LIFESCI 2N03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dietary Reference Intake, Coronary Artery Disease, Dietary Fiber

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Kinesiology the science of human movement; assessment of human movement and performance, its rehabilitation and management to maintain, rehabilitate or enhance movement and performance. Physiology the science of the functions of the living organism and its components and the chemical and physical processes involved. Nutrition taking in and utilization of food substances by which growth repair and maintenance activities in the body as a whole or in any of its parts are accomplished; ingestion, digestion, absorption and metabolism (assimilation) Food material that provides the nutritive requirements of an organism to maintain growth and physical well being. Nutrient substance in food that body can use to obtain energy, synthesize tissues or regulate physiological/physical functions: essential nutrient must be ingested because body cannot make (adequate amounts of) it, macronutrient, micronutrient. Results in immune response; accumulation causes premature aging, cancers. Exercise can produce o2: enzymes combat free radicals, effective antioxidants vitamin c, e, selenium by acting as an electron acceptor.

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