WELL 175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Constipation, Thiamine, Diverticulitis
28 Dec 2016
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Diet: the habit of eating usual food and drinks, including the kind and amount of food prescribed for each person: unlike nutrition, diet is highly influenced by geography, cultures, likes, dislikes, and personal eating habits. Energy producing nutrients: three classes of essential nutrients supply energy, as well as other health benefits, protein, carbohydrates, fat. Non-energy producing nutrients: the non-energy producing nutrients category does not contain heat or provide calories and includes, vitamins, minerals, water. Omega-3 fatty acids: the most endmost double-bond of a polyunsaturated fat occurs three carbons from the end of the fatty acid chain, found primarily in non-shell fish. Omega-6 fatty acids: the endmost double-bond of a polyunsaturated fat occurs six carbons from the end of the fatty acid chains, found primarily in vegetable oils. Cholesterol is essential to good health, but needed is small and measured amounts. The liver produces about 15% of our cholesterol needs.
