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About the Author
JUDITH E. BROWN is Professor Emerita of Nutrition at the School of Public
Health, and of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University
of Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in human nutrition from Florida State
University and her M.P.H. in public health nutrition from the University of
Michigan. Dr. Brown has received competitively funded research grants from the
National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and has over 100 publications in the
scientific literature including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal
of the American Medical Association, and the Journal of the American Dietetic
Association. A recipient of the Agnes Higgins Award in Maternal Nutrition from
the March of Dimes, Dr. Brown is a registered dietitian and the successful author
of Everywoman’s Guide to Nutrition, Nutrition for Your Pregnancy, and What to Eat
Before, During, and After Pregnancy.
the au thor
Cour tesy of
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Contents in Brief
Preface xviii UNIT 23 Good Things to Know about Minerals 23-1
UNIT 1 Key Nutrition Concepts and Terms 1-1 UNIT 24 Dietary Supplements 24-1
UNIT 2 The Inside Story about Nutrition UNIT 25 Water Is an Essential Nutrient 25-1
and Health 2-1
UNIT 26 Nutrient–Gene Interactions in Health
UNIT 3 Ways of Knowing about Nutrition 3-1 and Disease 26-1
UNIT 4 Understanding Food and Nutrition Labels 4-1 UNIT 27 Nutrition and Physical Fitness
for Everyone 27-1
UNIT 5 Nutrition, Attitudes, and Behavior 5-1
UNIT 28 Nutrition and Physical Performance 28-1
UNIT 6 Healthy Dietary Patterns, Dietary Guidelines,
MyPlate, and More 6-1 UNIT 29 Good Nutrition for Life: Pregnancy, Breast-
feeding, and Infancy 29-1
UNIT 7 How the Body Uses Food: Digestion
and Absorption 7-1 UNIT 30 Nutrition for the Growing Years: Childhood
through Adolescence 30-1
UNIT 8 Calories! Food, Energy, and Energy
Balance 8-1 UNIT 31 Nutrition and Health Maintenance for Adults of
All Ages 31-1
UNIT 9 Obesity to Underweight: The Highs
and Lows of Weight Status 9-1 UNIT 32 The Multiple Dimensions of Food Safety 32-1
UNIT 10 Weight Control: The Myths and Realities 10-1 UNIT 33 Aspects of Global Nutrition 33-1
UNIT 11 Disordered Eating: Anorexia and Bulimia Appendix A Table of Food Composition A-1
Nervosa, Binge-Eating Disorder,
and Pica 11-1 Appendix B Reliable Sources of Nutrition
Information B-1
UNIT 12 Useful Facts about Sugars, Starches,
and Fiber 12-1 Appendix C Aids to Calculations C-1
UNIT 13 Diabetes Now 13-1 Appendix D Table of Intentional Food Additives D-1
UNIT 14 Alcohol: The Positives and Negatives 14-1 Appendix E Cells E-1
UNIT 15 Proteins and Amino Acids 15-1 Appendix F Feedback and Answers to Nutrition Up
Close and Review Questions F-1
UNIT 16 Vegetarian Dietary Patterns 16-1
Glossary GL-1
UNIT 17 Food Allergies and Intolerances 17-1
References R-1
UNIT 18 Fats and Health 18-1
Index I-1
UNIT 19 Nutrition and Heart Disease 19-1
UNIT 20 Vitamins and Your Health 20-1
UNIT 21 Phytochemicals 21-1
UNIT 22 Diet and Cancer 22-1
CO N T E N T S I N B R I E F v
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Contents
UNIT 1 Key Nutrition Concepts and Terms 1-1
The Meaning of Nutrition 1-2
Nutrition Defined 1-2
Foundation Knowledge for Thinking about Nutrition 1-5

Who Are the Food Insecure? 1-6
Calories 1-6
Nutrients 1-6
Other Substances in Food 1-7
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NUTRITION UP CLOSE Nutrition Concepts Review 1-17
Review Questions 1-17
Nutrition Scoreboard Answers 1-18
UNIT 2 The Inside Story about Nutrition and Health 2-1

Nutrition in the Context of Overall Health 2-2
The Nutritional State of the Nation 2-3
The Importance of Food Choices 2-5
Diet and Diseases of Western Civilization 2-5

Our Bodies Haven’t Changed 2-5
Different Diets, Different Disease Rates 2-7
The Power of Prevention 2-8
Improving the American Diet 2-9

What Should We Eat? 2-10
Nutrition Surveys: Tracking the American Diet 2-10
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Food Types for Healthful Diets 2-11

UNIT 3 Ways of Knowing about Nutrition 3-1

How Do I Know if What I Read or Hear about Nutrition Is True? 3-2
Profits, Prophets, and Proof 3-2
nutrition timeline
1621 1702 1734 1744
First Thanksgiving feast First coffeehouse in America Scurvy recognized First record of ice cream in America
at Plymouth colony opens in Philadelphia at Maryland colony
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How to Identify Nutrition Truths 3-6
Sources of Reliable Nutrition Information 3-7
The Methods of Science 3-9
Developing the Plan 3-9
The Hypothesis: Making the Question Testable 3-10
The Research Design: Gathering the Right Information 3-11
Obtaining Approval to Study Human Subjects 3-14
Implementing the Study 3-14
Making Sense of the Results 3-14
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Checking Out a Fat-Loss Product 3-15

UNIT 4 Understanding Food and Nutrition Labels 4-1

Nutrition Labeling 4-2
Key Elements of Nutrition Labeling Standards 4-2
Dietary Supplement Labeling 4-8
Structure or Function Claims 4-9
The COOL Rule 4-9
Organic Foods 4-9
Labeling Organic Foods 4-9
Other Nutrition Labeling Systems 4-10
Calories on Display 4-11
Upcoming Nutrition Label Revisions 4-11
Beyond Nutrition Labels 4-12
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Understanding Food Labels 4-14
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UNIT 5 Nutrition, Attitudes, and Behavior 5-1

Origins of Food Choices 5-2
We Don’t Instinctively Know What to Eat 5-2
Food Preferences 5-3
Food Preferences and Choices Do Change 5-5
How Do Food Choices Change? 5-6
Successful Changes in Food Choices 5-7
1747 1750 1762 1771 1774

Lind publishes “Treatise on Scurvy,” Ojibway and Sioux war over control Sandwich invented by the Earl Potato heralded as famine food Americans drink more coffee in
citrus identified as cure of wild rice stands of Sandwich protest over Britain’s tea tax
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Does Diet Affect Behavior? 5-8
Malnutrition and Mental Performance 5-9
The Future of Diet and Behavior Research 5-11
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Improving Food Choices 5-12
UNIT 6 H
ealthy Dietary Patterns, Dietary Guidelines,
MyPlate, and More 6-1
Healthy Eating: Achieving a Balance between Good Taste
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and Good for You 6-2
Characteristics of Healthy Dietary Patterns 6-3
Healthy Dietary Patterns Identified for the United States 6-4
National Guides for Healthful Diets 6-5
Dietary Guidelines for Americans 6-6
ChooseMyPlate 6-9
ChooseMyPlate.gov Healthy Eating Messages 6-9
Healthy U.S.-Style Dietary Pattern 6-10
The DASH Eating Plan 6-13
The Healthy Mediterranean Dietary Pattern 6-13
Realities of the Food Environment 6-14
Portion Distortion 6-15
Bon Appétit! 6-17
NUTRITION UP CLOSE The Pros and Cons of Fast Food Dining 6-19
UNIT 7 How the Body Uses Food: Digestion and Absorption 7-1
My Body, My Food 7-2
How Do Nutrients in Food Become Available for the Body’s Use? 7-2
Digestive Disorders 7-9
Constipation 7-9
Ulcers 7-11
Heartburn 7-11
Irritable Bowel Syndrome 7-11
Diarrhea 7-11
Flatulence 7-12
nutrition timeline
1775 1816 1833 1862 1871
Lavoisier (“the father of the science Protein and amino acids identified, Beaumont’s experiments on a U.S. Department of Agriculture Proteins, carbohydrates, and fats
of nutrition”) discovers the energy- followed by carbohydrates and fats wounded man’s stomach greatly founded by authorization of Presi- determined to be insufficient to sup-
producing property of food in the mid-1800s expand dent Abraham Lincoln port life; there are other “essential”
knowledge components
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NUTRITION UP CLOSE Carbohydrate, Fat, and Protein Digestion 7-13

UNIT 8 Calories! Food, Energy, and Energy Balance 8-1

Energy! 8-2
The Body’s Need for Energy 8-2
Where’s the Energy in Foods? 8-5

Most Foods Are a Mixture 8-7
Energy Density 8-8
How Are Food and Energy Intake Regulated
by the Body? 8-8
Keep Calories in Perspective 8-10
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Food as a Source of Calories 8-11

UNIT 9 O
besity to Underweight: The Highs and Lows
of Weight Status 9-1
Variations in Body Weight 9-2
How Is Weight Status Defined? 9-2
Body Mass Index 9-3
Overweight and Obesity 9-3

Body Fat and Health: Location, Location, Location 9-5
Assessment of Body Fat Content 9-8
What Causes Obesity? 9-8
Obesity: The Future Lies in Its Prevention 9-11
Underweight 9-12
Underweight Defined 9-12
Underweight and Longevity in Adults 9-12
Toward a Realistic View of Body Weight 9-13
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Size Acceptance 9-13
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Are You an Apple? 9-15

1895 1896 1906 1910 1912

First milk station providing children Atwater publishes Proximate Pure Food and Drug Act signed by Pasteurized milk introduced Funk suggests scurvy, beriberi, and
with uncontaminated milk opens in Composition of Food Materials President Theodore Roosevelt to pellagra caused by deficiency of
New York City protect consumers against “vitamines” in the diet
contaminated foods
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UNIT 10 Weight Control: The Myths and Realities 10-1
Weight Control Nation 10-2
Weight Loss versus Weight Control 10-2
Weight Control 10-4

Weight-Control Methods: The Evidence 10-5
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Successful Weight-Control Programs 10-7
Obesity Surgery 10-8
Weight Loss: Making It Last 10-10
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Setting Small Behavior
Change Goals 10-13
UNIT 11 D
isordered Eating: Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa,
Binge-Eating Disorder, and Pica 11-1
Eating Disorders 11-2
Anorexia Nervosa 11-2
Bulimia Nervosa 11-5
Binge-Eating Disorder 11-6
Pica 11-7
Proposed Eating Disorders 11-9
Resources for Eating Disorders 11-10
Prevention of Eating Disorders 11-11
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Eating Attitudes Test 11-12

UNIT 12 Useful Facts about Sugars, Starches, and Fiber 12-1

Carbohydrates 12-2
Simple Sugar Facts 12-3
The Alcohol Sugars—What Are They? 12-6
Artificial Sweetener Facts 12-7
Complex Carbohydrate Facts 12-10
Glycemic Index of Carbohydrates 12-14
Carbohydrates and Dental Health 12-15

There’s More to Tooth Decay Than Sugar Per Se 12-16
nutrition timeline
1913 1914 1916 1917 1921
First vitamin discovered (vitamin A) Goldberger identifies the cause of First dietary guidance material First food groups published—the First fortified food produced: iodized
pellagra (niacin deficiency) in poor produced for the public released; Five Food Groups: Milk and Meat; salt, needed to prevent widespread
children to be a missing component title is “Food for Young Children” Vegetables and Fruits; Cereals; Fats iodine-deficiency goiter in many
of the diet rather than a germ as and Fat Foods; Sugars and parts of the
others believed Sugary Foods United States
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Lactose Maldigestion and Intolerance 12-17
How Is Lactose Maldigestion Managed? 12-19
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Does Your Fiber Intake Measure Up? 12-20
UNIT 13 Diabetes Now 13-1

The Diabetes Epidemic 13-2
Health Consequences of Diabetes 13-3
Type 2 Diabetes 13-3
Managing Type 2 Diabetes 13-5
Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes 13-8
Type 1 Diabetes 13-9
Gestational Diabetes 13-10
Hypoglycemia 13-11
Diabetes in the Future 13-11
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Calculating Carbohydrates 13-12
UNIT 14 Alcohol: The Positives and Negatives 14-1

Alcohol Facts 14-2
The Positive 14-2
The Negative 14-3
Alcohol Intake, Diet Quality, and Nutrient Status 14-4
How the Body Handles Alcohol 14-5
What Causes Alcohol Dependency? 14-8
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Effects of Alcohol Intake 14-9
UNIT 15 Proteins and Amino Acids 15-1

ROSENFELD/AGE Fotostock
Protein 15-2
Functions of Protein 15-2
Amino Acids 15-4
Protein Quality 15-5
Food as a Source of Protein 15-7
1928 1929 1930s 1937 1938 1941

American Society for Essential fatty acids identified Vitamin C identified in 1932, Pellagra found to be due Health Canada issues nutrient First refined grain enrichment
Nutritional Sciences and the followed by pantothenic acid to a deficiency of niacin intake standards standards developed
Journal of Nutrition founded and riboflavin in 1933 and
vitamin K in 1934
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NUTRITION UP CLOSE My Protein Intake 15-10

UNIT 16 Vegetarian Dietary Patterns 16-1

Perspectives on Vegetarian Dietary Patterns 16-2
Reasons for Vegetarianism 16-2
Health Implications of Vegetarian Dietary Patterns 16-4
Dietary Recommendations for Vegetarians 16-5
Where to Go for More Information on Vegetarian Diets 16-10
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NUTRITION UP CLOSE Vegetarian Main Dish Options 16-11
UNIT 17 Food Allergies and Intolerances 17-1

Food Allergy 17-2
Prevalence of Food Allergy 17-2
Adverse Reactions to Foods 17-3
Diagnosis: Is It a Food Allergy? 17-6
Treatment of Food Allergies 17-7
Prevention of Food Allergies 17-7
Food Intolerances 17-7

Lactose Maldigestion and Intolerance 17-8
Sulfite Sensitivity 17-8
Red Wine, Aged Cheese, and Migraines 17-9
MSG and the “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome” 17-9
Food Allergy and Intolerance Precautions 17-9
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Gluten-Free Cuisine 17-10
UNIT 18 Fats and Health 18-1

Fat Intake and Health 18-2
Facts about Fats 18-2
Types of Fat 18-4
The Essential Fatty Acids 18-7
Hydrogenated Fats 18-8
nutrition timeline
1941 1946 1947 1953 1956
First Recommended Dietary Allow- National School Lunch Act passed Vitamin B12 identified Double helix structure of DNA Basic Four Food Groups released by
ances (RDAs) announced by Presi- discovered the U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Cholesterol 18-9
Food Sources of Fat 18-10
The Low-Fat Era Is Over 18-12
NUTRITION UP CLOSE A Focus on DHA and EPA Safe Food Sources 18-14

