Human Nutrition - goals
Purpose of assessing nutritional requirement
what is the right amt of diet for any particular group for them to grow proper and (in case of adults) be capable of proper maintenance
Terms defining the nutrition needs
RDA of a particular group (of any gender/ age group)
Adequate intake
Tolerable upper intake level
2, no adverse health risk to almost all the individual in general population
Estimated average requirement
2. estimated to fulfill needs of half the individuals of a particular gender and age
Deriving of RDA - (factors)
2. bioavailability
bioavailability depends on
bioavailability - is
level of nutrient in the diet that’ll help meet the requirement
low bioavailability
of iron
iron - amt in diet
20-30 more than what is required daily
foods in which bioavailability factor plays an important role
Validity of RDA of a nutrient
only if all the other dietary nutrients intakes are satisfactory
individual variability of requirements
RDA takes into account
- variability of requirement among individuals of the population
distribution of nutritional requirement of the population (nutritional requirement of infants, nutritional requriement of pregnant women etc) is normal if -
RDA (covering 97% of population) corresponds to the said requirement
i.e if RDA covers requirements of all the age groups and genders.
if say one age group requires A lot larger or lesser amt of nutrients than RDA, then the population requirement is’t normal but rather an anomaly.
nutritional requirement of individual depends on
body weight and height of children reflects
body weight and height of adult reflects
Reference value of anthropometric measurement
infants and children of well to do families having good health care and no nutritional constraints
purpose of RDA
attaining reference antrhopometric standards
multicentre growth reference standard for 0-60 month boys and girls
given by WHO
WHO reference standards - formation
reference values for Indian children
median weights of infants and preschool children