Nutritional Diseases Flashcards
What is nutrition?
The process by which humans obtain and use substances from food (nutrients) to maintain structural and functional integrity
What is optimal nutrition?
Food secure individuals with an adequate balanced diet
Healthy, normal development and high quality of life
What is undernutrition (hunger)?
Food insecure Depletion of energy Poverty Ignorance Political unstable environment Increased physical and mental development Increased infections
What is malnutrition?
Serious depletion of nutrients (other than energy)
Similar to undernutrition but increased burden
What is starvation?
Involuntary lack of food
What is fasting?
Voluntary lack of food
What is famine?
Severe food shortage in the community
What are the issues in nutrition?
Nutrient-gene interactions Phytochemicals Childhood obesity Requirements of an ageing population Food security for everyone Food safety
What are the factors affecting energy intake?
Appetite
Hunger
What is vitamin D?
Hormone-cholesterol based
Formed following exposure to UV
What percentage of bone is replaced each year?
5-10%
What is the purpose of calcitrophic hormones?
Regulate bone formation and resorption
What are some examples of calcitrophic hormones?
Parathyroid hormone Vitamin D Sex steroids Glucocorticoids Growth hormone Insulin-like growth factor
What are the main bone diseases?
Osteoporosis
Rickets and osteomalacia
What is osteoporosis?
Systemic disease of the skeleton where there is low bone mass and an impairment of the microarcitecture of bone