Discuss the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet.

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Fundamentals of Nutrition
NTR 300

Dr. Lorna Shepherd

Nutrition Overview

  • Objectives
  • Define nutrients
  • Identify the major nutrition components of a diet; their sources, function and metabolism
  • Carbohydrates, protein, lipids, vitamins, minerals, water
  • Describe the American diet
  • Identify appropriate nutrition goals

Diet:

  • What we eat consistently on a daily basis over a period of time.
  • Shaped by food habits we develop
  • Healthy or unhealthy

Characteristics of a Balanced Diet:

  • Nutrient Dense
  • Adequacy
  • Portion Control
  • Variety
  • Essential Nutrients

Nutrition

  • Nutrition
  • The science of foods and its components; their interactions, including digestion, absorption, assimilation and excretion

  • Food provides the nutrients needed for fuel, building and maintaining body cells

  • Essential nutrients
  • Substances essential for health that the body cannot make or cannot make in sufficient quantity to meet bodily needs.

Energy Yielding Nutrients

  • Carbohydrate
  • Protein
  • Lipids

Non-Energy Yielding Nutrients:

  • Vitamins

  • Minerals

  • Water

Non- Nutritive Components of plant foods:

  • Phytochemicals:
  • Include carotenes & lycopene
  • Confer protection against some cancers.
  • Some studies show improved immune function and decreases in inflammatory processes.