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1
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Overnutriton

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  • Energy supply > Energy demand

- Less common with micronutrients

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Undernutrition

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  • When intake is poor/demand is increased

- Seen in food intake

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Malnutrition

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  • Children wont meet growth/development milestone

- Adults observe unintentional weight loss and muscle wasting

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Genes

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Genes can control response to nutrition, nutrition can control expression of genes

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Do genes affect what we need to eat?

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Yes

- Biological responses; as we develop, our responses to things change

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Low Risk Lifestyle Activities

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  • Exercising
  • No drugs/smoking
  • Not drinking
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High Risk Lifestyle Activities

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Jobs where you breathe in harmful chemicals

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Anthropometric measures

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  • BMI, skin fold, growth chart data

- These things are only as good as the people who are measuring

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Dietary Recall

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  • Remembering what you eat

- Looking backwards (retrospective)

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Food Frequency

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  • How frequently do you eat specific foods

- Retrospective

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Food Record

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  • What you eat in current time
  • Writing down what you eat as you go
  • Prospective (current time)
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Subjective Methods

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  • Ex. dietary recall, food frequency, food record
  • Dependent on who is writing down and performing the task of eating
  • Not necessarily accurate
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Objective

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Things we can be pretty sure about (lab values, medical history)

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14
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What do biological markers lack?

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  • Specificity

- We think they mean one thing but they’re not specific

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15
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Why physical exam?

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  • Nutritional status

- Cant see malnutrition, but can see signs in hair skin nails etc.

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Dietary Standards

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  • Protect against nutrient deficiency/excess
  • Enable gov’t planning of food
  • Provide food labelling info
  • Provide guidance for people against preventable diseases
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17
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1 cause of death in US?

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Heart disease (most preventable)

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18
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Who determines dietary standards?

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USDA and Department of Health and Human Services

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Who deals with food labels?

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FDA

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Dietary Reference Values

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  • Standards set by the health departments of gov’t or by organizations
  • Define diets that maintain good health
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21
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National systems vary according to what?

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  • Health priorities/policies
  • Health, SES, body mass
  • Composition of foods
  • Lifestyle influences that determine bioavailability of nutrients(ex. US says we need exercise, Japan wouldn’t)
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Dietary Assessment

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  • What we use to get research from people
  • Measure of nutrient intake
  • All methods are prone to bias/error
  • Choice of methods depends on size/nature of population
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Advantages/Disadvantages of Dietary Recall

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Advantages:
- Inexpensive
- Can be repeated w same person
- Doesnt influence food intake
Disadvantages:
- One recall not representative
- Reliant on memory
- Prone to under/over reporting intakes
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Food Record Advantages/Disadvantages

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Advantages:
- Not reliable on memory
- Can be precise
- Can get info on meal patterns
Disadvantages:
- Act of recording may change behavior
- Time intensive (so dropout)
- Under/over recording intakes
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Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ)

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  • Provide food checklists to individuals
  • Estimates habitual intake of foods
  • Most generate dat on foods, not nutrients
  • Most common data collection when doing large nutrition research
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Advantages/Disadvantages of FFQ

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Advantages:
- Inexpensive
- Represents usual intake over long period
- Self administered
Disadvantages
- Doesnt capture portion sizes
- No micronutrient intakes
- Depends on memory
- Must be validated for population of interest
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27
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How did Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) come up?

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  • Needed scientific reference to make recommendation for people
  • Wanted to be sure we were telling people what they needed to eat at least enough of
  • Basis for nutrition standards
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28
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DRIs are for who?

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Populations AND data for individuals

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29
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Adequate Nutrition Intakes

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  • Different for each person

- Based on factors (age, gender, physical activity, genetics)

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30
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Nutrient Requirement

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Amount of a nutrient one must consume to promote optimal health

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31
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How are DRI’s grouped?

