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Nutritional Diseases Flashcards

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What is nutrition?

A

The process by which humans obtain and use substances from food (nutrients) to maintain structural and functional integrity

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What is optimal nutrition?

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Food secure individuals with an adequate balanced diet

Healthy, normal development and high quality of life

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What is undernutrition (hunger)?

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Food insecure
Depletion of energy
Poverty
Ignorance
Political unstable environment
Increased physical and mental development
Increased infections
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What is malnutrition?

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Serious depletion of nutrients (other than energy)

Similar to undernutrition but increased burden

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What is starvation?

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Involuntary lack of food

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What is fasting?

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Voluntary lack of food

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What is famine?

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Severe food shortage in the community

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What are the issues in nutrition?

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Nutrient-gene interactions
Phytochemicals
Childhood obesity
Requirements of an ageing population
Food security for everyone
Food safety
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What are the factors affecting energy intake?

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Appetite

Hunger

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What is vitamin D?

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Hormone-cholesterol based

Formed following exposure to UV

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What percentage of bone is replaced each year?

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5-10%

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What is the purpose of calcitrophic hormones?

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Regulate bone formation and resorption

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What are some examples of calcitrophic hormones?

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Parathyroid hormone
Vitamin D
Sex steroids
Glucocorticoids
Growth hormone
Insulin-like growth factor
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What are the main bone diseases?

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Osteoporosis

Rickets and osteomalacia

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What is osteoporosis?

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Systemic disease of the skeleton where there is low bone mass and an impairment of the microarcitecture of bone

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16
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For which cancers is there evidence of a link with vitamin D deficiency?

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Colo-rectal

Breast

17
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What are the mechanisms of vitamin D deficiency being linked to cancer?

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Influences DNA of cancer cells
Promotes cellular arrest
Curbs multiplication of cancer cells
Inhibits cancer from spreading

18
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Which components of heart disease is there links with vitamin D deficiency?

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Hypertension
Inflammation
Blood lipids

19
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What are the mechanisms of vitamin D deficiency being linked to heart disease?

A

Activates mechanism that boosts blood pressure

Stimulates parathyroid hormone which increases inflammation and insulin resistance

20
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What is good vitamin D status linked with?

A

Lower risk of multiple sclerosis
Fewer symptoms in MS patients
Fewer symptoms in patients with rheumatoid athritis

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