NUTR100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dietary Reference Intake, Quackery, Quality Control
13 Jun 2018
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Chapter 1: Additional Readings
Quakery: the practice of promoting medical services or products that have no proven
effiectiveness or validity based on scientific research
- Based on misinformation, misleading people for economic gain
- Two factors for nutrition quackery to flourish
o Misinformation to create demand for a product
o Lack of nutrition knowledge that prevents people from evaluating information
- Direct consequences: damage induced by toxic ingredients
- Indirect: economic consequences of spending money on expensive, ineffective products
Red Flags of Junk Science:
1. Recommendations that promise quick fix
2. Dire warnings of danger from a single product or regimen
3. Sounds too good to be true
4. Simplistic conclusions from complex study
5. Recommended based on single study
6. Dramatic statements refuted by reputable scientific organizations
7. Lists of good and bad foods
8. Recommendations to help sell a product
9. Reccomendations based on study published without peer review
10. Studies ignore differences among individuals or groups
CARS checklist:
- Credibility
o Author credentials
o Organizational authorship
o Quality control
- Accuracy
o Timeliness
o Completeness
- Reasonablenes
o Fairness
o Objectivity
o Moderateness
- Supportability
o Bibliographies
o Corroboration
o External Consistency
Chapter 2: Additional Readings
- Adequate Intake (AI): is the reference value if sufficient scientific evidence is not
available to calculate an EAR, the AI is based in observed or experimentally determined
approximations of the average nutrient intake of a defined population or subgroup that
appears to maintain a normal nutritional state
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Document Summary
Quakery: the practice of promoting medical services or products that have no proven effiectiveness or validity based on scientific research. Based on misinformation, misleading people for economic gain. Two factors for nutrition quackery to flourish: misinformation to create demand for a product, lack of nutrition knowledge that prevents people from evaluating information. Direct consequences: damage induced by toxic ingredients. Indirect: economic consequences of spending money on expensive, ineffective products. Credibility: author credentials, organizational authorship, quality control. Tolerable upper intake levels: highest level of daily nutrient intake that likely will not cause adverse effects in almost all individuals in the general population. Shows the recommended servings per day, and what is a serving. Rainbow design and proportion of rainbow shows the proportion uou should be eating. Background image supports where the food comes from. Fruits and veggies: vit ac, folate, mg, k. Dairy: protein, calcium, riboflavin, vit a and d. sunlight breaks down riboflavin.