UNIT 19 Nutrition and Heart Disease 19-1

Nutrition and Heart Disease 19-2
A Primer on Heart Disease 19-2
Who’s at Risk for Heart Disease? 19-5
Healthy Dietary Patterns for Heart Health 19-6
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Evaluate Your Dietary and Lifestyle Strengths for Heart
Disease Prevention 19-10
UNIT 20 Vitamins and Your Health 20-1

Vitamins: They’re on Center Stage 20-2
Vitamin Facts 20-2
What Do Vitamins Do? 20-3
Vitamins and the Prevention and Treatment of Disorders 20-10
Preserving the Vitamin Content of Foods 20-13
Vitamins: Getting Enough Without Getting Too Much 20-14
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Antioxidant Vitamins: How Adequate

Is Your Diet? 20-22
UNIT 21 Phytochemicals 21-1

Phytochemicals: The “What Else”
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in Your Food 21-2

Characteristics of Phytochemicals 21-3
Functions of Phytochemicals in Humans 21-4
Food Sources of Phytochemicals 21-8
Naturally Occurring Toxins in Food 21-8
1965 1966 1968 1970 1972

Food Stamp Act passed, Food Stamp Child Nutrition Act adds school First national nutrition survey in First Canadian national nutrition Special Supplemental Food and Nu-
program established breakfast to the National School U.S. launched (Ten State Nutrition survey launched (Nutrition Canada trition Program for Women, Infants,
Lunch Program Survey) National Survey) and Children (WIC) established
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NUTRITION UP CLOSE Have You Had Your Phytochemicals Today? 21-9
UNIT 22 Diet and Cancer 22-1

What Is Cancer? 22-2
How Does Cancer Develop? 22-2
What Causes DNA Damage? 22-3
Fighting Cancer with a Fork 22-4
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How Do Healthy Dietary Patterns Help Prevent Cancer? 22-4
Bogus Cancer Treatments 22-6
NUTRITION UP CLOSE A Cancer Risk Checkup 22-7
UNIT 23 Good Things to Know about Minerals 23-1

Mineral Facts 23-2
Getting a Charge Out of Minerals 23-2
Selected Minerals: Calcium 23-4
Osteoporosis 23-5
Selected Minerals: Iron 23-12
Selected Minerals: Sodium 23-15
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Processed Foods and Your Diet 23-27
UNIT 24 Dietary Supplements 24-1

Dietary Supplements 24-2
Regulation of Dietary Supplements 24-2
Vitamin and Mineral Supplements: Enough Is as Good as a Feast 24-4
Herbal Remedies 24-5
Prebiotics and Probiotics 24-7
Final Thoughts 24-9
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Supplement Use and Misuse 24-11
nutrition timeline
1977 1978 1989 1992 1997
Dietary Goals for the United States First Health Objectives for the Nation First national scientific consensus The Food Guide pyramid is released RDAs expanded to Dietary Reference
issued released report on diet and chronic disease by the USDA Intakes (DRIs)
published
USDA
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UNIT 25 Water Is an Essential Nutrient 25-1
Water: Where Would We Be Without It? 25-2
Water’s Role as an Essential Nutrient 25-2
Meeting Our Need for Water 25-4
Water Deficiency 25-5
Water Toxicity 25-5
The Nature of Our Water Supply 25-6

Water Sources 25-6
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Foods as a Source of Water 25-9

UNIT 26 Nutrient–Gene Interactions in

Health and Disease 26-1
Nutrition and Genomics 26-2
Genetic Secrets Unfolded 26-2
Single-Gene Defects 26-4
Genetics of Taste 26-5
Nutrition Tomorrow 26-6
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Nature and Nurture 26-7
UNIT 27 N
utrition and Physical Fitness for
Everyone 27-1
Physical Activity: It Offers Something for
Everyone 27-2
The “Happy Consequences” of Physical Activity 27-2
What Is Physical Fitness? 27-3
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Flexibility 27-7
Fueling Physical Activity 27-8
Achieving Physical Fitness 27-9
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Exercise: Your Options 27-12

1998 2003 2015 2018

Folic acid fortification of refined Sequencing of DNA in the human Increasing rates of obesity and type 2 Advances in knowledge of the
grain products begins genome completed; marks beginning diabetes become global epidemics effects of gene variants on nutri-
of new era of research in nutrient– tional status and health begin the
gene interactions “personalized approach” to dietary
recommendations.
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UNIT 28 Nutrition and Physical Performance 28-1
Sports Nutrition 28-2
Basic Components of Energy Formation during Exercise 28-2
Nutrition and Physical Performance 28-4
Hydration 28-7
Nutrition-Related Concerns of Athletes 28-10
Ergogenic Aids: The Athlete’s Dilemma 28-11
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Testing Performance Aids 28-13
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UNIT 29 G
ood Nutrition for Life: Pregnancy,
Breastfeeding, and Infancy 29-1
Nutrition and a Healthy Start in Life 29-2
Improving the Health of U.S. Infants 29-3
Nutrition and Pregnancy 29-3

Critical Periods of Growth and Development 29-3
Developmental Origins of Later Disease Risk 29-4
Prepregnancy Weight Status, Pregnancy Weight Gain, and Pregnancy Outcomes 29-5
The Need for Calories and Key Nutrients during Pregnancy 29-6
Other Dietary Components 29-10
What’s a Good Diet for Pregnancy? 29-11
Breastfeeding 29-12
What’s So Special about Breastmilk? 29-12
Is Breastfeeding Best for All New Mothers and Infants? 29-12
How Breastfeeding Works 29-14

Nutrition and Breastfeeding 29-14
Infant Nutrition 29-15

Infant Growth 29-15
Infant Feeding Recommendations 29-17
The Development of Healthy Eating Habits Begins in Infancy 29-18
NUTRITION UP CLOSE You Be the Judge! 29-20

UNIT 30 N
utrition for the Growing Years: Childhood through
Adolescence 30-1
The Span of Growth and Development 30-2
The Nutritional Foundation 30-2
Characteristics of Growth in Children 30-2
Nutrition for the Growing Years 30-8

Nutrient Needs of Children and Adolescents 30-10
Helping Children Learn the Right Lessons about Food 30-13
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Obesity Prevention Close to Home 30-15

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UNIT 31 N
utrition and Health Maintenance for Adults
of All Ages 31-1
Nutrition for Adults of All Ages 31-2
The Age Wave 31-2
Diet and Health Promotion for Adults of All Ages 31-4

Nutrient Needs 31-4
Dietary Recommendations for Adults of All Ages 31-5
Physical Activity Recommendations for Adults 31-8
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Does He Who Laughs, Last? 31-10

UNIT 32 The Multiple Dimensions of Food Safety 32-1

Threats to the Safety of the Food Supply 32-2
How Good Foods Go Bad 32-2
Causes and Consequences of Food-Borne Illness 32-4
Other Causes of Food-Borne Illnesses 32-5
Preventing Food-Borne Illnesses 32-8

Food Safety Regulations 32-8
Food Safety Basics 32-9
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Food Safety Detective 32-15

UNIT 33 Aspects of Global Nutrition 33-1

State of the World’s Health 33-2
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The “Nutrition Transition” 33-2

Food and Nutrition: The Global Challenge 33-4
The Future 33-8
NUTRITION UP CLOSE Ethnic Foods Treasure Hunt 33-9

Appendix A Table of Food Composition A-1

Appendix B Reliable Sources of Nutrition Information B-1
Appendix C Aids to Calculations C-1
Appendix D Table of Intentional Food Additives D-1
Appendix E Cells E-1
Appendix F F
eedback and Answers to Nutrition Up Close
and Review Questions F-1
Glossary GL-1
References R-1
Index I-1
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Preface
“Everything should be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
—ALBERT EINSTEIN
Welcome to the enhanced 8th edition of Nutrition Now, an introductory, science-based, and
application-oriented textbook for your nutrition courses. The text contains multiple
critical thinking and decision-making activities for students, organized around key
nutrition concepts and specific learning objectives. This updated release of Nutrition Now
reflects a move toward increased use of a broad variety of digital resources intended to
enhance student learning, and to lighten the weight and cost of this text book.
This edition of Nutrition Now catches up with advances in the field of nutrition:
●● MyPlate resources
●● healthy dietary patterns and health
●● prevention of peanut allergy
●● the prevalence of food allergies and likely reasons for it
●● microbiota, diet, and inflammation
●● nutrition label components
●● health effects of refined carbohydrates and highly processed foods
●● “relative energy deficiency in sports” (RED-S)
●● wheat intolerance syndrome
●● effects of total fat and saturated fat on health
●● functions and health effects of brown fat and white fat
●● “best sources” of fish and recommendations for intake
●● origins of gene variants, their interaction with dietary intake, and health effects related
to gene variants and diet
●● the lack of benefit of vitamin and mineral supplements, and other dietary supplements
●● salt intake, salt sensitivity, and blood pressure
●● physical activity recommendations
●● dietary and supplement recommendations for pregnancy
●● diagnostic standards for fetal alcohol syndrome
●● health effects of artificial sweeteners
●● infant feeding recommendations and the weight status group of “severe obesity” in
children
●● dietary and lifestyle factors related to recent decline in longevity
●● nutrition and menopause in women and andropause in men
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●● health effects of worldwide, increased availability of inexpensive sugary, fast, and highly
processed foods that replace foods traditionally consumed
●● the effects of climate changes on availability of croplands, water, food supplies, and
malnutrition.
In addition, “Nutrition Up Close,” “Reality Check,” “Take Action,” and review ques-
tions have been modified to reflect content changes.
Nutrition Now continues to be oriented toward enhancing instructors’
teaching experiences and helping students build a firm foundation of scientific
knowledge and understanding about nutrition that will serve them well throughout
their careers and life.
Pedagogical Features
There are 33 units in Nutrition Now, and all but the first unit can be used in any
order. Each unit begins with learning objectives, and content and review questions at
the end of the units are organized around the learning objectives. Student group and
individual activities based on real-life situations are presented online in MindTap,
along with a variety of videos, review questions, and interactive learning activities.
Activities include taste testing to identify genetically determined sensitivity to
bitterness, developing a dietary behavioral change plan, anthropometry lab,
designing fraudulent nutrition products, a physical activity assessment, and an
assessment of three days of dietary intake.
Resources for the Instructor

●● Nutrition MindTap for Nutrition Now. Instant Access Code, ISBN-13: 9781305868304.
MindTap is well beyond an e-book, a homework solution or digital supplement, a
resource center website, a course delivery platform, or a learning management system.
More than 70 percent of students surveyed said it was unlike anything they have seen
before. MindTap is a new personal learning experience that combines all your digital
assets—readings, multimedia, activities, and assessments—into a singular learning
path to improve student outcomes.
●● Diet & Wellness Plus The Diet & Wellness Plus app in MindTap helps you gain a better
understanding of how nutrition relates to your personal health goals. It enables you
to track your diet and activity, generate reports, and analyze the nutritional value of
the food you eat! It includes more than 55,000 foods in the database, custom food and
recipe features, the latest dietary references, as well as your goal and actual percentages
of essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals. It also helps you identify a problem
behavior and make a positive change. After completing a wellness profile question-
naire, Diet & Wellness Plus will rate the level of concern for eight different areas of
wellness, helping you determine the areas where you are most at risk. It then helps you
put together a plan for positive change by helping you select a goal to work toward—
complete with a reward for all your hard work.
The Diet & Wellness Plus app is accessed from the app dock in MindTap and can
be used throughout the course for students to track their diet and activity and behavior
change. There are activities and labs in the course that have students access the app
to further extend learning and integrate course content.
●● Instructor Companion Site Everything you need for your course in one place! This
collection of book-specific lecture and class tools is available online via www.cengage
.com/login. Access and download PowerPoint presentations, images, instructor’s
manual, videos, and more.
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Acknowledgments
My thanks and appreciation go out to Oden Connolly, Content Manager for Sciences
at Cengage. Oden effectively managed to build the complex web that now incorporates
updates to the Nutrition Now text and its expanding digital components.
It is said that instructors adopt a specific textbook but that students play a major role
in instructors’ decision to keep it. I am honored that you chose to adopt Nutrition Now
and deeply pleased with the thought that students are helping you decide to keep it.
Reviewers’ feedback is the lifeline of text writing, and the reviewers of the eighth
edition conveyed very useful advice that was incorporated into the eighth edition. The
advice led me to some very interesting places on specific topics that changed my
thinking and writing. Thank you for the helpful information and please keep your
comments coming.
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Key Nutrition NUTRITION SCOREBOARD
UNIT
1
1 Calories are a component of food. True/False
Concepts and
2 Nutrients are substances in food that are used by the
body for growth and health. True/False
3 Inadequate intakes of vitamins and minerals can harm
Terms
health, but high intakes do not. True/False
4 “Dietary Reference Intakes” (DRIs) provide science-
based standards for nutrient intake. True/False
Answers can be found at the end of the unit.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES The Meaning of Nutrition
After completing Unit 1 you ●●
Explain the scope of nutrition as an area of study.
will be able to:
What is nutrition? It can be explained by situations captured in photographs as well as by
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Explain the scope of nutrition words. This introduction presents a photographic tour of real-life situations that depict
as an area of study.
aspects of the study of nutrition.
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Demonstrate a working Before the tour begins, take a moment to make yourself comfortable and clear your
knowledge of the meaning of mind of clutter. Take a careful look at the photographs shown below and on the next
the 10 nutrition concepts. two pages, pausing to mentally describe in two or three sentences what each photograph
shows.
Not everyone who thinks about the photographs will describe them in the same way.
Reactions will vary somewhat due to personal experiences, interests, beliefs, and cultural
background. An individual trying to gain weight will probably react differently to the pho-
tograph of the person on the scale than someone who is trying to lose weight. The photo
of a dad measuring his son’s growth progress may bring back memories of the “measuring
wall” you knew as a child, and how you were encouraged to eat your vegetables to grow
up strong and tall. Depending on your experience and background, you may recognize
the photo of ham hocks, greens, and beans as your favorite holiday meal. The final photo,
showing a crowd of children and adults at a soup kitchen, may have reminded you that
food is essential for life.
Although knowledge about nutrition is generated by impersonal and objective
methods, it can be a very personal subject.
Nutrition Defined
nutrition The study of foods, their In a nutshell, nutrition is the study of foods and health. It is a science that focuses on foods,
nutrients and other chemical constituents, their nutrient and other chemical constituents, and the effects of food and food constituents
and the effects that foods and food on body processes and health. The scope of nutrition extends from food choices to the
constituents have on health.
effects of diet and specific food components on biological processes and health.
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Nutrition Is a “Melting Pot” Science The broad scope of nutrition makes it an
interdisciplinary science. Knowledge provided by the behavioral and social sciences, for
example, is needed in studies that examine how food preferences develop and how they
may be changed. Information generated by the biological, chemical, physical, and food
sciences is required to propose and explain diet and disease relationships. The knowl-
edge and skills of mathematicians and statisticians are needed to develop and imple-
ment appropriate research designs and analysis strategies that produce objective, reliable
research results. The study of nutrition will bring you into contact with information from
a variety of disciplines.
Nutrition Knowledge Is Applicable As you study the science of nutrition,
you will discover answers to a number of questions about your own diet, health, and
eating behaviors. Is obesity primarily due to eating habits, physical inactivity, the food
environment, or your genes? How do you know whether new information you hear about
nutrition is true? Can sugar harm more than your teeth? Can the right diet or supplement
give you a competitive edge? What is a healthful diet and how do you know if you have
one? If improvements seem warranted, what’s the best way to go about changing your
diet for the better? These are just a few of the questions that will be addressed during the
course of your study of nutrition. You will take from this learning experience not only
knowledge about nutrition and health, but also skills that will keep the information and
insights working to your advantage for a long time to come.
Foundation Knowledge for Thinking

