Chapter 4 nutrition guidelines - tyler banks

food Diary

A detailed daily record of the food and drink one consumes over a certain period of time, typically kept as a means of tracking calorie consumption or identifying habitual eating patterns. 'she went to three exercise classes a week, kept a food diary, and ate little and often'

AI - Adequate Intake

Adequate Intake (AI): The recommended average daily intake level based on observed or experimentally determined approximations or estimates of nutrient intake by a group (or groups) of apparently healthy people that are assumed to be adequate-used when an RDA cannot be determined. See list of nutrients.

Dietary Guidelines For Americans

Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee appointed. THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) released the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans with updated advice for what Americans should eat.

DRI- Dietary Reference Intakes

Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are a set of values used to plan a healthy diet. Learn about the DRI values: Estimated Average Requirements (EARs), Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs), Adequate Intakes (AIs) and Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (ULs). Nutrition 101: Science of Nutrition / Science Courses.

MyPlate

MyPlate is the current nutrition guide published by the United States Department of Agriculture, a food circle (i.e. a pie chart) depicting a place setting with a plate and glass divided into five food groups. It replaced the USDA's MyPyramid guide on June 2, 2011, ending 19 years of USDA food pyramid diagrams.

Nutrients Density

Nutrient density is the exact principle we used when we rated all of 127 foods found on the World's Healthiest Foods website. The World's Healthiest Foods give you the biggest bang for your buck. They give you the most nutrients possible for the least amount of calories.

Exchange list for meal planning

Often, the meal plan is a guide which shows the number of food choices to eat at each meal and snack using the diabetic exchange lists. The exchange lists group foods together because they are alike. Foods on each list have about the same amount of carbohydrate, protein, fat and calories.

Daily Values

Percent Daily Value (DV) on the Nutrition Facts label is a guide to the nutrients in one serving of food. For example, if the label lists 15 percent for calcium, it means that one serving provides 15 percent of the calcium you need each day. ... 5 percent or less of a nutrient is low.

portion size

Serving sizes are defined by the USDA Food Guide Pyramid as a standard amount used to help give advice about how much food to eat. It also helps us identify how many calories and nutrients are in a food. A portion is the amount of food that you choose to eat.

UL- Tolerable Upper Intake level

TOLERABLE UPPER INTAKE LEVEL (UL) The highest level of nutrient intake that is likely to pose no risk of adverse health effects for almost all individuals in the general population. As intake increases above the UL, the risk of adverse effects increases.

EAR- Estimated Average Requirement

The Estimated Average Requirement (EAR) is the intake level for a nutrient at which the needs of 50 percent of the population will be met. Because the needs of the other half of the population will not be met by this amount, the EAR is increased by about 20 percent to arrive at the RDA.

SoFas - solid fats , added sugars

high calories but low nutrients

RDA - Recommended Dietary Allowance

recommended dietary allowance. noun, Nutrition. 1. the amount of an essential nutrient, as a vitamin or mineral, that has been established by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences as adequate to meet the average daily nutritional needs of most healthy persons according to age group and sex.