NTR 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Action Potential, Fluid Balance, Digestion
12 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Module 1 introduction: nutrients, 7 classes of nutrients. Primary sources of fuel for our body(brain, physical exercise) Animal or vegetable, whole grain, seeds, nuts, legume. Organic compounds---help to regulate body funcions---energy metabolism(releasing and using energy in macronutrients) Building and maintaining healthy bone, muscle and blood. Supporing out immune system---ight infecion and diseases---ensuring health vision. Rid body of harmful by products of metabolism. Ensure balance of luid in/outside of cells. Assist in regulaion of nerve impulses, body temperature, muscle contracion, nutrient transport excreion of waste products. Other components in food (photochemical---tomato: nutriion. Food: any sustenion body takes in and enable to simulates and grow. Nutrients: chemicals founds in foods that are criical to human growth and funcion. Non-essenial nutrients: body can make (vd sunshine: digesion and absorpion of food, transport of nutrients, and excreion of the end producion of metabolism. Funcion of individual nutrients and their interacions with one another in the body (vc--- enhance absorpion or not) nutrient intake.
