ANT 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stereopsis, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Frugivore
31 Oct 2017
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A meal and proper manners are also relative. Meal- has multiple flavors, pre-planned, and must adhere to certain types of manners. How many meals a day and when you eat them vary among cultures. Meals are a part of the rhythm of our year as they mark time and there is a status level for consumption: Malnutrition- imbalance between nutrient body needs and nutrients body gets. Undernutrition is a type of malnutrition (short in some kind of vitamin or nutrient) People may be choosing or preparing food poorly that may take the nutrition out of the food. Undernutrition-consumption of too few calories or too little of any specific nutrient such as proteins, fat, or vitamins. Body begins to burn its stored fat and may lose up to half of their body weight. Body then begins to break down other tissues such as muscle tissue- cachexia.