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By gender and life cycle

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32
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Estimated Average Requirement (EAR)

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  • Meets POPULATION needs
  • Meets 50% of needs
  • Creates RDA
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Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA)

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  • Purpose: prevent nutrient deficiencies, promote optimal health
  • Meets INDIVIDUAL needs
  • Meets 97% for healthy individuals
  • No EAR? no RDA
  • Built in safety margin
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34
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Upper Limit (UL)

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  • If we consume more, toxicity

- Not w all nutrients (insufficient research)

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Adequate Intake (AI)

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  • For infants (no RDAs, just AI)
  • Lack of research to support RDA
  • No AI if RDA/EAR
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36
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Estimated Energy Requirements (EERs)

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  • Mathematical equation

- Age, sex, weight, height, and physical activity

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Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Range (AMDRs)

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  • Distribution of energy sources
  • Carbs: 45-65%
  • Protein: 10-35%
  • Fats: 20-35%
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38
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MyPlate

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  • Joint effort of USDA and USDHHS
  • Build healthy plate
  • Cut back on certain foods
  • Eat right amount of calories
  • Be physically active your way
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39
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Ecological Study

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  • Looking at disease outcomes for specific location at specific time
  • Only population averages, not individual
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Cross-Sectional Study

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  • Looking at nutritional exposure/disease outcome
  • Single population at specific point in time
  • Descriptive study
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Case-Controlled Study

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  • Compares nutritional exposures in population with specific disease to a similar reference population without the disease
  • Helps see our information isn’t based off chance
42
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Cohort Study

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  • Observational
  • Follows a population over a long time (years)
  • Nutritional exposure is measured at beginning to be related to disease that develops over course of study
  • Follow up may occur over many years
43
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Randomized Controlled Trial

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  • Experimental study
  • Randomly select group to be administered foodstuffs, nutrients, etc and are compared to match control group of period to follow up
  • GOLD standard
  • See in people/animals
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Systematic Reviews/Meta-Analysis

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  • Use existing evidence to address research question
  • Synthesizes findings
  • Considers flaws and gaps in evidence
  • Combines results of smaller studies to make larger sample
  • Risk of being calculated wrong
45
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Pregnancy death rates now>

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5/6 in 1000

46
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How many pregnancies are planned?

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60%

47
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Main factors what appear that are unrelated to nutritional status?

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  • Menarche to Menopause
  • Health of reproductive tract
  • Function and regulation of hypothalamic-pituitary ovarian axis
48
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Female vs. Men Time Frame for Fertility

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  • Females are limited

- Men can maintain fertility throughout life

49
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What has the biggest impact on Menarche?

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Nutrition

50
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Three stages of menarche?

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Follicular phase -> Ovarian -> Luteal phase

51
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Disordered Reproductive Cycling

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Result of emotional stress, excessive exercise, disease of reproductive tract, meditation, obesity, extreme weight loss

52
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Consequences of Disordered Reproductive Cycling

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  • Amenorrhea
  • Oligorrhea
  • Anovulation
53
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Amenorrhea

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Loss of menstrual cycle

54
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Oligorrhea

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Abnormally long cycles (45-90 days)

55
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Anovulation

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Failure to ovulate

56
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Major cause of menstrual cycle disorders?

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Poor nutrition status

57
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LH

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Luteinizing hormone

58
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FSH

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Follicle Stimulating Hormone

59
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What do ovaries form?

