Lab 2 nutrition

CONCLUSION

Food composition databases work synergistically with improved dietary assessment

software to provide a greatly improved ability to evaluate diets at both the individual and group
levels. Food and nutrition professionals can play an important role in ensuring that food
composition databases meet the highest standards and that they are used appropriately by
consumers who are seeking better nutrition information and by health professionals in their
research and practice. Better dietary assessment methods and better food composition data
ultimately result in greatly improved estimates of dietary intakes.

Nutrition education is an important factor in overall improvement for society health and
prevention of all forms of malnutrition. For spreading such education schools are ideal
platforms, for promoting lifelong healthy eating habits and lifestyles in community. Most
countries nowadays implement health education programme in schools which include feeding
to students, deworming, vitamin and mineral supplementation. Children must understand the
importance of minerals, vitamins proteins, fluid balance as well as limiting calorific value of
food that one should consume at different ages.

Total energy intake is often related to disease risk because of associations between physical
activity or body size and the probability of disease. In theory, differences in disease incidence
may also be related to metabolic efficiency and therefore to total energy intake. Because intakes
of most specific nutrients, particularly macronutrients, are correlated with total energy intake,
they may be noncausally associated with disease as a result of confounding by total energy
intake. In addition, extraneous variation in nutrient intake resulting from variation in total
energy intake that is unrelated to disease risk may weaken associations. Furthermore,
individuals or populations must alter their intake of specific nutrients primarily by altering the
composition of their diets rather than by changing their total energy intake, unless physical
activity or body weight are changed substantially. Thus, adjustment for total energy intake is
usually appropriate in epidemiologic studies to control for confounding, reduce extraneous
variation, and predict the effect of dietary interventions. Failure to account for total energy
intake can obscure associations between nutrient intakes and disease risk or even reverse the
direction of association.