LESSON 1 HISTORY OF NUTRITION.pdf

NCM 212: NUTRIITON AND DIET THERAPY: HISTORY OF NUTRIITON INTRODUCTION OF TERMS  People began to realize the importance of CHO, Studies conducted and published are the follo...

NCM 212: NUTRIITON AND DIET THERAPY: HISTORY OF NUTRIITON INTRODUCTION OF TERMS  People began to realize the importance of CHO, Studies conducted and published are the following: FOOD - food is vital for human existence. Food may be LIPIDS, and PROTEINS for normal growth and Basal metabolic standards for Filipino students defined as anything eaten or drunk, that meets the needs development. (Fleming O. Santos 1923) of tissue building, regulation, and protection of the body Calcium content of local foods (Adriano-1925) and its energy needs. DISCOVERY OF VITAMINS Height and weight Table- Siasoco and Goco DIET - refers to whatever people eat, and drink each day. VITAMIN YEAR VITAMIN YEAR 1932 The word “nutrition” is derived from nutricus meaning Vitamin A 1913 Vitamin E 1936  The National Research Council (NRC) of the to “suckle”. Vitamin B 1919 Vitamin B1 1936 Philippines was established and a section on nutrition NUTRITION - may be defined as the utilization of food by Vitamin C 1925 Vitamin B6 1936 was created under the Chairmanship of F.O. Santos living organisms. Nutrition significantly promotes man’s Vitamin K 1935 Vitamin B9 1948 (Father of Nutrition in the Phils.) development, health, and welfare. Vitamin B2 1935 1951  FOOD COMMISSION was created by President HISTORY OF NUTRITION HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS OF NUTRITION IN THE Elpidio Quirino. It established nutrition services related  The first recorded dietary advice, carved into a PHILIPPINES to the production, distribution, and consumption of food. Babylonian stone tablet in about 2500 BC, cautioned 1903-1923 1960 UP TO PRESENT those with pain inside to avoid eating onions for three  Studies done by American and foreign scientists aided  Attempts of the government and private sectors to days. by Filipino workers. coordinate all activities related to food, nutrition, and  Scurvy, later found to be a vitamin C deficiency, was  Studies on beri-beri and proximate composition of foods agriculture throughout the Philippines to solve first described in 1500 BC in the Ebers Papyrus. and worked on Filipino and physiological standards. malnutrition in the country.  According to Walter Gratzer, the study of nutrition Other studies conducted were: 1960 probably began during the 6th century BC. 1. Analysis of various foods by Gibbs and Agcaoili(1912)  The National Coordinating Council on Foods and  Food was classified into "hot" (for example, meats, 2. Analysis on Philippine fruits by Pratt(1913) Nutrition (NCCFN) was organized by Dr. Conrado blood, ginger, and hot spices) and "cold" (green 3. Analysis on varieties of rice by Wells (1923) Pascual. (marked the formal beginning of the vegetables) in China, India, Malaya, and Persia 1914 coordination of applied nutrition, nutrition research as  Hippocrates, who recognized and was concerned with  The UP College of Agriculture published studies well as food research activities). obesity, which may have been common in southern made by their investigators. JULY 1, 1960 Europe at the time, said, "Let food be your medicine and 1. Gonzales on coconut  The DOH established the NNP now the National medicine be your food.” 2. Dacanay on Philippine bananas Nutrition Service, and through its mothercraft centers  The book that is still attributed to him, Corpus 3. Labayan on sweet potatoes helped prevent malnutrition among the preschoolers. Hippocraticum, called for moderation and emphasized  Vedder And R.R. Williams 1968 exercise. Cause of beriberi – large scale of manufacture of tiki-  The Malnutrition Ward was first established by Dr. F.  Nutrition was officially recognized as an independent tiki extracts (initiated by Bureau of Sciences, one of Solon at Southern Island Hospital in Cebu and is now field of study in 1928 with the formation of American the first institutions established in the country). These made a part of their service in almost all government Institute of Nutrition. extracts reduced infant mortality rate among infants. hospitals.  Nutrition research tries to find out the impact of food on 1923-1943 (SECOND PERIOD) JANUARY 21,1971 our body by examining the progress in allied fields, such  Intensification of research studies in our country  Pres. Marcos issued Executive Order no. 285, as physics, chemistry, biochemistry, and immunology.  