NUTR 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dietary Reference Intake, Diabetes Canada, Omega-3 Fatty Acid
19 Jul 2017
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The science that studies food and how food nourishes our body and influences our health. Good nutrition enables you to do your best occupational health (how functional you are) Nutrition has a role in promoting health and preventing or treating many diseases physical health. Food is central to many religious and spiritual ceremonies spiritual health. Food can provide comfort and can chemically effect emotional states emotional health. Food brings people together social health. Nutrients: some nutrients are essential, essential meaning it cannot be synthesized by your body and must be provided by the diet. We get our essential nutrients from our food choices, fortified foods (almond milk), natural health products, phytochemicals, zoo chemicals. Add vitamin or nutrient to processed food product fortified foods. Zoo chemicals animal based (red meat) There are 6 classes of nutrients including: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, water, vitamins, minerals. Nutrients that are needed by the body in large amounts.
