NTRI 2000 Lecture 1: Ch. 1 notes
10 Jan 2019
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Nutrition: the science that links foods to health and disease; the science of the nutrients found in food and their interactions w our body. It includes the processes by which the human organism ingests, digests, absorbs, transports, and excretes (d. a. t. e. ) food substances. Influential lifestyle habits: alcohol, tobacco, heart disease, cancers, strokes, and diabetes are all directly related to nutrition, genetics and individuality, genetics and nutrition affect diseases to varying degrees, human genome, sequence of genes in human dna. Less nutrition related: down syndrome, hemophilia, sickle-cell anemia. Protein: micronutrients, needed in relatively small amounts in the diet. Inorganic substances: numerous functions in the body, nervous system function, water balance, structural systems, other cellular processes, not destroyed during cooking, major and trace (<100 mg/day) minerals, electrolytes na, k, cl, yield no energy (0 kcal, water. Types of studies: case study, may lead to possible avenues of research, epidemiological study, look for correlations in large populations.