about Nutrition
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Demonstrate a working knowledge of the meaning of the 10 nutrition
concepts.
food security Access at all times to a
You don’t have to be a bona fide nutritionist to think like one. What you need is a grasp
sufficient supply of safe, nutritious foods.
of the language and basic concepts of the science. The purpose of this unit is to give you
food insecurity Limited or uncertain
that background. The essential topics covered here are explored in greater depth in units
availability of safe, nutritious foods—or the
to come, and they build on this foundation of knowledge. With a working knowledge of ability to acquire them in socially accept-
nutrition terms and concepts, you will have an uncommonly good sense of nutrition. able ways.
NUTRITION CONCEPT # 1
Food is a basic need of humans.
Humans need enough food to live, and they need the right amount
and assortment of foods for optimal health. In the best of all worlds,
the need for food is combined with the condition of food security.
People who experience food security have access at all times to a suf-
ficient supply of the safe, nutritious foods that are needed for an active
and healthy life. They are able to acquire acceptable foods in socially
acceptable ways; they do not have to scavenge or steal food in order
to survive or to feed their families. It is important to note that food
security emphasizes access to an adequate supply of nutritious food
rather than simply sufficient food. Food insecurity exists whenever
the availability of safe, nutritious foods—or the ability to acquire them
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in socially acceptable ways—is limited or uncertain (Illustration 1.1).1

Adults who live in food-insecure households are more likely
to have poor-quality diets, to be obese, and to have hyperten-
sion, heart disease, or diabetes than adults who are poor but food Illustration 1.1 “It is possible to go an entire lifetime without knowing
secure.2 The ready availability of inexpensive, high-calorie foods; about people’s experiences with hunger.”
poverty; the absence of local supermarkets; limited opportunities —Meghan LeCates, Capital Area Food Bank
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for exercise; and lack of cooking facilities may be partly responsible for the higher rates of
obesity and chronic disease among food-insecure adults.3 Although many children living
in food-insecure households are nourished adequately, successful in school, and develop
high levels of social skills, as a group they are at higher risk of poor school performance
and social and behavioral problems.4
Food insecurity exists in 12.3% of U.S. and 7.7% of Canadian households.5,6 The rate in
the United States is over twice as high as the target of 6% established as a national health goal.7
Who Are the Food Insecure?

Although unemployment, disabilities, and homelessness contribute to food insecurity,
most food-insecure individuals live in households with one or more full-time worker.8
One in four of such households include an adult serving in the military.9 College
students are being increasingly recognized as a risk group for food insecurity. Over 120
U.S. colleges have established food pantries for students, and more are being developed
as you read this.10 Low wages and high food costs can limit the ability of households and
college students to afford sufficient, nutritious food.
Food Security and Stainable Diets Climate change is affecting worldwide food
security. Floods and drought precipitated by global warming can displace fertile farmlands
carbon footprint Generally defined as
and water supplies, and reduce crop yields and fish and seafood availability.11 Food pro-
the amount of the greenhouse gas carbon duction, in turn, affects climate change by contributing greenhouse gases that trap heat in
dioxide emitted by farming, food produc- the atmosphere.12 Fossil fuels, which are widely used in food production, processing, and
tion, a person’s activities, or a product’s transport, are the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.13
manufacture and transport. The extent of production of greenhouse gases is generally assessed by measuring the
sustainable agriculture Broadly amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as a result of food production and
defined as the use of farming methods, other processes. The result is referred to as the “carbon footprint.” In general, plant foods
environmental practices, and economic
policies that meet society’s present food
such as grains and vegetables leave a lower carbon footprint than dairy and meats.
needs without compromising the ability of The world’s history of famine due to crop failures, floods, drought, and epidemics of crop
future generations to meet their own needs. and livestock diseases has taught us the importance of using farming and environmental
calorie A unit of measure of the amount practices that support healthy crops, livestock, and people. Farming and environmental
of energy supplied by food. (Also known as methods that support nutritious food production and farm profitability, and protect the
a kilocalorie, abbreviated kcal, or the large environment are part and parcel of what is now called “sustainable agriculture.”14,15
Calorie with a capital C.)
nutrients Chemical substances in food
that are used by the body for growth and NUTRITION CONCEPT # 2
health. The six categories of nutrients are
carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, Foods provide energy (calories), nutrients, and other substances
minerals, and water.
needed for growth and health.
People eat foods for many different reasons. The most compelling reason
is that we need the calories, nutrients, and other substances supplied by
foods for growth and health.
Calories
A calorie is a unit of measure of the amount of energy in a food—and of
how much energy will be transferred to the person who eats it. Although
we often refer to the number of calories in this food or that one, calories
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are not a substance present in food. And, because calories are a unit of
measure, they do not qualify as a nutrient.
Nutrients
Nutrients are chemical substances present in food that are used by the
Illustration 1.2 Foods provide nutrients. “Please pass the
body to sustain growth and health (Illustration 1.2). Essentially every-
complex carbohydrates, thiamin, and niacin . . . I mean, the thing that’s in our body was once a component of the food we consumed.
bread!”
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There are six categories of nutrients (Table 1.1). Each category (except water) consists Table 1.1 The six categories
of a number of different substances that are used by the body for growth and health. The of nutrients
carbohydrate category includes simple sugars and complex carbohydrates (starches and 1. Carbohydrate
dietary fiber). The protein category includes 20 amino acids, the chemical units that serve
2. Protein
as the “building blocks” for proteins. Several different types of fat are included in the fat
category. Of primary concern are the saturated fats, unsaturated fats, essential fatty acids, 3. Fat
trans fats, and cholesterol. The vitamin category consists of 14 vitamins, and the mineral 4. Vitamins
category includes 15 minerals. Water makes up a nutrient category by itself.
Carbohydrates, proteins, and fats supply calories and are called the energy nutrients. 5. Minerals
Although each of these three types of nutrients performs a variety of functions, they share the 6. Water
property of being the body’s only sources of fuel. Vitamins, minerals, and water are chemi-
cals that the body needs for converting carbohydrates, proteins, and fats into energy and for
building and maintaining muscles, blood components, bones, and other tissues in the body.
Other Substances in Food

Food also contains many other substances, some of which are biologically active in the
body. One major type of such substances is the phytochemicals. There are thousands of phytochemicals Chemical substances
them in plants. Illustration 1.3 presents examples of plant foods that are particularly rich in plants (phyto 5 plant). Some phyto-
chemicals perform important functions in
sources of phytochemicals. Phytochemicals provide plants with color, give them flavor,
the human body. They give plants color
foster their growth, and protect them from insects and diseases. In humans, consump- and flavor, participate in processes that
tion of certain phytochemicals in diets is strongly related to a reduced risk of developing enable plants to grow, and protect plants
certain types of cancer, heart disease, infections, and other disorders.16 against insects and diseases. Also called
Specific phytochemicals have names that may be hard to pronounce and difficult to phytonutrients.
remember. Nevertheless, here are a few examples. Plant pigments, such as lycopene (like-
o-peen), which help make tomatoes red, anthocyanins (an-tho-sigh-an-ins), which give
blueberries their characteristic blue color, and beta-carotene (bay-tah-kar-o-teen), which
imparts an orange color to carrots, are phytochemicals that act as antioxidants. antioxidants Chemical substances that
They protect plant cells—and in some cases, human cells, too—from damage that prevent or repair damage to cells caused
by exposure to oxidizing agents such as
can make them susceptible to disease. Various types of sulfur-containing phytochemicals
environmental pollutants, smoke, ozone,
are present in cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, and other vegetables of the and oxygen. Oxidation reactions are a
same family. These substances help prevent a number of different types of cancer in people normal part of cellular processes.
with specific gene types.17
Some Nutrients Must Be Provided by the Diet Many nutrients are required for
growth and health. The body can manufacture some of these from raw materials sup-
plied by food, but others must come assembled. Nutrients that the body cannot generally
produce, or cannot produce in sufficient quantity, are referred to as essential nutrients. essential nutrients Nutrients required
Here essential means “required in the diet.” Vitamin A, iron, and calcium are examples of for normal growth and health that the body
can generally not produce, or produce in
essential nutrients. Table 1.2 lists all the known essential nutrients.
sufficient amounts. Essential nutrients must
Nutrients used for growth and health that can be manufactured by the body from be obtained in the diet.
components of food in our diet are considered nonessential. Cholesterol, creatine, and
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Table 1.2 Essential nutrients for humans: A reference table
Energy Nutrients Vitamins Minerals Water

Carbohydrates Biotin Calcium Water
Fats a
Folate Chloride
Proteinsb Niacin (B3) Chromium
Pantothenic acid Copper
Riboflavin (B2) Fluoride
Thiamin (B1) Iodine
Vitamin A Iron
Vitamin B6 (pyroxidine) Magnesium
Vitamin B12 Manganese
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) Molybdenum
Vitamin D Phosphorus
Vitamin E Potassium
Vitamin K Selenium
Choline c
Sodium
Zinc
a
Fats supply the essential nutrients linoleic and alpha-linolenic acids.
b
Proteins are the source of nine “essential amino acids”: histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine. The other 11 amino
acids are not a required part of our diet; they are considered “nonessential.”
c
A dietary source of choline, a vitamin-like nutrient, may not be required during all stages of the life cycle.
nonessential nutrients Nutrients glucose are examples of nonessential nutrients. Nonessential nutrients are present in
required for normal growth and health that food and used by the body, but they are not required parts of our diet because we can
the body can manufacture in sufficient produce them ourselves.
quantities from other components of the
Both essential and nonessential nutrients are required for growth and health. The
diet. We do not require a dietary source of
nonessential nutrients. difference between them is whether or not we need to obtain the nutrient from a dietary
source. A dietary deficiency of an essential nutrient will cause a specific deficiency disease,
but a dietary lack of a nonessential nutrient will not. People develop scurvy (the vitamin C–
deficiency disease), for example, if they do not consume enough vitamin C. But you could
have zero cholesterol in your diet and not become “cholesterol deficient,” because your
liver produces cholesterol.
Our Requirements for Essential Nutrients The amount of essential nutrients
humans need each day varies a great deal, from amounts measured in cups to micro-
grams. (See Table 1.3 to get a notion of the amount represented by a gram, milligram, and
other measure.) Generally speaking, adults need 11 to 15 cups of water from fluids and
foods, 9 tablespoons of protein, one-fourth teaspoon of calcium, and only one-thousandth
teaspoon (a 30-microgram speck) of vitamin B12 each day.
We all need the same nutrients, but not always in the same amounts. The amounts
needed vary among people based on:
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Age
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Sex
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Growth status
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Body size
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Genetic traits
and the presence of conditions such as:
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Pregnancy
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Breastfeeding
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Table 1.3 Units of measure commonly employed in nutrition
Measure Abbreviation Equivalents
Kilogram kg 1 kg 5 2.2 lb 5 1,000 grams
Pound lb 1 lb 5 16 oz 5 454 grams 5 2 cups (liquid)
Ounce oz 1 oz 5 28 grams 5 2 tablespoons (liquid)
Gram g 1 g 5 1/28 oz 5 1,000 milligrams
Milligram mg 1 mg 5 1/28,000 oz 5 1,000 micrograms
Microgram mcg, µg 1 mcg 5 1/28,000,000 oz
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1 egg 5 50 grams or 13/4 oz; 212 milli- 1 slice of bread 5 1 nickel 5 5 grams
grams (0.2 grams) of cholesterol in yolk 1 oz 5 28 grams
1 teaspoon of sugar 5 4 grams,
1 grain of sugar 5 200 micrograms
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Illnesses
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Drug/medication use
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Exposure to environmental contaminants
Each of these factors, and others, can influence nutrient requirements. General diet
recommendations usually make allowances for major factors that influence the level of
nutrient need, but they cannot allow for all of the factors.
Nutrient Intake Standards Recommendations for daily levels of nutrient intake were
first developed in the United States in 1943 and have been updated periodically since then.
Called the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs), these standards were established in
Judith Brown
response to the high rejection rate of World War II recruits, many of whom were under-
weight and had nutrient deficiencies. The recommended levels of nutrient intake provided
are based on age, gender, and condition (pregnant or breastfeeding). Because the science Illustration 1.4 The latest DRI report
underlying nutrient intake and health advances with time, these standards are periodically (2010) on calcium and vitamin D.
revised and expanded (Illustration 1.4).
Table 1.4 Examples of primary
Dietary Reference Intakes Nutrient intake standards now in place are referred to endpoints used to estimate DRIs
as Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs); they include categories of nutrient intake in addition
to the RDAs. The current RDAs referenced in the DRIs reflect nutrient intake levels that Carbohydrate: Amount needed to
protect almost all healthy individuals from developing deficiency disease and that also supply optimal levels of energy to
the brain.
reduce the risk of common chronic diseases. Table 1.4 provides examples of endpoints
aimed at chronic disease prevention used by the DRI Committee to determine the RDAs. Total Fiber: Amount shown to pro-
vide the greatest protection against
A category labeled Adequate Intakes (AIs) has been added to indicate “tentative RDAs” for
heart disease.
a few nutrients such as vitamin K and fluoride, for which too few reliable scientific studies
have been done to establish an RDA. Folate: Amount that maintains normal
red blood cell folate concentration.
The DRI standards include a category called Estimated Average Requirement (EAR).
This category represents nutrient intake levels that are estimated to meet the nutrient Iodine: Amount that corresponds to
intake requirements of 50% of individuals within an age, sex, and condition (pregnant or optimal functioning of the thyroid
gland.
breastfeeding) group.
DRI standards consider the effects of excessively high intake of nutrients, primarily Selenium: Amount that maximizes
its function in protecting cells from
from supplements and fortified foods, on health. These standards are labeled Tolerable
damage.
Upper Intake Levels, abbreviated ULs for “upper levels.” Table 1.5 graphically displays the
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Table 1.5 Terms and abbreviations used in the DRIs and a graphic representation
of their meaning
Estimated Average Requirement (EAR)
Recommended Dietary
Risk of overdose reactions

100% 100%
Risk of dietary deficiency

Allowance (RDA)
50% 50%
Adequate Intake (AI)
Tolerable Upper
Intake Level (UL)
Nutrient intake
Low High
●● Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs). This is the general term used for nutrient intake
standards for healthy people.
●● Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs). These are levels of essential nutrient
intake judged to be adequate to meet the known nutrient needs of practically all healthy
persons while decreasing the risk of certain chronic diseases.
●● Adequate Intakes (AIs). These are “tentative” RDAs. AIs are based on less conclusive
scientific information than are the RDAs.
●● Estimated Average Requirements (EARs). These are nutrient intake values that are
estimated to meet the requirements of half the healthy individuals in a group. The EARs
are used to assess adequacy of intakes of population groups.
●● Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (ULs). These are upper limits of nutrient intake
compatible with health. The ULs do not reflect desired levels of intake. Rather, they
represent total daily levels of nutrient intake from food, fortified foods, and supplements
that should not normally be exceeded.
relationships between nutrient intake level and the various categories of the
DRI standards now in use, and presents definitions of the DRI nutrient intake
categories.
Developed by nutrition scientists from the United States and Canada,
the RDAs apply to 97 to 98% of all healthy people in both countries.
The fundamental premise of the first RDAs—that nutrient intake should
come primarily from foods—is maintained in the current nutrient intake
standards.
DRI tables are located at the back of this text. Check out these tables. They
can be used to identify recommended daily levels of essential nutrient intake
and levels of intake that should not normally be exceeded.
NUTRITION CONCEPT #3
Health problems related to nutrition originate within cells.

