HUN2201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Health Equity, Health Promotion, Food Policy
Document Summary
The science of nutrition: linking food, function, and health. Chapter 1: what is nutrition, food is the plants and animals we eat, nutrition is the science that studies food: Includes identifying how we consume, digest, metabolize, and store nutrients. Includes studying our eating patterns and making recommendations. Addresses food safety, food production, and global food policy. How does nutrition contribute to health: proper nutrition supports wellness. Wellness is more than the absence of disease. Includes physical, emotional, social, occupational, and spiritual health. Is a multidimensional, lifelong process: two key components of wellness: How does nutrition contribute to health: nutrition is part of the u. s. national health promotion and disease prevention plan. Healthy people (revised every 10 years: healthy people is developed by experts under the direction of the u. s. dept. of health and human services. Help people attain higher quality and longer lives, free of preventable diseases, disability, injury and preventative death.
