LIFESCI 2N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Whey Protein, Brown Adipose Tissue, Soy Protein
2 Feb 2016
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Some nutrients are capable of being stored by the body in various forms and drawn upon when the food intake is not sufficient. Any material that provides the nutritive requirements of an organism to maintain growth and physical well being. Food: we use it, we lost it (as feces and urine), or we store it (energy) Norman borlaug (mar 25, 1914 sept 12, 2009) Invented a new strain of wheat (dwarf) which was disease resistant and generated high yields to combat world hunger: exported the new strain to central america, middle. Nutrition can prevent disease: diseases caused by nutrient deficiency: scurvy, goiter, rickets, diseases influenced by nutrition: chronic diseases such as heart disease, diseases in which nutrition plays a role: osteoarthritis, osteoporosis. Not directly affected but in long term nutrients plays a role. Why do we eat the way we do?we"re influenced: physiological hunger. Our instinct that strives hunger: sensory stimulation.
