BPK 143 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Corn Syrup, Ancel Keys, Glycemic Load
2 Mar 2013
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Main reasons for increased life expectancy are: improved sanitation, improved food safety, antibiotics. Life expectancy for the average american could decline by as much as five years unless aggressive efforts are made to slow rising rates of obesity. Quantity and quality of food are important. Nutrition- are you confused yet: food is complex. We don"t know the thousands of compounds that occur in natural foods. Even one type of food grown in a different area has different chemical properties: the interaction between food and physiology is complex. The way food and human physiology interact is incredibly complicated, and affects hormonal balance how your phenotype is expressed: exercise affects the food/physiology interaction. Because exercise affects hormonal balance, how you exercise (or if you do not exercise at all) is a huge factor in the way your body responds to food intake. Many good epidemiological studies have been conducted on sedentary populations.
