Nutrition Science And Application 2022

Running head: NUTRITION SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS
Nutrition Science and Applications
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Nutrition Science and Applications
Acquiring relevant information regarding nutritional status is essential since
it helps to identify the possible vital nutrients. It also safeguards various groups of
people encountering lack of proper nutrients, and to create effective public health
strategies to respond to disparaging nutrition arrangements that contribute high
cases of deaths (Ambrosie, 2017). According to Mahan, & Raymond, (2017).
There are several methods of assessing nutrition in a population, which includes:
Biochemical assessment, BMI, and Anthropometric assessment.
Biochemical assessment
Akseer et al. (2017) noted that human bodies require essential nourishment
by ensuring they consume a balanced diet to satisfy the body necessities and to
retain physiological body requirements. Inappropriate nutrition leads to ingesting
too much calorie or improper supply of the necessary nutrients. Excessive
ingestion of calories leads to overweight and results in obesity and other non-
communicable illnesses. On the other side, under-nutrition triggered when
insufficient nutrients are consumed and taking low energy giving food leading to
severe health problems, and is usually experienced in developing nations
(Champagne, & Bray,2017). A lot of complications related to nutrition is
encountered, such as deficiency diseases and even mortality as well as morbidity
through lowered body immunity.

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The biochemical assessment utilizes lab dimensions of serum proteins,
serum micro-nutrient intensities, serum fats, and immunological factors to
ascertain the overall dietary status through the identification of particular
nutritional deficiencies. Nutrients could be assessed using this method by
analyzing the number of nutrients in the blood, feces, urine, and hair.
Anthropometric Assessment
This method uses the body dimensions to evaluate the nutritional content in
the human body. It is a practical and instant appropriate technique to assess the
infant's growth patterns at early stages of development. An assessment of children's
growth may also offer a proper understanding of the nutrition and health conditions
of the whole population targeted. However, this method is a bit inaccurate
compared to BMI and biochemical techniques during the assessment of the
individual nutritional standing. This technique is appropriate in circumstances
where resources are adversely inadequate (Mahan, & Raymond, 2017). However,
this technique can be applied to assess groups under the risk of malnutrition, and
use other methods to screen individuals that need more investigation.
BMI
Body Mass Index is a commonly used method to assess nutritional status.
However, this technique is considered practical; it cannot be used to differentiate
the lean body mass from the fat. BMI is usually calculated by diving the weight in