Section 1 Nutrition In Changing World Flashcards
Nutrition
Process of providing a body with the food it needs 4 growth, metabolism, repair
what an why we eat is influenced by
- need and availability,
- cultural traditions
- daily routine
- sociability
- sensory pleasure
6 different nutrients we need
- protein
- carbohydrates
- fats
- vitamins
- minerals
- water
famine
widespread scarcity of food that leads to starvation and higher mortality
iron deficiency
- form of anemia
- most common children and pregnant women
vitamin a deficiency
- leading cause of preventable blindness in children
- increased risk of diseases and death from severe infection
- low lvl of retinol (main form of vit a in blood serum)
iodine deficiency
-impaired cognitive development in children
3 different measures to assess undernutrition in children
- underweight
lower than expected BODY WEIGHT for GIVEN AGE
-stunting
lower than expected HEIGHT for given AGE
-Wasting
lower than expected BODY WEIGHT for GIVEN HEIGHT
Stunting long term effect
- weight deficiency
- irreversable affect after age 2
- under developed immune system
- more vulnerable to ID
- cognitive development
- reduced life expectancy if f.e lungs dont develop fully
cross-sectional study
data collected at one point of a time
obestity risk of developing diseases such:
- cardiovascular diseases
- type 2 diabetes
- ceratain type of cancer
- osteoarthritis
body composition
how much body is lean mass and how much fat.
adipose tissue 2 categories
where fat is stored
- subcutaneous fat
- fat stored beneath the skin
- visceral fat
- internal fat packed around organs
adiposity
fatness, amount of fat in the body
proxy measure
- simple quantity that can be used to rep. sth that is too complex or difficult to measure directly
f. e BMI
