NFSC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Food Energy, Calorie, Intercultural Competence
20 Sep 2016
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Best foo for you supports growth and maintenance. Many old people suffer from diseases that could have been prevented with a better diet. Chronic diseases have a connection to poor diet. Heart disease, diabetes, cancer, dental disease, bone loss. Diet in uences long term health within a range set by genetic inheritance. Life choices such as physical activity or using tobacco or alcohol can improve or damage your health. When you eat animal tissues you are eating compounds of energy from the sun. Protein can also provide materials and working parts of body tissues. If you do not ingest them you will develop de ciencies. Elemental diets: life saving liquid diets of precise chemical composition for hospital patients. Feeding through the veins makes the stomach contract. Phytochemical: compounds that confer color taste and other characteristics of food. Bioactive foods: interact with the metabolic processes in the body. 3/4 of the population does not eat enough veggies.
