FNH 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: World Food Summit, Complete Protein, Overnutrition
14 May 2015
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Objectives for class #1- may 11, 2015: broadly described what is meant by malnutrition . Malnutrition is the lack of proper nutrition, otherwise known as undernutrition. Consuming insufficient calories, proteins, vitamins and minerals are the factors that contribute to undernutrition. My previous knowledge focuses on the politic institutions and history of a country. According to world food summit, food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Food insecurity occurs in the absence of food security. Natural disaster, climate change, vulnerable infrastructure, disease and epidemic, political instability, and war conflict are some contributing factors of food insecurity: define energy within a nutritional context. Within a nutritional context, energy is defined as the ability to do work. Identify and describe 3 energy requiring processes of human body.
