NUTR 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Michelle Obama, Phytosterol, Pasteurization
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How you eat on your first date vs. how you eat with your buddies. Functional foods: foods that provide benefit beyond their nutrient contribution. Fortified foods: nutrients added to the food to be higher than they would be. Modified food: altered in a way to give benefits. Not just adding nutrients, but components that have health benefits. Nutrients: substances obtained from food and used in the body to provide energy and structural materials and to serve as regulating agents to promote growth, maintenance and repair. Must be consumed on a daily basis to maintain life and bodily processes! Failure to do so can cause health problems. Good source of energy, but last resort after carbs and fats. Too much carbohydrate or too much fat/alcohol = fat. Metabolism: how we create/move energy around the body. Excess are rearranged into storage compounds for later use. Little but of carbs, but primarily we store everything as fat.
