CHEM 181 Lecture Notes - Ciclosporin, Cytochrome P450, Oligosaccharide

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 181
• Professor: David Harpp

Document Summary

Hippocrates was the first to suggest that food had medicinal value. Thought lettuce cooled the body and good for passion; pigeon droppings were good for balding. Said flax is great for the intestines, but this is actually true high in fiber and omega-3 fats. Sylvester graham 1700s known as dr. No because he said no meat, spices, caffeine, alcohol or doctors! So the replacement for meat was the graham cracker made of whole wheat. Health food stores have foods that have no evidence supporting their claims. Natural: no legal definition but generally assumed that a food is natural if there are no additives. Assumed (falsely) that natural is healthier and safer. e. g. coniine in a plant. Organic: no additives, no chemical fertilizers , no synthetic pesticides and no genetically modified components. People buy organic for three reasons: for what it does not contain (pesticide residues, for what it does contain (more nutrients, environmental concerns.