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  • Clusters of immature follicles (fluid filled cysts)
60
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Problems with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)

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  • Fluid filled cysts which cause anovulation/oligorrhea
  • High androgen concentrations (head hair loss, increased hair growth on face/chest)
  • Family obesity history
61
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Most important approach to managing PCOS

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Weight loss through calorie restriction

62
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Main factor determining female fertility

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Body fat content

63
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What body fat is the requirement for menarche

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17% - minimum

64
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What body fat is required to sustain reproductive cycling

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22%

65
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Leptin

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  • Peptide hormone
  • Links body fattness of woman to hypothalamus pituitary ovarian axis
  • Governs fertility
  • From adipose tissue
66
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Lower leptin concentrations

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Anovulation

67
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Extremely low leptin concentrations

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Amennorhea

68
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Leptin / Obese women

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Obese -> more adipose tissue -> more leptin

69
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ROS

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Molecule with unpaired electrons that causes tissue damage

70
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Antioxidants

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Lend electrons to buffer damage of free radicals

71
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Oxidative Stress

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  • ROS activity isnt fully buffered by antioxidants

- Normal feature of reproductive function

72
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What happens when you dont have supply of antioxidants

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  • ROS isnt neutralized

- Become in state of imbalance

73
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Why is body rich in antioxidants?

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Controls oxidative stress

74
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Study on antioxidant supplements?

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Showed there is no significant benefit for womens reproductive health

75
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Caffeine

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  • Results are inconclusive

- Limit caffeine/alcohol use

76
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How is male fertility assessed?

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  • Sperm count
  • Sperm motility
  • Sperm morphology
77
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Dietary factors as determinants of fertility?

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  • Obesity reduces
  • Micronutrients
  • Alcohol impacts
  • Endocrine disruption by components of food chain
78
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Abnormal Spermatogenesis

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  • Underweight men have low circulation

- Obese men have low circulation and produce lower quantities of sex hormone binding proteins

79
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Alcohol

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  • Ethanol is spermatotoxic in animals (low LH/FSH, reduced testosterone)
  • No evidence about moderate alcohol consumption
80
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Alcoholics

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  • Low semen volume
  • Low sperm count
  • Reduced sperm motility
  • Fewer sperm with normal morphology
81
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Zinc

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  • Deficiency linked to infertility/spermatogenesis
  • Key cofactor for synthesis of DNA/RNA
  • Unclear about normal range
82
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What can oxidative damage do to sperm?

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  • Reduce fertility

- More damaged, immotile sperm

83
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Antioxidant Supplementation

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  • No clear evident benefit
  • Most trials use high dosage
  • Limited success in subfertile men
84
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Hormone Mimics

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Bind estrogen receptor and induce estrogenic responses

85
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Antihormones

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Oppose actions of endogenous androges

86
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Phthalates

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  • Used in production of flexible plastics and household cleaning products
  • Inhibits testosterone production
  • Measurements of phthalate metabolites is inversely proportional to sperm count
87
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Baby boys and Phthalates

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  • Exposure through formula milk with contamination of milk powder and baby bottle
  • Breast milk
88
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Phytoestrogens

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  • Plant derived compounts with estrogenic activity (lignans, soy derived isoflavones)
  • Have little impact on adult male fertility
89
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Lignans

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Sources of dietary fiber

- Flax seeds

90
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Controllable Factors of Pregnancy

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Environmental and lifestyle

91
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Uncontrollable Factors of Pregnancy

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Social and physiological

92
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Maternal Weight Management

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  • Weight gain during pregnancy is reflection of BMI

- Weight loss during pregnancy is not recommended

93
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When should women try to lose weight?

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Prior to conception

94
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Vitamin A

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-Should be restricted during pregnancy due to association w birth defects

95
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NTD and Fliac Acid

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  • Closure of neural tube at week 4 of gestation -> demand for folate is high
96
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Neural Tube

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Brain and Spinal Cord

97
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What happens if folic acid is limiting nucleotide?

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Neural Tube may not close

98
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Anencephaly

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  • Neural tube defect

- Cerebral arches of the brain will be absent (death)

99
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Spina Bifida

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Spinal cord isnt fully encased in bone making it vulnerable to injury/damage

100
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What % of Pregnancy is unplanned?

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40%

101
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Fortification

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In 1998, US food and drug administration imposed mandatory fortification with folate (pasta, bread)
- UK govt doesnt do this

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