FNN 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lacteal, Hydrogen Breath Test, Ulcerative Colitis

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Nutrition and Food
• Course: FNN 111
• Professor: Donna Barnes

Document Summary

Building blocks for growth and maintenance of body tissues. Q two mechanisms prompt us to seek food: Q hunger is a physiologic drive for food that occurs when our body senses that we need to eat. The drive is nonspecific a variety of foods can satisfy you. Q appetite is a psychological desire to consume specific foods. It is aroused when environmental cues stimulate your senses, triggering pleasant emotions and memories. Food is intimately connected to our sense of taste, but also stimulates our senses of: Q therefore, the 5 senses must be involved in (cid:498)eating(cid:499) food to gain the full experience of eating that (cid:498)certain food(cid:499). Then the experience remains as a memory. Q people commonly experience appetite in the absence of hunger. Q possible to have a physiologic need for food yet have no appetite called anorexia. The hyptothalamus prompts hunger in response to various signals.