NUTR 4090- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 131 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Nutrition
• Course: NUTR 4090
• Professor: Doug Goff

Document Summary

*readings are required will be tested don"t need to memorize the facts in the papers they are just an expansion of the knowledge from the course. There is a difference between healthy eating and medicine which were originally confused: diana cardens wrote let not thy food be confused with thy medicine . Macronutrients: carbs, sugars, starches- source of glucose, provide energy, lipids- 2 essential fatty acids, provide e, proteins- 9 essential aa. Micronutrients: vitamins- 13 essential, minerals- 17+ essential. Who tells us what to eat: government develops regulations and guidelines, health canada is an organization that we pay with our tax $ to take this info from the government and make good recommendations to. Canadians: usda- provide the same guidance to americans. Example of functional phytochemicals: carotenoids, curcumin, flavonoids, indole- carbinol, isothiocynateslignans, phytosterols, resveratrol, soy isoflavones, these would be the components in the food that have demonstrated physiological effects beyond basic nutrients themselves.