamins B12 and B9.

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  • Folic Acid (B9) absorbs in the jejunum and stores in the liver for 3-4 months
  • Cyanocobalamin (B12) absorbs in the ileum and stores in the liver for 3-4 years
51
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This vitamin helps in energy and amino acid metabolism and in the synthesis of fat and glycogen.

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Vitamin B7

Biotin

52
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This vitamin helps in energy metabolism.

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Vitamin B5

Pantothenic acid

53
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This is the disease associated with Vitamin B5 deficiency that affects the limbs.

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Gopalan’s burning feet syndrome.

54
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These/this are the disease/s associated with Vitamin A deficiency.

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  • Xeropthalmia
  • Squamous metaplasia
55
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These/this are the disease/s associated with Vitamin D deficiency.

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  • Rickets
  • Ostemalacia
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These/this are the disease/s associated with Vitamin E deficiency.

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  • Hemolytic anemia
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These/this are the disease/s associated with Vitamin K deficiency.

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  • Bleeding problems
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These/this are the disease/s associated with Vitamin B1 deficiency.

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  • Beri-beri
  • Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
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These/this are the disease/s associated with Vitamin B2 deficiency.

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  • Cheilosis
  • Corneal Vascularization
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These/this are the disease/s associated with Vitamin B3 deficiency.

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These/this are the disease/s associated with Vitamin B5 deficiency.

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  • Gopalan’s burning feet syndrome
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These/this are the disease/s associated with Vitamin B5 deficiency.

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  • Sideroblastic Anemia
  • Microcytic Hypocromic Anemia
  • Pellagra
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These/this are the disease/s associated with Vitamin B7 deficiency.

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  • Dermatitis
  • Enteritis
  • Alopesia
64
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These/this are the disease/s associated with Vitamin B9 and B12 deficiency.

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  • Macrocytic Megaloblastic Anemia
65
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These/this are the disease/s associated with Vitamin C deficiency.

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  • Scurvy
  • Low Immunity
66
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This is the daily amount of major minerals we take.

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More than 100 mg a day.

Ca, Mg, P, Na, K, S, and Cl.

67
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This is the daily amount of minor minerals (trace elements) we take.

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Less than 100mg a day.

F, Fe, Mn, and Zn.

68
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This is the daily amount of ultra trace elements we take.

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Less than 1 mg per day.

I, Mo, and Se.

69
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This mineral is used in bones, muscles, nerves, and involved in blood clotting and pressure.

70
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This mineral is used in energy transfer and maintenance of acid-base balance.

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Phosphorus

71
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This mineral is used in bones and teeth, building protein, myscle contraction, and nerve impulses.

72
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This mineral is used to maintain fluid and electrolyte balance as well as nerve impulse transmission.

73
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This mineral is used to maintain fluid and electrolyte balance only and it is a part of Sodium.

74
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This mineral is used for the transmission of nerve impulses and contraction of muscles.

75
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This trace mineral regulates physical and mental development and metabolic rate.

76
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This trace mineral is essential in the formation of blood and prevents anemia.

77
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This trace mineral is essential for normal growth and development of immunity.

78
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This trace mineral is necessary for the absorption and use of iron in the formation of hemoglobin.

79
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This trace mineral is involved in the formation of bones and teeth.

80
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This trace mineral is associated with facilitating cell processes.

81
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This trace mineral is associated in working with insulin and is required for the release of energy from glucose.

82
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These are the desirable contribution towards energy intake per macromolecule.

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  • 55-70% Carbs
  • 20-30% Fats
  • 10-15% Protein

Recommended Daily Allowance

83
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This refers to the patient’s weight in kg divided b the square of the height in meters.

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Body Mass Index (BMI)

84
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This is the normal range for the Asian BMI Classification.

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18.5 to 22.9

85
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This characteristic of your abdomen is associated with cardiovascular dieases.

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Abdominal Obesity

Via waist circumference (preferred) and waist/hip ratio.

86
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This is the ideal waist circumference for males and females.

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  • 102 cm for males (white)
  • 88 cm for females (white)
  • 90 cm for males (asian)
  • 80 cm for females (asian)
  • 0.90 ratio for males
  • 0.85 ratio for females
87
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This refers to the average dietary energy intake predicted to maintain an energy balance.

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Estimated Energy Requirement (EER)

88
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This refers to the way of how to achieve an energy balance.

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Calories In = Calroies Out

89
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The amount of kcal in each macromolecule.

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  • Protein 4 kcal
  • Carbs 4 kcal
  • Fats 9 kcal
  • Alcohol 7 kcal

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