Cells are the main employers of nutrients (Illustration 1.5). All body
Illustration 1.5 Schematic representation of the processes required for growth and health take place within cells and the fluid
structure of a human cell. that surrounds them. Humans contain over 100 trillion cells in body tissues
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(and around 100 times more than that number if bacteria and other microorganisms
in the large intestine are included).18 The functions of each cell are maintained by the
nutrients it receives. Problems begin when a cell’s need for nutrients differs from the
available supply.19
Nutrient Functions at the Cellular Level Cells are the building blocks of tissues
(such as muscles and bones), organs (such as the kidneys, heart, and liver), and systems
(such as the respiratory, reproductive, circulatory, and nervous systems). Normal cell
health and functioning are maintained when a nutritional and environmental utopia
exists within and around the cells. Such circumstances allow metabolism—the chemical metabolism The chemical changes that
changes that take place within and outside of cells—to proceed flawlessly. Disruptions take place in the body. The formation of
energy from carbohydrates is an example
in the availability of nutrients—or the presence of harmful substances in the cell’s
of a metabolic process.
environment—initiate diseases and disorders that eventually affect tissues, organs,
and systems. Here are two examples of how cell functions can be disrupted by the
presence of low or high concentrations of nutrients:
1. Folate, a B vitamin, is required for protein synthesis within cells. When too little folate
is available, cells produce proteins with abnormal shapes and functions. Abnormali-
ties in the shape of red blood cell proteins, for example, lead to functional changes
that produce loss of appetite, weakness, and irritability.20
2. When too much iron is present in cells, the excess reacts with and damages cell
components. If cellular levels of iron remain high, the damage spreads, impairing the
functions of organs such as the liver, pancreas, and heart.21
Health problems in general begin with disruptions in the normal activity of cells.
Humans are as healthy as their cells.
Poor nutrition can result from both inadequate and excessive levels of
nutrient intake.
For each nutrient, every individual has a range of optimal intake that produces the best
level for cell and body functions. On either side of the optimal range are levels of intake
associated with impaired body functions.22 This concept is presented in Illustration 1.6.
Inadequate essential nutrient intake, if prolonged, results in obvious deficiency diseases.
Marginally deficient nutrient intake generally produces subtle changes in behavior or physi-
cal condition. If the optimal intake range is exceeded, mild to severe changes in mental
and physical functions occur, depending on the amount of the excess and the nutrient.
Severe zinc deficiency, for example, is related to diarrhea, respiratory infection, and stunted
growth. Mild zinc deficiency causes disturbances in the sense of taste and smell, and reduces
appetite and food intake. Excessive intake of zinc is associated with vomiting and
a decline in the body’s ability to fight infections.23 Nearly all cases of vitamin and
mineral overdose result from excessive use of supplements or errors made in the 100%
level of nutrient fortification of food products. They are almost never caused by
Nutrient Function
foods. For nutrients, “enough is as good as a feast.”

Steps in the Development of Nutrient Deficiencies and
Toxicities Poor nutrition due to inadequate diet generally develops in the
stages outlined in Illustration 1.7. To help explain the stages, this illustration
includes an example of how vitamin A deficiency develops.
After a period of deficient intake of an essential nutrient, the body’s tissue 0%
Death Deficiency Marginal Optimal Marginal Toxicity Death
reserves of the nutrient become depleted. Blood levels of the nutrient then
decrease because there are no reserves left to replenish the blood supply. With- Increasing concentration or intake of nutrient
out an adequate supply of the nutrient in the blood, cells get shortchanged. Illustration 1.6 For every nutrient, there is a range of
They no longer have the supply of nutrients needed to maintain normal optimal intake that corresponds to the optimal functioning
function. If the dietary deficiency is prolonged, the malfunctioning cells cause of that nutrient in the body.
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Illustration 1.7 The
usual sequence of events Depletion of Decreased blood Decreased
Inadequate
tissue stores of levels of nutrient available
in the development of a dietary intake
the nutrient the nutrient to cells
nutrient deficiency and an
example of how vitamin A
EXAMPLE: EXAMPLE: EXAMPLE: EXAMPLE: Decreased
deficiency develops.24,25
Deficient Reduced liver stores Reduced blood levels vitamin A available
vitamin A intake of vitamin A of vitamin A to cells within eye
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Long-term Physical signs
Impaired cellular
impairment and symptoms
functions
of health of deficiency
EXAMPLE: EXAMPLE: Outer EXAMPLE

Outer covering covering of the eyes Impaired ability to
of the eyes dries dries out, thickens, see in dim light
out and thickens; and becomes
vision is lost susceptible to infection
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sufficient impairment to produce physically obvious signs of a deficiency disease. Eventu-

ally, some of the problems produced by the deficiency may no longer be repairable, and
permanent changes in health and function may occur. In most cases, the problems result-
ing from the deficiency can be reversed if the nutrient is supplied before this final stage
occurs.
Excessively high intake of many nutrients such as vitamin A and selenium produces
toxicity diseases. The vitamin A toxicity disease is called hypervitaminosis A, and the
disease for selenium toxicity is called selenosis. Signs of the toxicity disease stem from
increased levels of the nutrient in the blood
and subsequent oversupply of the nutrient to
the cells. The high nutrient load upsets the
balance needed for normal cell function. The
changes in cell functions lead to the signs and
symptoms of the toxicity disease.
For both deficiency and toxicity diseases,
the best time to correct the problem is usually
at the level of dietary intake, before tissue
stores are adversely affected. In that case, no
harmful effects on health and cell function
occur—they are prevented.26
Nutrient Deficiencies Are Often
Multiple Most foods contain many nutri-
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ents, so poor diets will affect the intake level

of more than one nutrient (Illustration 1.8).
Inadequate diets generally produce a spectrum
of signs and symptoms related to multiple
nutrient deficiencies. For example, protein,
Illustration 1.8 This woman has iron deficiency anemia. Chances are good that she has
poor status of other nutrients in addition to iron.
vitamin B12, iron, and zinc are packaged
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together in many high-protein foods. The protein-deficient, starving children you may see
in news reports are rarely deficient just in protein. They may also be deficient in iron, zinc,
and vitamin B12.
The “Ripple Effect” Dietary changes affect the level of intake of many nutrients.
Switching from a high-fat to a low-fat diet, for instance, may result in a higher intake of
protein, carbohydrate, or both; a higher intake of cholesterol and vitamin E; and increased
intake of vitamin A, vitamin C, and iron. So dietary changes introduced for the purpose of
improving the intake level of a particular nutrient produce a ripple effect on the intake of
other nutrients.
Humans have adaptive mechanisms for managing fluctuations

in nutrient intake.
Healthy humans are equipped with a number of adaptive mechanisms that partially
protect the body from poor health due to fluctuations in dietary intake. In the context of
nutrition, adaptive mechanisms act to conserve nutrients when dietary supply is low and
to eliminate them when they are present in excessively high amounts. Dietary surpluses of
energy and some nutrients—such as vitamin A and vitamin B12—can be stored within tis-
sues for later use. In the case of iron, copper, and calcium, the body regulates the amounts
absorbed in response to its need for them. The body is unable to store excess amino acids
for very long. It uses excess amino acids consumed primarily as a source of energy.27
Here are some other examples of how the body adapts to changes in dietary intake:
●●
When calorie intake is reduced by fasting, starvation, or dieting, the body adapts to the
decreased supply by lowering energy expenditure. Declines in body temperature and
the capacity to do physical work also act to decrease the body’s need for calories. When
caloric intake exceeds the body’s need for energy, the excess is stored as fat for energy
needs in the future.
●●
The ability of the gastrointestinal tract to absorb dietary iron increases when the body’s
stores of iron are low. To help protect the body from iron overdose, the mechanisms that
facilitate iron absorption in times of need shut down when enough iron has been stored.
●●
The body can protect itself from excessively high levels of intake of vitamin C from
supplements by excreting the excess in the urine.
Although these built-in mechanisms do not protect humans from all the consequences
of poor diets, they do provide an important buffer against the development of nutrient-
related health problems.
Malnutrition can result from poor diets and from disease states, genetic
factors, or combinations of these factors.
Malnutrition means poor nutrition; it results from both inadequate and excessive malnutrition Poor nutrition resulting
availability of calories and nutrients in the body. Vitamin A toxicity, obesity, vitamin C from an excess or lack of calories or
nutrients.
deficiency (scurvy), and underweight are examples of malnutrition.
Malnutrition can result from poor diets and also from diseases that interfere with
the body’s ability to use the nutrients consumed. Diarrhea, alcoholism, cancer, bleeding
ulcers, and HIV/AIDS, for example, may be primarily responsible for the development of
malnutrition in people with these disorders.
In addition, a percentage of the population is susceptible to malnutrition and
increased disease risk due to genetic factors. For example, people may be born with a
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genetic tendency to produce excessive amounts of cholesterol, absorb high
levels of iron, or use folate poorly. Some cases of obesity, diabetes, heart disease,
and cancer are related to a combination of genetic and dietary factors.28
Some groups of people are at higher risk of becoming

inadequately nourished than others.
Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, infants, growing children, the
frail elderly, the ill, and those recovering from illness have a greater need for
nutrients than other people. As a result, they are at higher risk than other
people of becoming inadequately nourished (Illustration 1.9). The fetus during
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pregnancy and infants are developing rapidly and are particularly vulnerable
to the adverse affects of poor nutrition. Poor nutrition experienced early in
life can induce changes in gene function that adversely affect health status for
a lifetime.29 In cases of widespread food shortages, such as those induced by
natural disasters or war, the health of these nutritionally vulnerable groups is
compromised the soonest and the most.
Within the nutritionally vulnerable groups, certain people and families are
at particularly high risk of malnutrition. These are people and families who are
poor and least able to secure food, shelter, and high-quality medical services.
Illustration 1.9 Women who are pregnant or breast- The risk of malnutrition is not shared equally among all persons within a
feeding and infants are among the people who are at a population.
higher risk of becoming inadequately nourished.
Poor nutrition can influence the development of certain chronic

chronic diseases Slow-developing, and other diseases.
long-lasting diseases that are not con-
tagious (e.g., heart disease, diabetes, Poor nutrition does not result only in nutrient deficiency or toxicity diseases. Faulty diets
and cancer). They can be treated but not play important roles in the development of chronic diseases such as hypertension, heart
always cured.
disease, cancer, and osteoporosis. Diets high in salt, for example, are related to the devel-
dietary pattern The quantities, propor- opment of hypertension; those low in vegetables and fruit to cancer; low-calcium diets
tions, variety, or combination of different
foods, drinks, and nutrients in diets, and
and poor vitamin D status to osteoporosis; and high-sugar diets to tooth decay. The harm-
the frequency with which they are habitually ful effects of poor dietary practices on chronic disease development generally accumulate
consumed. over the course of years.30
Adequacy, variety, and balance are key characteristics of healthy

dietary patterns.
Healthy diets correspond to a dietary pattern associated with normal growth and
development, a healthy body weight, health maintenance, and disease prevention. One
such pattern is represented by the USDA’s ChooseMyPlate food group intake guide
ChooseMyPlate.gov/USDA
(Illustration 1.10). Several other types of dietary patterns, including the Mediterranean-
style dietary pattern and the DASH Eating Plan, have also been found to promote health
and foster disease prevention.15 Healthy dietary patterns are characterized by regular
consumption of moderate portions of a variety of foods from each of the basic food
groups. No specific foods or food preparation techniques are excluded in a healthy
Illustration 1.10 ChooseMyPlate is the
dietary pattern.
icon for the USDA’s food guidance system.
It is intended to visually help people choose Healthy dietary patterns are plant-food based and include the regular consumption of
healthy meals. vegetables, fruits, dried beans, fish and seafood, low-fat dairy products, poultry and lean
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Illustration 1.11 Calorie and nutrient content of an empty-calorie and
Percent contribution to a nutrient-dense food. Percentages given represent percent contributions
adult female RDAs to adult female RDAs.
Cola
soft drink, Skim milk,
1 cup 1 cup
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
Calories
Protein
Vitamin A
Vitamin C
Thiamin (B1)
Riboflavin (B2)
Niacin (B3)
Calcium
Iron
meats, nuts and seeds, and whole grains. Dietary patterns that include large or frequent
servings of foods containing high amounts of trans fat, added sugars, salt, or alcohol
miss the healthy dietary pattern mark. Healthy dietary patterns supply needed nutrients
and beneficial phytochemicals through food rather than supplements or special dietary
products.31
Energy and Nutrient Density Most Americans consume more calories than needed,
become overweight as a result, and consume inadequate diets. This situation is partly due
to over-consumption of energy-dense foods such as processed and high-fat meats, chips, energy-dense foods Foods that provide
candy, many desserts, and full-fat dairy products. Energy-dense foods have relatively high relatively high levels of calories per unit
calorie values per unit weight of the food. Intake of energy-dense diets is related to the weight of the food. Fried chicken; cheese-
burgers; a biscuit, egg, and sausage
consumption of excess calories and to the development of overweight and diabetes.32 sandwich; and potato chips are energy-
Many energy-dense foods are nutrient poor, meaning they contain low levels of nutri- dense foods.
ents given their caloric value. These foods are sometimes referred to as empty-calorie empty-calorie foods Foods that pro-
foods; these include products such as soft drinks, sherbet, hard candy, alcohol, and cheese vide an excess of energy or calories in rela-
twists. Excess intake of energy-dense and empty-calorie foods increases the likelihood tion to nutrients. Soft drinks, candy, sugar,
that calorie needs will be met or exceeded before nutrients needs are met.33 Diets most alcohol, and animal fats are considered
likely to meet nutrient requirements without exceeding calorie needs contain primarily empty-calorie foods.
nutrient-dense foods, foods with high levels of nutrients and relatively low calorie value. nutrient-dense foods Foods that
Nutrient-dense foods such as non-fat milk and yogurt, lean meat, dried beans, vegetables, contain relatively high amounts of nutrients
compared to their calorie value. Broccoli,
and fruits provide relatively high amounts of nutrients compared to their calorie value.32 collards, bread, cantaloupe, and lean
Illustration 1.11 shows a comparison of the calorie and nutrient content of an empty- meats are examples of nutrient-dense
calorie and a nutrient-dense food. foods.
There are no “good” or “bad” foods.

