NTDT200 Lecture 2: Chapter 2: Planning a Healthy Diet

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Nutrition and Dietetics
• Course: NTDT200
• Professor: Soucy, Irene

Document Summary

Eating pattern: the combo of many different foods and beverages at numerous meals over days, months and years. Reflects a diet that provides sufficient energy and enough of all the nutrients to meet the needs of healthy people. Such as including foods that contain enough iron. Involves consuming enough-not too much- of different types of foods in proportion to one another. Energy coming in the body should=energy being used by the body. Upsetting balance leads to gain or lose. Foods that deliver the most nutrients for the least food energy. Empty-kcalorie foods: foods low in nutrient density. Deliver a lot of energy but little or no nutrient value. Nutrient profiling is the science of classifying or ranking foods according to their nutritional composition for reasons related to preventing disease and promoting health. Contributes to adequacy, balance and kcalorie control. People only eating certain foods on occasion and regularly selecting foods low in solid fats and added sugars.