NUTR 132 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Osteoporosis, Phytochemical, Olive Oil
11 Jan 2019
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Nutr 132 chapter 1: nutrition, food choices, and health. What influences your food choices: flavor, texture, and appearance, early influences, routines and habits, marketing and advertising, restaurant dining, time and convenience, cost and economic, nutrition. Why are you so hungry: hunger (need) is a physical, biological drive to eat and is controlled by intentional body mechanisms, appetite (want) is a psychological drive to eat. Satiety is a feeling of satisfaction that temporarily halts over our desire to continue eating. The feeding center and the satiety center are in a region of the brain that helps regulate satiety. The science that links food to health and disease. Substance obtained from food that are vital for growth and maintenance of a healthy body throughout life. Risk factors: chronic diseases (heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, etc. , cancer, osteoporosis (porous and fragile bones due to low mineral density, obesity, stroke.