People tend to classify foods as being “good” or “bad,” but such opinions over-simplify
each food’s potential contribution to a diet.31 Typically hot dogs, ice cream, candy, bacon,
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and french fries are judged to be “bad,” whereas vegetables, fruits, and whole-grain
products are given the “good” stamp. Unless we’re talking about spoiled stew, poison
mushrooms, or something similar, however, no food can be firmly labeled as “good” or
“bad.” Ice cream can be a “good” food for physically active, normal-weight individu-
als with a high calorie need who have otherwise met their nutrient requirements by
consuming nutrient-dense foods. Some people who eat only what they consider to be
“good” foods such as broccoli, berries, brown rice, and tofu may still miss the healthful
diet mark due to inadequate consumption of essential fatty acids and certain vitamins
and minerals.
All foods can fit into a healthy dietary pattern as long as nutrient needs are met at
calorie intake levels that maintain a healthy body weight.31 If nutrient needs are not being
met and calorie intake levels are too high, then the diet likely includes too many energy-
dense or empty-calorie foods. Substituting nutrient-dense for energy-dense foods would
help bring the diet back into balance.
The basic nutrition concepts presented here are listed in Table 1.6. It may help you
remember the concepts and to start thinking like a bona fide nutritionist if you go back
over each concept and give several examples related to it. If you understand these con-
cepts, you will have gained a good deal of insight into nutrition.
Table 1.6 Nutrition concepts

1. Food is a basic need of humans.
2. Foods provide energy (calories), nutrients, and other substances needed for growth
and health.
3. Health problems related to nutrition originate within cells.
4. Poor nutrition can result from both inadequate and excessive levels of nutrient intake.
5. Humans have adaptive mechanisms for managing fluctuations in nutrient intake.
6. Malnutrition can result from poor diets and from disease states, genetic factors, or
combinations of these factors.
7. Some groups of people are at higher risk of becoming inadequately nourished than
others.
8. Poor nutrition can influence the development of certain chronic and other diseases.
9. Adequacy, variety, and balance are key characteristics of healthy dietary patterns.
10. There are no “good” or “bad” foods.
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NUTRITION
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Nutrition Concepts Review
Images/Corbis
Focal Point: Nutrition concepts apply to diet and Write the number of the nutrition concept from Table 1.6 that most
health relationships. closely applies to the situation described. Use each concept and do not
repeat concept numbers in your response.
Nutrition concept number Situation

1. ____ The Irish potato famine caused thousands of deaths.
2. ____and ____ Otis mistakenly thought that as long as he consumed enough calories from food along with
vitamin and mineral supplements, he would stay healthy no matter what he ate.
3. ____ I feel guilty every time I eat potato chips. I wish they weren’t bad for me.
4. ____ Phyllis was relieved to learn that her chronic diarrhea was due to the high level of vitamin C
supplements she had been taking.
5. ____ A low amount of iron in Tawana’s red blood cells was the reason for her loss of appetite and
low energy level.
6. ____ Far more young children than soldiers died as a result of the 10-year civil war in Sudan.
7. ____ For the past 20 years, Don’s idea of dinner was a big steak and potatoes. His recent heart
attack changed his view of what’s for dinner.
8. ____ During the two weeks they were backpacking in the Netherlands, Tomás and Ozzie ate very
few vegetables and fruits. Their health remained robust, however.
9. ____ Zhang wasn’t aware that he had the inherited condition hemochromatosis until he began tak-
ing iron supplements and developed iron overload symptoms.
Feedback on Nutrition Up Close is located in Appendix F.
REVIEW QUESTIONS
●● Explain the scope of nutrition as an area of study. 4. Food insecurity is a problem in developing countries,
but it is not a problem in the United States or Canada.
1. Nutrition is defined as “the study of foods, their nutrients
True/False
and other chemical constituents, and the effects that food
constituents have on health.” True/False 5. Nutrients are classified into five basic groups:
carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins, and
2. ____ Cassandra is on her way to her first nutrition class
water. True/False
and is thinking about what the course will cover. Listed
below are her ideas. Three of the ideas correspond to the 6. The development of standards for nutrient intake lev-
scope of the study of nutrition. Which idea is not a compo- els was prompted in part by the high rejection rate of
nent of the scope of the study of nutrition? World War II recruits due to underweight and nutrient
deficiencies. True/False
a. diet and disease relationships
b. components of healthful diets 7. Tissue stores of nutrients decline after blood levels of the
c. magical powers of super foods for weight loss nutrients decline. True/False
d. nutrient composition of foods 8. To maintain health, all essential nutrients must be
●● Demonstrate a working knowledge of the meaning consumed at the recommended level daily.
True/False
of the 10 nutrition concepts.
9. An individual’s genetic traits play a role in how nutrient
3. The word nonessential as in nonessential nutrient means intake affects disease risk. True/False
that the nutrient is not required for growth and health.
True/False
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10. ____ If you wanted to know the Recommended Dietary to oxidizing agents such as
Allowance for protein for a 7-month-old infant, you would environmental pollutants,
refer to tables on the: smoke, ozone, and oxygen.
a. Dietary Guidelines for Americans ____16. Food insecurity c. Foods that contain relatively
b. Infant Nutritional Recommendations for Americans high amounts of nutrients
c. Recommended Daily Intakes in relation to their calorie
d. Recommended Dietary Allowances value.
11. ____ The Tolerable Upper Intake Level for iron for a ____17. Antioxidants d. The chemical changes that
65-year-old male in milligrams per day (mg/d) is: take place in the body.
a. 1,100 ____18. Calorie e. Limited or uncertain avail-
b. 45 ability of safe, nutritious
c. 350 foods—or the ability to
d. 3.5 acquire them in socially
12. Certain phytochemicals, or________, such as lycopene acceptable ways.
and anthocyanins, act as ____________. ____19. Metabolism f. A unit of measure of the
13. Groups of people at higher risk than others of becoming amount of energy supplied
inadequately nourished include _______ and ________. by food.
For the questions below, match the term in column A with its ____20. Malnutrition g. Nutrients required for
definition in column B. normal growth and health
Column A Column B that the body can generally
not produce, or produce in
____14. Essential nutrients a. Chemical substances in food
sufficient amounts.
that are used by the body for
growth and health. ____21. Nutrient dense h. Poor nutrition resulting from
an excess or lack of calories
____15. Nutrients b. Chemical substances that
or nutrients.
prevent or repair damage
to cells caused by exposure Answers to these questions can be found in Appendix F.
NUTRITION SCOREBOARD ANSWERS

1. Calories are a measure of the amount of energy supplied by 3. Excessive as well as inadequate intake levels of vitamins
food. They’re a property of food, not a substance present in and minerals can be harmful to health. False
food. False 4. The DRIs are located at the back of this text. True
2. That’s the definition of nutrients. True
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The Inside NUTRITION SCOREBOARD
UNIT
2
1 How long people live and how healthy they are
primarily depends on four factors: lifestyle behaviors,
Story about the environments to which they are exposed, genetic

factors, and access to quality health care. True/False
2 Diet is related to the top two causes of death in the United
Nutrition and States. True/False

3 Biological processes of modern humans were designed
over 40,000 years ago. True/False
Health 4 Most economically developed countries regularly monitor

levels of various contaminants and nutrients in foods and
diets, but the United States does not. True/False
Answers can be found at the end of the unit.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES Nutrition in the Context
After completing Unit 2 you
will be able to: of Overall Health
●●
Identify characteristics ●●
Identify characteristics of diets related to the development of specific
of diets related to the diseases.
development of specific
diseases.
Think of your body as a machine. How well this machine performs depends on a number
of related factors: the quality of its design and construction, the appropriateness of the
●●
Explain how differences in materials used to produce it, and how well it is maintained.
diets of early versus modern A machine designed to produce 10,000 copies a day will break down sooner if it is
humans may promote the used to make 20,000 copies a day. The repair call will, in all probability, come earlier if the
development of certain
machine is overused and poorly maintained or if it has a part that doesn’t work well. On
diseases.
the other hand, chances are good the copy machine will function at full capacity if it is free
●●
List the types of food that are from design flaws, skillfully constructed from appropriate materials, properly used, and
core components of healthful kept in good shape through regular maintenance.
diets. Although much more complex and sophisticated, the human body is like a machine
in some important ways. How well the body works and how long it lasts depend on a vari-
ety of interrelated factors. The health and fitness of the human machine depend on genetic
traits (the design part of the machine), the quality of the materials used in its construction
(your diet), and regular maintenance (your diet, other lifestyle factors, and health care).
Lifestyles exert the strongest overall influence on health and longevity (Illustration 2.1).2
Behaviors that constitute our lifestyle—such as diet, smoking habits, illicit drug use or
excessive drinking, level of physical activity or psychological stress, and the amount of
sleep we get—largely determine whether we are promoting health or disease. Of the
lifestyle factors that affect health, our diet is one of the most important.3 In a sense, it is
fortunate that diet is related to disease development and prevention. Unlike age, gender,
and genetic makeup, our diets are within our control.
People have an intimate relationship with food—each year we put over a thousand
pounds of it into our bodies! Food supplies the raw materials the body needs for growth
and health; these, in turn, are affected by the types of food we usually eat. The diet we
feed the human machine can hasten, delay, or prevent the onset of an impressive group of
today’s most common health problems.
KEY NUTRITION CONCEPTS
Unit 1 presents 10 key nutrition concepts that are fundamental to the science of nutrition. The
content on diet and health covered in this unit directly relates to three of them:
1. Nutrition Concept #3: Health problems related to nutrition originate within cells.
Illustration 2.1 Conditions that contrib-

Health Environmental Genetic
ute to death among adults under the age of
care exposures Lifestyles makeup
75 in the United States. Health care refers
to access to quality care; environmental
exposures include the safety of one’s
surroundings and the presence of toxins
and disease-causing organisms in the
environment; lifestyle factors include diet,
exercise, obesity, smoking, genetic traits,
and alcohol and drug use.3,4
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Illustration 2.2 Vitamin D deficiency
(rickets shown on the left) and niacin defi-
ciency (pellagra pictured on the right) were
leading causes of hospitalization of children
in the United States in the 1930s.
BioPhoto Associates/Photoresearchers, Inc.

Biophoto Associates/Science Source
chronic diseases Slow-developing,

long-lasting diseases that are not conta-
gious (e.g., heart disease, cancer, diabetes).
(a) (b) They can be treated but not always cured.
diabetes Short for the term diabetes
mellitus, a disease characterized by
abnormal utilization of glucose by the body
2. Nutrition Concept #6: Malnutrition can result from poor diets and from disease states,
and elevated blood glucose levels. There
genetic factors, or combinations of these factors. are three main types of diabetes: type 1,
type 2, and gestational diabetes. The
3. Nutrition Concept #8: Poor nutrition can influence the development of certain chronic
word diabetes in this text refers to type 2
diseases. diabetes, by far the most common.
hypertension High blood pressure. It is
defined as blood pressure exerted inside
The Nutritional State of the Nation of blood vessel walls that typically exceeds
Since early in the twentieth century, researchers have known that what we eat is related to 140/90 mm Hg (millimeters of mercury).
the development of vitamin and mineral deficiency diseases, to compromised growth and
impaired mental development in children, and to the body’s ability
to fight infectious diseases. Seventy years ago in the United States,
% of total deaths
widespread vitamin deficiency diseases filled children’s hospital
wards and contributed to serious illness and death in adults Heart diseases
(Illustration 2.2). Now, however, dietary excesses are filling hospital Cancers
beds and reducing the quality of life for millions of Americans. Chronic obstructive
Today, the major causes of death among Americans and in Lung diseasea
other developed countries are slow-developing, lifestyle-related Strokes
chronic diseases.6 Based on government survey data, 44% of Accidents
Americans have a chronic condition such as diabetes, heart
Alzheimer’s disease
disease, cancer, hypertension, or high cholesterol levels; 13%
have three or more of these conditions.7 Diabetes
The leading causes of death among Americans are heart dis- Pneumonia
and influenza
ease and cancer (see Illustration 2.3). Together they account for Kidney disease
47% of all deaths. Western-type dietary patterns that are gener-
Suicide
ally low in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, dried beans, poultry,
nuts, and fish and relatively high in meat, refined grains, sugars, 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
calories, and salt are linked to the development of a number of
a
chronic diseases.8 People who consume Western-type diets are at Principally includes bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma.
higher risk of developing obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease,

