Chapter 1 overview of nutrition

... Health Benefits What is Nutrition? Nutrition • The study of the nutrients and their digestion, absorption, transport, metabolism, interaction, storage, and excretion Nutrition • Everything that... Excess of energy is store in the body Energy • Energy is measured in Kcalories • IU: kjoules How we know how much calories we consume? • gram of CHO x kcal • gram of protein x kcal • gram of fat... nutritional deficiencies • 1989, last update of the RDAs Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) • DRI Committees • A set of values for the dietary nutrient intakes of healthy people • Used to plan and assess