NUTR 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Degenerative Disease, Nutrient Density
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When you study nutrition, you will learn which foods serve you best, can work out ways to choose foods, plan meals, and improve your health and quality of eating. Chronic diseases mostly due to poor diet and nutrition. Nutrition: science that studies food and how food nourishes our body and influences our health; young science; most research on health and wellness done after 1900. Food: the plants and animals we consume. Be mindful of what you read: fact vs. fallacy. The foods you choose to eat can impact your long term health. Chronic disease: long term degenerative disease characterized by deterioration of the organs. Examples: cad (heart disease), dm (diabetes), htn (high blood pressure), cancer, obesity. By the time one is 65 years old, you will have eaten over 70,000 meals. Genetic influence can play a role in the development of chronic disease. Healthy diets can help one avoid chronic disease, despite having disease in family history.