and hypertension.3,9 Examples of diseases and disorders associ- Illustration 2.3 Percentage of total deaths for the top 10 leading causes
of death in the United States, 2015.5
ated with dietary intake are shown in Table 2.1. Source: NCHS Data Brief No. 267, December 2016.
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Table 2.1 Examples of diseases and disorders linked to diet8–14
Disease or disorder Dietary connections
Heart disease Excessive body fat, high intake of trans fat, added sugar, and salt; low vegetable, fruit, fish, nuts, and
whole-grain intake
Cancer Low vegetable and fruit intake; excessive body fat and alcohol intake; regular consumption of processed meats
Stroke Low vegetable and fruit intake; excessive alcohol intake; high animal-fat diets
Diabetes (type 2) Excessive body fat; low vegetable, whole grain, and fruit intake; high added sugar intake
Cirrhosis of the liver Excessive alcohol consumption; poor overall diet
Hypertension Excessive sodium (salt) and low potassium intake; excess alcohol intake; low vegetable and fruit intake;
excessive levels of body fat
Iron-deficiency anemia Low iron intake
Tooth decay and gum Excessive and frequent sugar consumption; inadequate fluoride intake
disease
Osteoporosis Inadequate calcium and vitamin D; low intake of vegetables and fruits
Obesity Excessive calorie intake; overconsumption of energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods
Chronic inflammation Excessive calorie intake; excessive body fat; high animal-fat diets; low intake of whole grains, vegetables, fruit,
and oxidative stress and fish
Alzheimer’s disease Regular intake of high animal-fat products; low intake of olive oil, vegetables, fruits, fish, wine, and whole grains
chronic inflammation Low-grade inflam- Shared Dietary Risk Factors A number of the diseases and disorders listed in
mation that lasts weeks, months, or years. In- Table 2.1 share the common risk factors of low intake of vegetables, fruits, and whole grains;
flammation is the first response of the body’s excess body fat and alcohol intake; and high animal-fat intake. These risk factors are associ-
immune system to infectious agents, toxins, ated with the development of chronic inflammation and oxidative stress, conditions that
or irritants. It triggers the release of biologically
active substances that promote oxidation and
are strongly related to the development of heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s
other reactions to counteract the infection, disease, cancer, and other chronic diseases.15
toxin, or irritant. A side effect of chronic inflam-
mation is that it may also damage lipids, cells,
Inflammation and Oxidative Stress Inflammation is an important part of the
tissues, and certain body processes. Also body’s defense systems against cell and tissue damage due to the presence of infectious
called low-grade inflammation. agents, chemical irritants, toxins, or physical injury. It can be classified as acute or chronic.
oxidative stress A condition that occurs Most of us are familiar with acute inflammation. That’s a temporary reaction that occurs
when cells are exposed to more oxidiz- when you sprain your ankle or develop a fever. The ankle you injured or your head feels
ing molecules (such as free radicals) than very warm to the touch and hurts, and your head may ache from the fever. Acute inflam-
to antioxidant molecules that neutralize mation goes away with time as your body heals itself. Chronic, low-grade inflammation
them. Over time, oxidative stress causes
damage to lipids, DNA, cells and tissues. It
doesn’t hurt; it occurs silently within the fluids, tissues, and cells inside your body; and
increases the risk of heart disease, type 2 it lasts weeks, months, or years. An important part of the body’s inflammatory response
diabetes, cancer, and other diseases. is the production and release of oxidizing agents such as free radicals that destroy the
osteoporosis A condition in which bones offending substances. In the process, however, free radicals may also oxidize fats (lipids),
become fragile and susceptible to fracture cell membranes, and DNA inside of cells. In the short term, damage induced by oxidation
due to a loss of calcium and other minerals. reactions can generally be reduced by antioxidants produced by the body and consumed
free radicals Chemical substances (often in vegetables, fruits, whole-grain products, and other plant foods.16
oxygen-based) that are missing electrons. Inflammation is related to chronic disease development when it is present at a low
The absence of electrons makes the chemical level for a long time, or is chronic. Chronic inflammation and the resulting oxidative stress
substance reactive and prone to oxidiz-
ing nearby molecules by stealing electrons
are sustained by irritants continually present in the body. Excess body fat and habitually
from them. Free radicals can damage lipids, high intake of foods high in saturated fats and added sugar are examples of such irritants.
proteins, cells, DNA, and eventually tissues by If not countered by a sufficient supply of antioxidants, chronic inflammatory processes and
altering their chemical structure and functions. oxidative stress impair the normal functioning of cells and tissues. Chronic inflammation
antioxidants Chemical substances that represents a major pathway by which diet influences the development of chronic disease.39
prevent or repair damage to cells caused Loss of excess body fat and a dietary pattern high in whole grains, colorful vegetables,
by oxidizing agents such as pollutants, fruit, poultry, and fish and low in refined grains, added sugars, red and processed meat, high-
ozone, smoke, and reactive oxygen. Oxida-
tion reactions are a normal part of cellular
fat dairy products, and sweetened beverages is associated with lower levels of inflammation
processes. Vitamins C and E and certain compared to dietary patterns that do not.17, 18 Table 2.2 summarizes the types of foods included
phytochemicals function as antioxidants. in dietary patterns that tend to decrease or increase oxidative stress and inflammation.
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Nutrient–Gene Interactions and Health Some diseases are promoted by interactions Table 2.2 Types of food associated
between nutrients and genes. One example of such an interaction involves gene types and the with decreased or increased
health effects of cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, and cab- inflammation, oxidative stress,
or both11,14,15
bage. These vegetables contain isothiocyanates (pronounced ice-o-thee-o-sigh-ah-nates), which
are involved in the prevention of cancer development. Individuals carrying certain types of Decreased
genes that lead to the rapid breakdown of isothiocyanates and related compounds are more Colorful fruits and vegetables
susceptible to cancer development than others who break down these substances slowly.
Isothiocyanates appear to block mechanisms that promote tumor development.19 Another Dried beans
example of nutrient–gene interactions that influence health relates to obesity. The causes of Whole grains
obesity are complex and include interactions between a number of gene types and envi-
Fish and seafood, fish oils
ronmental factors. One contributing genetic factor appears to be the form of the FTO gene
present. This gene participates in processes that regulate appetite and food intake. People Red wines
with the “high-risk” form of the FTO gene experience a higher lifetime risk of becoming Dark chocolates
overweight or obese compared to those who have the “low-risk” form of the gene.20
Olive oil
Knowledge of nutrient–gene interactions in health and disease is expanding rapidly
and is greatly enhancing our understanding of the relationship between diet and health. Nuts
This knowledge will contribute to the development of personalized nutritional interven- Coffee, tea
tions targeted at an individual’s genetic characteristics.21
Increased
The Importance of Food Choices Processed and high-fat meats
People are not born with an internal compass that directs them to select a healthy diet— High-fat dairy products
and it shows. If given access to a food supply like that available in the United States, people Baked products, snack foods with
show a marked tendency to choose a diet that is high in energy-dense, nutrient-poor trans fats
foods22 (Illustration 2.4). Such a diet tends to include processed foods high in saturated
Soft drinks, other high-sugar
fat, salt, or sugar and low in whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and other basic foods. This beverages
type of diet poses the greatest risks to the health of Americans.22
Excess alcohol
Diet and Diseases Refined grain products (rice, white

bread, pastries)
of Western Civilization
●●
Explain how differences in diets of early versus modern humans may
promote the development of certain diseases.
Why is the U.S. diet—a “Western” style of eating—hazardous to our health in so many
ways? What is it about a diet that is high in animal fat, salt, and sugar and low in veg-
etables, fruits, and whole grains that promotes certain chronic diseases? A good deal of
evidence indicates that the chronic diseases now prevalent in the United States and other
Westernized countries have roots in dietary changes that have taken place over centuries.
Our Bodies Haven’t Changed

The biological processes that control what the human body does with food were devel-
oped over the course of our evolution tens of thousands of years ago. These processes exist
today because they are linked to the genetic makeup of humans and continue to influence
how diet affects health.23,24
Then . . . For the first 200 centuries of their existence, humans survived by hunting and
gathering (Illustration 2.5). They were constantly on the move, pursuing wild game or
following the seasonal maturation of fruits and vegetables. Meat, berries, and many other
plant products obtained from successful hunting and gathering journeys spoiled quickly,
so they had to be consumed in a short time. Feasts would be followed by famines that
lasted until the next successful hunt or harvest.23
. . . and Now The bodies of modern humans, adapted to exist on a diet of wild game,
fish, fruits, nuts, seeds, roots, vegetables, and grubs; to survive periods of famine; and to
sustain a physically demanding lifestyle are now exposed to a different set of circumstances.
Diet and Diseases o f W ester n Ci v ili z ation 2-5
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Illustration 2.4 Lopsided, all-American
food choices.
Thomas Firak Photography/

Photolibrary/Getty Images
Photodisc
Photodisc
Photodisc
The foods we eat bear little resemblance to the foods available to our early ancestors (Illus-
tration 2.6). Sugar, salt, alcohol, food additives, oils, margarine, dairy products, refined
grain products, and processed foods were not a part of their diets. These ingredients and
foods came with Western civilization.23 Furthermore, we do not have to engage in strenu-
ous physical activity to obtain food, and our feasts are no longer followed by famines.
The human body developed other survival mechanisms that are not the assets they
used to be. Mechanisms that stimulate hunger in the presence of excess body fat stores,
conserve the body’s supply of sodium, and confer an innate preference for sweet-tasting
foods—as well as a digestive system that functions best on a high-fiber diet—were advan-
tages for early humans. They are not advantageous for modern humans, however, because
our diets and lifestyles are now vastly different.
Nat Farbman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Christophe Courteau/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
(a) (b)
Illustration 2.5 Hunter-gatherers still exist in the world, but their numbers are diminishing. It is estimated that hunter-gatherers consume
approximately 3,000 calories daily due to their physically demanding way of life.
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onder de gesprekken met den Surinaamschen Neger als een
eigenaardigheid was opgevallen.
Nahar had bij het verzamelen van negervertellingen [207]nog met een
andere moeilijkheid te kampen, waarop hij niet gerekend had, nl. met
het bij den Neger ingewortelde bijgeloof, waardoor hij telkens
teleurgesteld werd, wanneer hij wilde trachten, op Zondag, den voor
hem geschiktsten dag, nieuwe vertellingen machtig te worden.
Het innerlijke leven van den Neger wordt, evenals dat van den Indiaan,
zoozeer beïnvloed door zijn bijgeloof, dat om het goed te kunnen
begrijpen, eene kennis van het uitgebreide netwerk van
bijgeloovigheden, waarvan hij zich steeds omringd gevoelt, zoo niet
noodzakelijk, dan toch zeer nuttig zou zijn. Het is daarom, dat ik aan
den bundel Surinaamsche Anansi-tori’s laat voorafgaan een door M. H.
Nahar mij toegezonden opstel, getiteld: „De Anansi-tori en het
Bijgeloof”. De lezers, die meer over dit onderwerp willen vernemen,
verwijs ik naar het opstel van de Gebroeders Penard, (P. b.).
Vooral van oude negerinnen, van wie Nahar kon verwachten, de meest
oorspronkelijke vertellingen te zullen hooren, kreeg hij steeds een
weigering, op Zondag aan het vertellen te gaan, want „kerki teki habra
wi kisi dopoe 8 en mi wan kerki soema moe taki anansitori?” 9, waren de
antwoorden, die een oude negerin, eertijds slavin op de plantage
Brouwerslust (Brouroe) en nu lidmaat van de Moravische
broedergemeente, Nahar gaf, terwijl zij hem met argusoogen aanzag,
diep ademhaalde en de tong tegen haar verhemelte sloeg.
De volharding, waarmede Nahar zich van zijn taak gekweten heeft 10,
mag daarom op hoogen prijs worden [208]gesteld, omdat zijne
verzameling negervertellingen den grondslag vormt, waarop anderen
zullen kunnen voortbouwen 11.
Met nadruk mag hier zeker wel gewezen worden op den steeds
toenemenden Europeeschen invloed, die ook de neger-folklore van
Suriname bezig is te ondergaan, en die reeds zóó groot is, dat het zeer
moeielijk is, onder de jongeren van het zwarte deel van Suriname’s
bevolking oorspronkelijke anansi-tori’s machtig te worden. Terecht drukt
Nahar dan ook in een zijner minder voor publicatie geschikte
aanteekeningen over het bijgeloof zijne teleurstelling er over uit, dat de
voormalige slavin op Brouwerslust er niet toe te brengen was, anansi-
tori’s te vertellen, „daar stellig zeer typische voor den dag zouden zijn
gekomen”.
Alvorens nu op de verschillende vertellingen een korte toelichting te

geven, in den zelfden geest, als ik bij de mondelinge overleveringen der
Indianen heb getracht te doen, zal het nuttig zijn, enkele regels te
wijden aan de vermoedelijke herkomst der Surinaamsche
negervertellingen, waarbij de Geschiedenis van den Surinaamschen
Neger ons zal moeten leiden.
In Suriname, met zijne uit zooveel verschillende elementen

samengestelde bevolking, hebben alleen de Negers hunne
spinverhalen of anansi-tori’s, waaruit blijkt, dat deze vertellingen van
Afrikaanschen oorsprong zijn. Iedereen weet dit ook in de kolonie. Werd
niet de gouddelver, die zoo bang was op Zondag anansi-tori’s te
vertellen of [209]aan te hooren 12 door den tolk Nahar dadelijk
gerustgesteld met de woorden: „anansi-tori’s zijn immers slechts
sprookjes, die door de Afrikanen en hunne kinderen vervaardigd zijn en
die hier al sedert 2 à 300 jaar bestaan”.
Onze nasporingen betreffende den oorsprong dezer vertellingen zullen

wij dus in de eerste plaats daarheen moeten richten, vanwaar indertijd
de negerslaven zijn weggehaald.
Terwijl door meerdere schrijvers de Goudkust en aangrenzende

kuststreken, de Congo en ook wel Soedan als de streken van herkomst
worden vermeld, schijnt het toch wel vast te staan, dat verreweg het
grootste deel der slaven van de Goudkust afkomstig is, waarheen de
Hollanders reeds in 1595 hun eerste handelsreis maakten, en wel meer
in het bijzonder van St. George del Mina, dat, evenals Brazilië, door den
dapperen Maurits van Nassau voor Nederland veroverd werd en dat
van 1637 tot 1872 een Nederlandsche kolonie was 13.
Behalve St. George del Mina bouwden de Hollanders aan de Goudkust

nog 16 andere forten en deze bezitting met het aangrenzende
achterland kon ruimschoots voorzien in de behoeften aan negerslaven,
toen de Hollanders ook in Guyana nederzettingen gingen vormen, in
Essequibo in 1616, in Berbice in 1624 en in Suriname, dat Engeland bij
den vrede van Breda in 1667 aan Nederland afstond, welk bezit aan het
einde van den derden Engelschen oorlog, bij den vrede van
Westminster in 1674, ten volle bevestigd werd.
Het was vooral in de belangrijke periode van 1660–1840, [210]ook wel

het suikertijdperk genoemd 14, dat de Hollanders zich voor hunne
ondernemingen in Guyana aan de Goudkust van de noodige slaven
voorzagen en dit aantal zal zeker niet gering geweest zijn, vooral in het
tijdperk, waarin ook Engelsch Guyana eene Nederlandsche bezitting
was.
Waarom nu zouden de Hollandsche kolonisten elders in Afrika gezocht

hebben, wat in hun eigen kolonie ruimschoots te krijgen was?
Naar het Hollandsche fort Kormantijn of Koromanti, nabij het fort

