Foods and Nutrition 1021 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Food Policy, Veganism, Comfort Food

• School: Western University
• Department: Foods and Nutrition
• Course: Foods and Nutrition 1021
• Professor: Jennifer Broxterman

Document Summary

They provide energy, serve as building material, help maintain or repair body parts, and support growth. The nutrients include water, carbohydrates, fat, protein, vitamins, and minerals malnutrition - any condition caused by excess or de cient food energy or nutrient intake or by an imbalance of nutrients. Dna - an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleic acid, the molecule that encodes genetic information in its structure genes - units of cell"s inheritance, made of the chemical dna. Each gene directs the making of one or more proteins, which perform important tasks in the body nutritional genomics - the science of how nutrients affect the activities of genes and how genes affect the activities of nutrients. Also called molecular nutrition of nutrigenomics energy - the capacity to do work. The energy in food is chemical energy; it can be converted to mechanical, electrical, heat, or other forms of energy in the body. Food energy is measured in calories organic - carbon containing.