Kinesiology 3339A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dietary Reference Intake, Nutraceutical, Functional Food
19 Oct 2016
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Recommended nutrient intake (canada) - amount of nutrient necessary to meet needs of essentially all of population. Recommended dietary allowance (us) - similar to rni: newer terminology: dri. Dietary reference intake (new - all of north america) Ai: adequate intake - estimates based on observations of healthy individuals used when there is insufficient data to determine rda. Ul: upper limit - many nutrients have a limit, where over that it will cause problems. Ear: estimated average requirement - amount of a nutrient that would meet the needs of. 50% of the individuals in a particular group (age or gender) (add 2 standard deviation: esaddi. Estimated safe and adequate daily dietary intake. Balance technique: classic method used to determine dietary recommendations, used for many years, measure of difference between amount of nutrient that enters body (eaten) and what is exerted from all routes, laboratory measure. Is difficult especially on the output side. Errors tend to be on the positive size.