Elmina, werden deze kustslaven Koromantijnen genoemd, of ook wel
eens met den naam Koffies aangeduid, naar den algemeen bij de
Ashantijnen voorkomenden naam Kofi (zie blz. 213). Want deze
Koromantijnen waren de aan de Goudkust wonende Fantijnen en de
aan deze vijandig gezinde Ashantijnen van het achterland—stammen,
die in hunne lichamelijke eigenschappen en in hunne gebruiken de
stamverwantschap met den Surinaamschen neger nog duidelijk
verraden.
Doch ook van uit de Engelsche slavendepôts moeten meermalen
negerslaven in Suriname zijn ingevoerd, vooral toen vele Engelsche
kolonisten zich sedert de komst van Parham in 1652 in Suriname
kwamen vestigen, om zich op de winstgevende suikerrietcultuur toe te
leggen, niet het minst in het tijdperk tusschen de jaren 1799 en 1802 en
de jaren 1804 en 1816, toen Suriname in Engelsche handen was.
Vóór het midden der 17e eeuw kochten de Engelsche kolonisten echter
meestal slaven van de Hollanders, totdat ook zij in staat waren,
blijvende slavendepôts in West-Afrika te vestigen. Zoo richtten zij
depôts op in 1618 en 1664 aan de Gambia-rivier en in 1618, 1626,
[211]1668 aan de Goudkust. Ook met Sierra Leone, West-Liberia en het
achterland en met de landen aan den Boven-Niger ontwikkelde zich een
levendige slavenhandel, die in het laatst der 14e eeuw in verband met
de hooge vlucht, die de suikerriet-cultuur had genomen, het toppunt
bereikte.
Ook de Joden, die—gelijk bekend van Portugeeschen afkomst—een

belangrijke rol hebben gespeeld in de kolonisatie van Suriname,
hebben zeer belangrijk bijgedragen tot den invoer van negerslaven uit
de laatstgenoemde streken, want tot aan de afschaffing der slavernij
hadden zij vertegenwoordigers aan de Gambia-rivier, in Sierra Leone en
elders aan de West-Afrikaansche kust en vormden zij als het ware de
tusschenpersonen in den slavenhandel.
Wanneer dus, zooals uit dit onvolledig overzicht mag gebleken zijn,
verreweg het grootste deel der tegenwoordige negerbevolking van
Suriname mag teruggevoerd worden tot de verschillende
negerstammen van de Goudkust en het achterland, van Sierra Leone,
van West-Liberia met het achterland, van de landen aan den Boven-
Niger en van het stroomgebied der Gambia-rivier, dan dringt van zelf de
vraag aan ons op, of, hetgeen verwacht mag worden, deze afkomst nog
in de taal, in de godsdienstige gebruiken en in de folk-lore der
Surinaamsche negerbevolking sporen heeft achtergelaten.
Hoewel deze bundel uitsluitend gewijd is aan de folk-lore, mag toch op

enkele merkwaardige overeenkomsten worden gewezen, die de
eerstgenoemde uitingen van het geestelijk leven betreffen.
De Neger-Engelsche taal, door de Surinaamsche negers gesproken, is

een merkwaardig samenvoegsel van uit verschillende talen afkomstige
woorden. De slaven, die op de eerste vestigingsplaatsen met de
Blanken, nl. met [212]Engelschen, nl. in het deel der kolonie, waar later
Paramaribo ontstond, en met Portugeesche Joden aan de Boven-
Suriname-rivier (Jodensavanne) in aanraking waren, trachtten de taal
hunner meesters te spreken en aldus ontstonden twee verschillende
dialecten: het eene, het Neger-Engelsch, het tweede het Neger-
Portugeesch, die beide rijk waren aan Afrikaansche woorden en
uitdrukkingen, terwijl in het eene het Engelsch, in het andere het
Portugeesch overheerschte. Later loste zich het laatste in het eerste op,
toen de Joden naar de Hoofdstad gingen verhuizen, maar het Neger-
Portugeesch bleef toch een bijzonderen stempel drukken op de taal der
negers, waartoe o.a. behoort de neiging, om evenals bij aanverwante
Zuid-Europeesche talen, de woorden te doen eindigen met een klinker,
waardoor het Neger-Engelsch een zekere zoetvloeiendheid eigen is, die
het, evenals het Italiaansch, zoo uitermate voor den zang geschikt
maakt.
Nadat Suriname voorgoed een Nederlandsche kolonie geworden was,

en vooral ook, nadat ongeveer 46 jaar geleden het Nederlandsch de
algemeene voertaal van het Onderwijs was geworden, is de invloed van
de Nederlandsche taal op de Negertaal in onze kolonie steeds
toegenomen, zoodat men deze tegenwoordig beter Neger-Hollandsch,
dan Neger-Engelsch zou kunnen noemen.
Onder de woorden nu van Afrikaanschen oorsprong in de Neger-

Engelsche taal—want men is de negertaal in Suriname nog altijd zoo
blijven noemen—zijn er, die afgeleid moeten worden van de Tshi-taal,
gesproken door de negerstammen aan de Goudkust (meer in het
bijzonder de Ashantijnen en de Fantijnen). Spin is in de Tshi-taal
anansi* 15. Duidelijker is deze verwantschap gebleken uit eene studie
van het West-Indische eiland Jamaica, dat het meerendeel der slaven
eveneens [213]van de Goudkust heeft gekregen (zie later). Hier heet de
spin unnahncy waarbij de klemtoon op de middelste lettergreep valt.
(Je).
Op ondubbelzinnige wijze wordt de afkomst van ten minste een groot

deel der Surinaamsche negerslaven uit de Negers der Goudkust
(Ashantijnen en Fantijnen en andere de Tsji-taal sprekende stammen)
aangetoond door de namen, die in den slaventijd en ook nog lang
daarna, aan de negerkinderen werden gegeven.
Nahar, die veel onder negers verkeerd heeft, en er gekend heeft, die
den slaventijd hebben meêgemaakt, schrijft mij: „Vroeger gaven de
negers hunnen kinderen den naam van den dag hunner geboorte, voor
jongens en meisjes verschillend”.
Zoo heette een kind geboren op:
Jongen: Meisje:
Zondag Kwasi Kwasiba
Maandag Kodjo Adjoeba
Dinsdag Kwamina Abeni (Abeniba)
Woensdag Kwakoe Akoeba
Donderdag Jaoe of Jau Jaba
Vrijdag Kovi of Kofi Afi of Affiba
Zaterdag Kwami Amba (Amimba)
Dezelfde gewoonte bestaat volgens A. B. Ellis (El.) bij de Ashantijnen,

Fantijnen en andere, de Tshi-taal sprekende stammen en de afleiding
van de namen der Surinaamsche negerslaven van de bij de
laatstgenoemde stammen gebruikelijke namen zal voor ieder, die het
onderstaand, aan Ellis ontleende lijstje met de opgaven van Nahar
vergelijkt, ontwijfelbaar vaststaan: 16 [214]
Jongen: Meisje:
Zondag Kwasi Akosua, Akwasibah, Aysi
Maandag Kwadjo Adua
Dinsdag Kobina, Kwabina Abbena, Arabak
Woensdag Kwaku Ekua
Donderdag Know, Yow, Akkor Abbak, Yabbah, Yawah
Vrijdag Kwoffi Effua, Yah
Zaterdag Kwami, Kwamina Amma, Ameminiwah
Ook met betrekking tot de godsdienstige begrippen en de gewoonten

en gebruiken zou het niet moeilijk vallen, door nauwkeurige vergelijking
in menig opzicht groote verwantschap te vinden tusschen de
Surinaamsche negers (meer in het bijzonder de Boschnegers, die nog
in volmaakt heidendom leven en buiten de aanraking met de blanken
weinig of niet veranderd zijn) 17 en de negers der Goudkust.
Beide gelooven aan een Hoofdgod (Grangado of Groote God der

Boschnegers). Deze godheid is echter te groot en te verheven, om zich
met de aardsche stervelingen in te laten. De tusschengeesten of
ondergodheden zijn daar, om zich met het lot der menschen te
bemoeien en hen goed of kwaad te doen, naarmate deze Geesten goed
of kwaad gezind zijn.
Bij de Goudkust-negers, die de Tshi-taal spreken, heet de Opperste

God Bodowissi, in de zuidelijke deelen later vervangen door een nog
hoogeren God, die Nyankupon genoemd wordt (Ba. bl. 23), en bij de
Ashantijnen Tando heet. Evenals bij de Indianen mogen aan deze
Godheden niet de beteekenis worden toegeschreven, die de Christelijke
leer aan God hecht, want de Opperste Godheden der genoemde
primitieve negerstammen zijn stoffelijke, [215]tastbare wezens, die de
gedaante en eigenschappen van menschen hebben. Bodowissi wordt
bijv. door personen aangeroepen, die een langen tocht ondernemen,
als: „Nana Bodowissi, jeh hyen miankor jeh hyen miombah yi”, d.i.
„Grootvader Bodowissi, laat ons veilig terug keeren”.
Volgens de opvatting van de Goudkustnegers en der Surinaamsche

Boschnegers dwalen eene menigte booze geesten rond, om allerlei
onheilen te stichten. Bijna alle kwade geesten hebben, volgens hun
geloof, ook meer bepaalde verblijfplaatsen, doorgaans dieren en
planten.
De Boschnegers van Suriname vereeren den Zijdekatoenboom of de

Kankantrie*, terwijl het aan de Goudkust verschillende op dezen
woudreus gelijkende boomsoorten zijn, die in het leven der negers een
evengroote rol spelen, doch er botanisch niet mede verwant zijn. Alles
wordt gedaan, om de kwade geesten, die in den boom verblijf houden
en als de oorzaak van allerlei ziekten worden beschouwd, door het
brengen van offers gunstig te stemmen, die in Ashanti oorspronkelijk uit
menschen, later uit dieren bestonden en die zich later, evenals nu nog
bij de Boschnegers, gingen bepalen tot allerlei aftreksels van kruiden,
dranken, spijzen enz. (C. e.)
Het geloof aan een Geest, die den mensch zelven bemachtigt, hem als
het ware bezielt, treffen wij, zoowel bij de negers der Goudkust als bij
de Surinaamsche negers aan. Deze Geest heet bij de eersten kra, bij
de laatsten kra of akrá. Hij mag niet verward worden met hetgeen wij de
ziel noemen, want de kra is slechts een geest, die over den mensch
waakt, zoolang hij leeft, die zijne handelingen beheerscht en wiens
verband met het lichaam bij den dood ophoudt.
Volgens de Penards (P. b.) kan de mensch zijn kra, die zij levensgeest
van den mensch noemen, naar willekeur van zich scheiden en weêr
oproepen, en kan ook een [216]vreemde, die er verstand van heeft, de
kra van een verwijderd persoon oproepen, ten einde hem om raad te
vragen. Iemand, die van zijn kra beroofd is, spreekt wartaal, wordt
lusteloos of ziek en sterft dikwijls.
De Tshi-taal sprekende negers der Goudkust kennen aan ieder
natuurprodukt eene kra toe en de redeneeringen, die hen, volgens
Ellis, tot dit geloof hebben geleid, komen uit een logischen
gedachtengang voort. Iemand valt op zekeren dag in de rivier, zegt
deze schrijver (El. a) van de negers, die de Tshi-taal spreken. Hij
verdrinkt; het lichaam wordt uit het water gehaald en blijkt geen
teekenen van geweld te vertoonen, die den dood hadden kunnen
veroorzaken. Welke was dan de oorzaak van den dood? vraagt de
neger 18. Water alleen doet geen kwaad; hij drinkt het immers dagelijks;
hij wascht zich er mede en gebruikt het voor een menigte doeleinden.
Hij trekt dus het besluit, dat het water den dood van den man niet kan
hebben veroorzaakt; en daar hij een geestelijk wezen bij de hand heeft,
waaraan hij het ongeluk toeschrijft, neemt hij aan, dat de kra van de
rivier, m.a.w. de in de rivier huizende geest den man heeft gedood. Dit
maakt hem bang, want als de man, die in het water is gevallen, door
den riviergeest gedood is kunnen worden, waarom ook niet een ander
—waarom niet hij zelf misschien?
Hij tracht daarom op alle mogelijke manieren dien machtigen geest

zachter te stemmen: hij gaat hem vereeren enz.
Door de negerstammen van de slavenkust (El. a), het deel van de

