NUTRITION IN PUBLIC HEALTH Flashcards
- The science of foods and the substance that they contain, their action, interaction and balance in relation to health and disease
- Includes the processes by which an organism ingests, digests, absorbs, transports, utilizes and excretes food substances
Nutrition
- Any substance the body can take in and assimilate
- Essential for life
- Derived from plant and animal sources
- Provide energy and nutrients
- Used by the body for maintenance, growth and repair
Food
Factors affecting Food Consumption
- Biological Needs
- Social and Cultural Factors
- Economic Factors
- Physical Factors
- Time Factors
- Psychological Factors
- mild starvation leads to weakness and irritability
- severe starvation leads to hallucination, illness and death
Food
dehydration can lead to decreased alertness up to death
Water
aesthetic appeal of food
Sensory
- certain foods have symbolic role
Religion
social connection, bonding and achievements
Cultural practices
- Higher incomes result to greater food choice and higher education
- Low incomes are associated with unbalanced diets in developing countries
Economic Factors
- Rural or urban location
- Access to transport increases consumer choices
- Accessability and availability of food
Physical Factors
- Lack of time leads to consumption of convenience foods
- Key to improve diet is improve quality of convenience foods
Time Factors
- Emotional eating
- External cues
- Esteem
Psychological Factors
prestige, feeling of accomplishment,
social acceptance
Esteem
Components of food required for body’s
functioning
NUTRIENTS
Roles of nutrients:
- Provide energy
- Building material
- Maintenance and repair
- Support growth
CATEGORIES OF NUTRIENTS
- Water
- Carbohydrates
- Fats
- Proteins
- Vitamins
- Minerals
- Condition of the body resulting from the ingestion and utilization of nutrients
- Foods consumed have a cumulative effect on your body
- Well chosen array of foods will prevent malnutrition
NUTRITIONAL STATUS
- Nutrient deficiencies (Undernutrition)
- Nutrient excesses (overnutrition)
- Nutrient imbalances
MALNUTRITION
- Theory and practice of nutrition as science through organized community effort
- Prevention, promotion , protection , conservation of health through proper nutrition
- Focuses on nutrition issues affecting the whole population rather than specific dietary needs of the individual
- Takes into account the impact of food production,
, distribution, and consumption on the nutritional status and health of particular population groups
PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION
MAJOR NUTRITION PROBLEMS
- Protein Energy Malnutrition
- Vitamin A Deficiency disorders
- Iron Deficiency Anemia
- Iodine Deficiency disorders
- Obesity
the country’s policy-making and coordinating body on
nutrition
National Nutrition Council
country’s guide for action for nutrition improvement
Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN)
GOALS OF PPAN
- Better nutrition
*Improved capacity to learn
*Improved health - Improved productivity
- Improved food security
- Improved quality of life
These are foods that make the body grow. These are foods
rich in protein, iodine, iron and vitamin B.
Body-building foods
These are foods that give us energy we need in doing
everyday task. Foods are rich in carbohydrates and fats (e.g.
potato, bread, butter, corn, cassava, coconut milk).
Energy-giving foods
These are foods that keep all or organs working and in good
condition, help in fighting common illnesses. These foods
are rich in vitamins and minerals (e.g. green leafy vegetables fruits).
Body-regulating foods
- Essential for growth and repair of body tissues since they constitute the major part of the body’s building blocks
- Vital in the regulation of body processes
- The source are fish, poultry, meat, eggs, dried beans
- When dietary protein is deficient, there is a failure of growth and development in infants and children or loss of body tissues in adult
- Protein energy malnutrition may lead to Kwashiorkor and maramus
PROTEIN
- Clinical constellation of edema and undernutrition (protein
and energy lack)
KWASHIORKOR
A physiological adaptation to marked restriction of dietary energy
MARASMUS
- Main source of energy for man
- There are three major types of dietary carbohydrates: starch, sugar and fiber
- It modulate the production of insulin and other hormones as well as synthesis of lipoproteins and cholesterol
- Dietary fiber provides bulk resulting in the modulation of peristalsis movement and the prevention of constipation
CARBOHYDRATES
- Essential nutrients, beneficial if consumes in the right amount and if is of the right type
- Concentrated source of energy
- Provides essential fatty acid
- Also helps absorb and store fat-soluble vitamins
FATS