FCS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tuberculosis, Medical Nutrition Therapy, Developed Country
23 Aug 2016
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Nutrition: the science of how living organisms obtain and use food to support all the processes required from their existence: digestion and absorption, metabolism and regulation, impact on health. Quality of life: immediate health: acute; the food we eat directly impacting our health by giving us energy and relief, risk of disease: chronic; the long term effects of eating like diabetes and high cholesterol. Controversy: as humans, we hold certain foods in a hopeful light, even thinking they are. Magic" such as carrots helping eyesight and milk creating super strong bones: we also have the popular press which labels certain foods very controversially such as carbohydrates or red meat. Deficiencies: obesity is the problem of having an abundance of food, deficiencies is the opposite problem, not enough food leading to malnutrition. These nutrient deficiencies were a huge problem 100s of years ago.
