NURS 2090 Lecture Notes - Kwashiorkor, Water–Electrolyte Imbalance, Lipoprotein
16 Apr 2013
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Nutrition: ingestion and utilization of nutrients for energy. *nutrition is as (if not more) important as pharmaceuticals for our health and healing. Essential nutrients: must be consumed regularly in diet as body is unable to synthesis quantities needed. Metabolism allows chemical reactions that: produce heat and maintain body temp, conduct neuronal impulses, contract muscle. Hippocrates said let food be thy medicine; however, we have changed the way we look at health. We no longer look at optimal nutrition, but rather medications. Dr"s nowadays get very little education on nutrition. There is a lot of money to be made, by having ppl sick. By the time it gets to you, it has travelled 2000 km. If you are lucky, you are getting at least 40% of what you need. Foods are being genetically modified (which we know nothing about), the fertilizer nowadays has (p, k, n); however it actually needs 52 other types which are missing.
