NUTR 3150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Molecular Clock, Telomere, Dietitian
10 Feb 2018
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Health and diseases of older adults >65 y. o. Functional health is based in levels of vison, speech, mobility, dexterity, feeling, cognition and pain. Mental health is more common for those older adults who live in institutions (80-90%) vs, 20% in the community. Aging of the population will accelerate over the next three decades. (more resources are needed, higher health care cost. ) Registered dietitian rd 30 mins per resident per month (how it is funded) Galen aging is due to changes in body humors. Roger bacon- (cid:862)(cid:449)ear a(cid:374)d tear(cid:863) theory, aging is the result of abuses and stress to the body system. Focus on aging as a result of damage to our bodies. 2) somatic mutation theory= environmental assaults cause damages in our dna, 3) error catastrophe theory= proteins accumulate in cells with age from transcription and translation errors in genes and rna. 4) free radical theory= variety of exposures to toxins overload system.
