NUTR 1010 Lecture 2: Week 2 – Nutrition
19 Jul 2017
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Week 2 nutrition: many chain restaurants have nutrition information available on line, menus now include calories. Make it once in a while treat not weekly. Only eat half of the portion: share with friend, pack for later, have half packed up before you get your plate share 1 fesser or appetizer between friends choose 1 healthy part and 1 indulgence. Liver, gallbladder, pancreas, stomach, large and small intestine. Barrier function: preventing the absorption of harmful substances, anything that is toxic is protected against. Through the gut-brain axis: hyppthalamus is responsible for this, your stomach and intenstines send nerve signals to the hypothalamus of the brain. Lots of other hormones have a role also it is complicated and fascinating. Mechanical digestion break up food in the mouth chemical digestion enzymes introducing enymes. Biological catalysts they speed up reactions more quickly and efficently: facilitate chemical reactions in living things. You know it is an enzyme when: suffix: ase, examples: amulase, peptidase.
