NUTR1023 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Veganism, World Health Organization, Food Security
NUTR1023 Health and Fitness Through Diet and Exercise
Summer Semester 2017
Module 1 - Food and Health (PART 1)
Objectives
At the end of this module students will be able to do the following:
• Broadly describe the relationship between food consumption and health.
• Describe different ways of studying the effect of nutrients, foods and dietary
patterns on health.
• Describe how scientific evidence is used to determine the effect of nutrients, foods
and dietary patterns on health at an individual and population level.
• Provide some examples of specific nutrients, foods and diet patterns that have a
positive or negative influence on health.
• Describe the individual, social, cultural and environmental factors that influence your
own food choices.
• Describe how different stakeholders can influence the foods and diet patterns of
communities and populations.
Study Tasks
1. Watch the video Understanding Food and Health and then read chapter 1 of the
Tapsell textbook before completing the following activities:
• List the disciplines from which we acquire nutrition knowledge.
Biochemistry, physiology, food science, epidemiology, sociology, anthropology
and economics
• Describe how food consumption influences our health.
Nutrient level: food component essential for life and growth. For example, folic
acid can reduce neural tube defects in pregnancy. However, the study of single
nutrients on their own can be problematic because we do not consume nutrients
in isolation (can arise to disagreements – eg. saturated fat intake).
Food level: organic materials that contain essential nutrients such as carbs, fats,
proteins, vitamins and minerals, which is ingested by an organism to produce
energy, stimulate growth and maintain life. Eating different types of food have
varying risks on many types of diseases.
Dietary Patterns: quantities, proportion, variety or combination of different foods
and beverages in diets and the frequency with which they are consumed. These
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Document Summary
Nutr1023 health and fitness through diet and exercise. Module 1 - food and health (part 1) Study tasks: watch the video (cid:858)understanding food and health(cid:859) and then read chapter 1 of the. Tapsell textbook before completing the following activities: list the disciplines from which we acquire nutrition knowledge. Biochemistry, physiology, food science, epidemiology, sociology, anthropology and economics: describe how food consumption influences our health. Nutrient level: food component essential for life and growth. For example, folic acid can reduce neural tube defects in pregnancy. However, the study of single nutrients on their own can be problematic because we do not consume nutrients in isolation (can arise to disagreements eg. saturated fat intake). Food level: organic materials that contain essential nutrients such as carbs, fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals, which is ingested by an organism to produce energy, stimulate growth and maintain life. Eating different types of food have varying risks on many types of diseases.