Research studies were organized and more funds and authorizing the National Food and Agricultural It is a new field of study, about one hundred years old. facilities were made available to our Filipino scientists. Council to coordinate all food and nutrition programs in  Hippocrates had recognized diet as a component of the country. The program was referred to as the health in 300 BC. Philippine Food and Nutrition Program (PFNP).  NCM 212: NUTRIITON AND DIET THERAPY: HISTORY OF NUTRIITON JUNE 25,1974  The National Nutrition Council was created under the DIETITIANS Nutrition is required for the following purposes. office of the President by Presidential Decree 491  are health professionals who specialize in human GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT (Nutrition Act). was charged with the task of formulating nutrition, meal planning, economics, and preparation. Body cells multiply regularly. They increase in size also. an integrated Nutrition nationwide. The act designated  they are trained to provide safe, evidence-based For these processes and to replace damaged and worn- JULY as Nutrition Month dietary advice and management to individuals (in health out tissues, new protoplasm is continuously required. JULY 2, 1974 and disease), as well as to institutions. Food helps in the formation of new protoplasm in the  The Nutrition Center of the Philippines by Mrs. Imelda MALNUTRITION body. Marcos generates interest and resources from among a pathological state resulting from a relative or absolute RELEASE OF ENERGY private sectors and international institutions. deficiency or excess of one or more essential nutrients. Energy is required for performing various life process like  It designs specific projects and activities toward erasing It comprises four forms UNDER NUTRITION, OVER- ingestion, digestion, absorption, movement, co- the malnutrition problems in the country NUTRITION, IMBALANCE, AND SPECIFIC ordination, secretion, circulation, respiration, etc. energy 1977 DEFICIENCY. required for these processes is released by the oxidation  PD 1286(The Nutrition and Dietetics Decree of 1977) UNDER NUTRITION is a condition that results when of food in the protoplasm. regulates the practice of nutrition and dietetics. It sets insufficient food is eaten over an extended period of FORMATION OF ORGANIC SUBSTANCE minimum requirements for nutritionists and dietitians for time. In extreme cases, it is called starvation. Many organic substances like enzymes and hormones hospitals and nutrition agencies OVER NUTRITION is a pathological state resulting are required by living beings. These are produced from 1978 from the consumption of an excessive quantity of the raw materials provided by food.  PD 1956 proclaimed to further strengthen the Nutrition food over an extended period of time. Examples: REGULATING METABOLIC PROCESSES Program of the country. It provides for the Barangay obesity, atheroma, and diabetes. Food is required by the organisms for various other Nutrition Scholar(BNS) for every Barangay IMBALANCED NUTRITION refers to either nutrition metabolic activities. For maintaining and repairing that is more than or less than the body’s various parts, the food provides basic raw materials. requirements and metabolic needs. It can occur with GIVING RESISTANCE TO INFECTION DEFINITION OF TERMS any individual. Food is also helpful in building up the resistance against NUTRITION SPECIFIC DEFICIENCY is a pathological state diseases  is defined as the science of food and its relationship to resulting from a relative or absolute lack of an health. It is the study of nutrients and processes by which individual nutrient. they are used by the body. It is concerned with the part ROLE OF NUTRITION IN MAINTAINING HEALTH played by nutrients in the body's growth, development, Nutrition includes all those processes of a living and maintenance. being whereby it takes food, digests it, and utilizes  is the selection of foods and preparation of foods, and the digested materials for its survival, growth, and their ingestion to be assimilated by the body. By repair of worn-out parts of the body. Digested and practicing a healthy diet, many of the known health assimilated materials become the food for cells. issues can be avoided. The diet of an organism is what it Nutrition is fundamental for our own health, essential eats, which is largely determined by the perceived for health and wellbeing, and prevents malnutrition. palatability of foods.