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Tools for Diet Design

Chapter 2 is designed to allow you to:
    1. Develop an eating plan based on the concepts of variety, balance, moderation, nutrient density, and energy density.
    2. Outline the ABCDEs of nutrition assessment: anthropometric, biochemical, clinical, dietary, and economic.
    3. Describe what the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) represent and how these relate to the other standards included in the new Dietary Reference Intakes.
    4. Learn the food groupings used in the Food Guide Pyramid and list potentially inadequate nutrients in that diet plan.
    5. List the Dietary Guidelines and the diseases these guidelines are designed to prevent or minimize.
    6. Describe what a nutrition label currently consists of, and when and which health claims are allowed on a food package.
    7. Describe various ethnic influences on the North American diet.







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