West-kust van Afrika, dat zich ten Oosten van de Goudkust uitstrekt,
worden krokodillen d.w.z. [217]bepaalde soorten daarom vereerd, omdat
zij de verblijfplaats zijn van een Geest, ook door hen kra genoemd, die
bij gebrek aan een menschelijke woning, bij den dood van een persoon
in het lichaam van een krokodil zijn verblijf heeft opgeslagen. Zulke
Kra’s, die van den mensch in lagere diersoorten zijn overgegaan en dus
achteruitgegaan zijn, worden algemeen als kwaadgezind beschouwd.
Deze achteruitgegane geesten zoeken bij voorkeur dieren tot
verblijfplaats op, die op menschen loeren. De bedoelde negers
gelooven dan ook, dat iedere krokodil, die een mensch doodt, handelt
door een kwaadgezinden geest, die in hem woont—op dezelfde wijze
dus, als waarop de Surinaamsche neger, zooals werd opgemerkt,
dikwijls zijn eigen handelingen verklaart.
Zeer merkwaardig is in dit verband de zang op het water, door den
hoofdman in een kano aangeheven, met de bedoeling, de kra van den
krokodil te vleien. De zang vangt aan met een koor, door alle
bootslieden gezongen:
Koor: Jalodeh 19, goede Geest! Leid ons, bescherm ons tegen kwaad.
Solo: Gij zijt groot; gij zijt sterk! O, Jalodeh. Wanneer Ge het verkoos, zoudt
Gij in macht met Shango 20 kunnen wedijveren. Maar Gij beschouwt het als
onwaardig, om wreed en bloeddorstig te zijn, en Gij geeft er liever de
voorkeur aan, U zelf beroemd te maken, door ons de weldaden van Uw
vrijgeleide te laten genieten.
Wij vertrouwen op U, O, Jalodeh! Wees onzer genadig!
Koor: Jalodeh, goede Geest; geleid ons, bescherm ons tegen het kwade.
[218]
Solo: Gij zijt zóó sterk, dat het volk U evenzeer vreest als het U bemint. Maar
Gij, wat hebt Gij te vreezen? De speer kan Uw huid niet doorboren; de
geweerkogel ketst op U af en is verloren. Niemand kan iets tegen U doen.
Niets kan U weêrstaan. Hij, dien Gij beschermt, heeft geen waakzaamheid
noodig; hij slaapt, wanneer Uw oog op hem rust.
Wij vertrouwen op U, O, Jalodeh! Wees onzer genadig!
Koor: Jalodeh, goede Geest; geleid ons, bescherm ons tegen kwaad.
Solo: Zie, in deze kano komen reizigers uit het land der Blanken. Laat er geen
kwaad met hen gebeuren in uwe wateren, anders zoudt Gij even boosaardig
zijn als Legba 21. Wanneer zij mochten komen te sterven, zou het volk kunnen
gelooven, dat wij ons niet voldoende tegenover U hadden in acht genomen
en geprezen. Toon den Blanken, dat Gij menschen beschermt. Geleid ons
zonder ongevallen verder.
Koor: Jalodeh, goede Geest! Geleid ons, bescherm ons tegen ongelukken.
Solo: Ik herinner mij nog, dat ik nog een kind was, toen mijn moeder mij naar
Uwe wateren heenbracht, en mij in het water onderdompelde. Ik wist nog niet,
dat er eenig gevaar voor mij was. Gij waart vlak bij mij, en mijn moeder was
zeer bang. Maar Gij hebt mijn kleine leden geliefkoosd en hebt gezorgd, dat
ik naar een veilige plaats kon gaan.
Jalodeh, o, beste aller goden, geleid ons. Ik zal U altijd eeren, en zoo
mogelijk steeds meer.
Koor: Jalodeh! O, beste aller goden, geleid ons. Altijd zullen we U eeren, ja
altijd meer!.…
[219]
Een overblijfsel van de vereering van de geesten der

natuurvoortbrengselen, van natuuraanbidding, heb ik op onzen tocht
door Suriname’s wildernissen (C. b.) bij onzen kok aangetroffen, wiens
vader slaaf was geweest. Vooral, als wij diep in het oerwoud
gekampeerd lagen, werd hij overmeesterd door de machtige grootheid
der natuur. „Weet u wel”, zoo zei hij mij eens, „dat alles in de natuur een
Geest heeft, zijn God, tot zelfs de steenen in de rivier, die zoo dikwijls
boot-ongelukken veroorzaken? Laten we zorgen, dat de Geesten ons
gunstig gezind zijn”.
Ook bij de Surinaamsche negers treft men nog sporen van het geloof
aan een in den mensch verblijf houdende kra of akrá aan. Wanneer een
neger nl. iets verkeerds heeft gedaan, waarvoor hij zich niet verdedigen
kan, verontschuldigt hij zich dikwijls met: „A no mi, na mi akra”. 22
Dat, na een zóó langdurige inwerking van vreemde invloeden, bij de

negerbevolking van Suriname nog zooveel oorspronkelijks is
overgebleven, en dat bij een intiemeren omgang met dit deel der
Surinaamsche bevolking steeds meer oude herinneringen aan Afrika en
den slaventijd te ontdekken vallen, mag ons zeker niet verwonderen, als
wij aan de ruwe, dikwijls onmenschelijke behandeling denken, waaraan
de negerslaven herhaaldelijk van de zijde der kolonisten hebben
blootgestaan (Joh. blz. 113) 23 en waardoor een vurig verlangen naar en
herinneringen aan het land, waarvan zij eertijds zoo wreedelijk waren
ontrukt, bij het volk als een heiligen schat bewaard bleef.
Nog geen twee weken was ik in de kolonie, toen een negerinnetje, een
onzer dienstboden gedurende ons verblijf te Paramaribo, mijn aandacht
vroeg voor het land waaruit haar grootvader eertijds als slaaf was
weggevoerd, [220]want toen haar gevraagd werd, voor onze
phonographische opnamen een typische negerliedje te willen zingen,
hief zij met sympathieken stem, het later door mij meermalen gehoorde,
„mooi Afrika mi lobi di”. 24
De afkeer, die zoovelen onzer rasgenooten, helaas! ook nog in onze

dagen, jegens al wat neger is aan den dag leggen, waardoor zij het
veelal beneden hunne waardigheid achten, tot zijn innerlijk leven af te
dalen, heeft er ongetwijfeld veel toe bijgedragen, dat de Surinaamsche
neger in zijn denkwijze, zijn gewoonten en gebruiken betrekkelijk nog
zoo weinig veranderd is, en het is zeker te betreuren, dat nog niemand
van zijn verblijf in de kolonie gebruik heeft gemaakt, om die
herinneringen aan Afrika en den slaventijd op te sporen en te boek te
stellen.
Het is ook weêr aan M. H. Nahar te danken, dat ik te dezer plaatse

enkele dier oude herinneringen kan vermelden.
In een zijner mij toegezonden opstellen wordt de voorstelling verhaald,

die nog bij oude negers en ook bij de Boschnegers aangaande den
heiligen Kankantrie*, den Boesi-granman of Boesi-mama 25 wordt
aangetroffen.
De Boesi-mama is onder de beheerschers der bosschen de meest

bekende. Zij komt overeen met een mensch, alleen met dit verschil, dat
hare voeten van achteren zitten en dat zij een vreemd hoofd met lang
haar draagt. Zij kent alle geneeskrachtige kruiden, doch voor den
mensch schijnt zij er weinig gebruik van te maken, want met de
menschen, die in hare nabijheid komen, vangt zij den strijd aan, waarin
zij bijna altijd overwint. Vandaar dat hij, die in het bosch verdwaalt, er
nimmer meer uitkomt. Door Indiaansche priesters (Piai Ingies) en door
[221]droomen is men er achter gekomen, dat het de Boesimama is, die
de menschen wegvoert.
Wanneer een man in den strijd met de Boesimama overwint, hetgeen
maar zelden voorkomt, wordt hij haar minnaar en door haar
onderwezen in alle mogelijke kunsten, die de wetenschappen ver te
boven gaan.
Haar bestaan schijnt niet meer te zijn van dezen tijd, zoo eindigen
Nahar’s mededeelingen, daar er heel weinig meer over haar
gesproken wordt.
Dit bijgeloof moet uit de Goudkust zijn overgebracht, waar in alle

districten twee godheden of Geesten bekend zijn, die in, onder of te
midden van den Zijdekatoenboom huizen en den naam hebben
gekregen van Srahmantin (Srahman = geest, tin = afkorting van tsintsin
= slank, hoog) en Sasabonsum (abonsum = kwaadaardigheid,
betoovering). De eerste leeft er te midden van den hoogen
Zijdekatoenboom, wiens enorme stammen ver boven de omringende
boomen van het bosch uitsteken; de tweede wordt nu eens te midden,
dan weêr onder den Zijdekatoenboom aangetroffen, nl. daar, waar de
aarde een roode kleur heeft. Hij is de vriend van toovenaars en heksen.
Hij is een monsterlijk wezen in menschengedaante, met lang haar en
een roode huidskleur. Hij heeft een voorliefde voor menschenvleesch
en belaagt en verslindt eenzame voorbijtrekkers. Men gelooft, dat de
roode kleur van de aarde van het bloed der slachtoffers, die hij doodt,
afkomstig is.
Srahmantin is een vrouwelijke Geest, eveneens van monsterlijke

gedaante, met lang haar en lange hangende borsten. Zij wordt alleen in
of te midden van de Zijdekatoenboomen aangetroffen. Zij grijpt
eveneens eenzame voorbijtrekkers aan, doch zij verslindt hen nimmer.
Zij houdt hen 4 of 5 maanden bij zich, en doet hen naar de dorpen
gaan, waar zij hare priesters of priesteressen worden, die door haar zijn
ingelicht omtrent alle geheimen, haar betreffende. [222]
De meeningen omtrent deze Geesten loopen bij de verschillende

stammen nog al uiteen. De plaatselijke Srahmantin van een verwijderd
dorp werd gezegd twaalf hoofden te hebben. (El.)
Vooral de laatste mededeeling is van gewicht in verband met hetgeen

zooeven gezegd is omtrent den oorsprong van het bijgeloof, dat bij
oude Surinaamsche negers nog heerscht ten opzichte van den
Kankantrie, en dat vermoedelijk is voortgekomen uit de voorstelling, die
de Goudkust-negers zich van Srahmantin maken.
Dat de slaven ook het eigenaardig bootgezang, als begeleiding hunner

gelijkmatige roeibewegingen, uit Afrika naar Suriname, met zijne talrijke
rivieren, zouden overbrengen, sprak van zelf.
Werd niet meermalen de poëzie beschreven, die een tocht op een der
Afrikaansche stroomen den reiziger schenkt (zie: Bijvoegsel II),
wanneer de negerroeiers hunne eentonige roeiliederen over het water
laten klinken, en brengen zulke beschrijvingen niet levendig een
boottocht op een der Surinaamsche rivieren voor den geest, als de
zwarte roeiers hun rank vaartuig aan den voet van het machtige
oerwoud zachtkens voortbewegen en zij hunne eindelooze roeiliederen
met trillende stem uitgalmen?
Ruimschoots heb ik op den tocht door Suriname’s wildernissen

gelegenheid gehad, de poëzie van dit boto siengi der negers te leeren
waardeeren, wanneer zij, niet afgeleid door hindernissen in het
stroombed, als steengevaarten, watervallen en stroomversnellingen,
hunne stemmen den vrijen loop lieten en zij hunne korte melodieën,
doch tallooze malen herhaald, in de stilte van den vroegen morgen over
water lieten klinken.
Daar deze negerzangen, ter begeleiding der eentonige
roeibewegingen, in Suriname aan een tocht op het water even
onafscheidelijk verbonden zijn geworden …—Zie blz. 222.
Daar deze negerzangen, ter begeleiding der eentonige roeibewegingen,

in Suriname aan een tocht op het water [223]even onafscheidelijk
verbonden zijn geworden, als zij zulks oorspronkelijk aan een reis op
een der Afrikaansche stroomen waren (zie: het bijvoegsel: „Avond op
het water in Sierra Leone”), zullen enkele staaltjes, die, ook ter
karakteriseering van het negergemoed, belangstelling verdienen, hier
ter plaatse evenmin mogen ontbreken, als in het verhaal, dat ik aan den
tocht gewijd heb. (C.b.)
De lezer oordeele:
No. 1.
No. 2. Social dansa.
[224]
Het laatste lied is door negers uit de Britsche bezitting Barbados, het
meest oostelijk gelegen eiland der Kleine Antillen, medegebracht, en
wordt daar op de plantage gedurende een gemeenschappelijken dans
(Social dansa) gezongen, waarbij de dansenden, elkander de hand
houdende, een kring vormen en telkens van plaats verwisselen. Het
luidt vertaald: Alexander, kom eens zien, de wachter heeft mijn gouden
ring gestolen. Koelieman, Chinees … Gij, hallo! Zoekt de ring!
Het bootgezang, dat op onze terugreis uit de Binnenlanden van

Suriname in 1900 door een onzer negerroeiers werd aangeheven (C.b.
blz. 218), mag ook in dezen bundel niet ontbreken, omdat de neger
hierin weder van zijn buitengewoon improvisatie-talent en dichterlijke
phantasie blijk heeft gegeven, daar woorden en muziek, al naar het
hem inviel, werden voorgedragen en hij daarin op zijn wijze de
geschiedenis van den tocht heeft trachten te bezingen. Al bracht ik
slechts het eerste couplet van den merkwaardigen zang, aan de hand
van Mr. Focke’s Neger-Engelsch woordenboek, op schrift, is het
niettemin zeer de aandacht waard, omdat het de meening van Bücher
helpt bevestigen, in zijn „Arbeit und Rythmus” verkondigd, dat het
gedicht zijn oorsprong dankt aan de behoefte der natuurvolken, om
hunne eentonige bewegingen door gezang te begeleiden.
Zie hiernaast het couplet 26, waarin zelfs niet tegen den klemtoon
gezondigd wordt: [225]
Omtrent den oorsprong van dit bootgezang, Boto-siengi genoemd,
bestaat bij de negers onzer kolonie eene overlevering, die door Nahar
als volgt wordt verteld:
Legende van het Boto-siengi.

„Wie van U allen”, vroeg ik aan eenige negers, die bij elkander waren, „kan
mij toch uitleggen, om welke reden [226]gedurende het roeien moet gezongen
worden, en wel met zulke lange tonen, die het lied haast onverstaanbaar
maken”.
Geen hunner kon mij hierop antwoorden, toen een oude neger binnenkwam,
die het raadsel wist op te lossen.
„Wel vriend”, vertelde hij, „in den slavenstand heerschte er discipline, zoo U
weet; zelfs vrouwen moesten de riemen aanpakken en dit ging onder een
doodelijke stilte, zoodat men wel een speld kon hooren vallen”.
„Je weet toch, dat er plantages zijn, die 3 tot 4 watra’s 27 van de stad
verwijderd zijn”.
„De blanken verveelden zich op zoo’n reis, doch de slaven niet minder. Deze
begonnen toen heel zachtjes, binnensmonds op een zingenden toon met
elkander te spreken, waarop de aangesprokene op den zelfden zingenden
toon antwoord gaf. De blanken vonden dit heel aardig en luisterden graag
naar het steeds luider wordende gezang, daar het de reis bekortte”.
„Van toen af werd er door het volk gezongen, en zoo is het melancholische
bootgezang onafscheidelijk verbonden aan een tocht op de Surinaamsche
rivieren”.
Evenals de negers der Goudkust bezitten de Surinaamsche negers een

schat van zinrijke spreekwoorden, die voor ieder voorval, voor iedere
omstandigheid des levens kunnen dienen en die blijk geven van een
hooge levensphilosophie.
Daar deze spreekwoorden er, evenzeer als de anansi-tori’s, toe kunnen

bijdragen, om het zieleleven van den neger beter te kunnen begrijpen
en te waardeeren, heb ik een aantal dezer spreekwoorden als
aanhangsel aan den [227]bundel Surinaamsche negervertellingen
toegevoegd. 28 (Zie Bijvoegsel I).
Ellis (El. a en b) deelt niet minder dan 120 aphorismen in zijne

meermalen aangehaalde werken mede, van welke ik de
merkwaardigsten, na de Surinaamschen, in het Bijvoegsel I heb
overgenomen.

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Diet and Diseases of Western Civilization 2-5

Improving the American Diet 2-9

NUTRITION UP CLOSE Food Types for Healthful Diets 2-11

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Where’s the Energy in Foods? 8-5

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