Kid_Nutrition

Kid Nutrition There are five basic food groups, vegetables, fruits, grains, dairy products and the protein groups. What is an RDA' It won’t be uncalled for to see a question where they define it and you have to pick out the answer. "Levels for intakes for the central nutrients that, on the basis of scientific knowledge, are judged by the Food and Nutrition Board to be adequate to meet the known nutrition needs of practically all healthy persons." It’s pretty vague, isn’t it' What’s an essential nutrient' That’s something that’s got to be provided exogenously usually from your diet because our bodies cannot synthesize it at a sufficient rate to meet the needs of our body. There are some things that we can make but we can’t make enough of and we need to get them from our foods in order to avoid having a deficiency. What are the eight major categories of nutrients' All of these are considered nutrients, so there are eight that our body needs that are really essential. You can’t have a normally functioning body without all of them. Be aware that when we are born we are mostly water. But when we are young adults we become deficiency, patients, acid, very, vitamin, it’s, because, again, water, one, about, protein, milk, fatty, fat, diet, know, linoleic, that’s, out, children, zinc, toxicity, skin, manifestations, body, don’t, things, really, much, infants, hair, essential, diarrhea, b12, acids