NUTR 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: B Vitamins, Paleolithic Diet, Mediterranean Diet
31 May 2018
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NUTR 200 Nutrition for Today 3/26/2018
MJ Gunnarson, MS, RD 1
Welcome to NUTR 200, Nutrition for Today!
Reading: p 1-6
Outline for today:
• Welcome
• Overview of essential nutrients
• Begin to think about importance of nutrition
Goals and Objectives
• Identify dietary sources of essential nutrients.
• Describe basic functions of macro- and micronutrients.
• Review diet and lifestyle factors associated with risk of chronic disease.
• Identify how dietary needs change over the life cycle.
• Complete a diet analysis using Diet Analysis Plus
Please refer to the class canvas site for detailed information about the syllabus.
Overview of essential nutrients
What is Nutrition?
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NUTR 200 Nutrition for Today 3/26/2018
MJ Gunnarson, MS, RD 2
The study of: Food
1. Food choices
2. Use of food-derived molecules—chemical components of the food
3. How food influences our health—actions and interactions
4. How food nourishes our bodies—ingestion, digestion, absorption, transport, utilization and
excretion
What are nutrients?
1. Chemical in foods
2. Used for energy, growth, maintenance, and repair of our tissues
What Are Essential Nutrients?
1. specific biological functions
2. our bodies cannot make enough
• Macronutrients – energy producing
• Micronutrients – not energy producing
What Are Nonessential nutrients?
• Can produce sufficient amounts
What is a diet?
1. An assortment of foods and beverages one consumes throughout the day
2. A dietary pattern describes the totality of the kinds foods and beverages typically
cosued…ad how uch ad whe
• Varies from person to person
• Can sometimes be categorizes
a. Mediterranean diet
b. DASH diet
c. Low carbohydrate diet
d. Low fat diet
e. Paleo diet
f. Vegetarian diet
Energy from nutrients
• Kilocalorie (Calorie) = Amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1kg of water
by 1oC
• Show on food label
Macronutrients in foods and in the body
• Required in relatively large amounts
• Can supply energy
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Document Summary
Review diet and lifestyle factors associated with risk of chronic disease. Identify how dietary needs change over the life cycle. Complete a diet analysis using diet analysis plus. Please refer to the class canvas site for detailed information about the syllabus. The study of: food: food choices, use of food-derived molecules chemical components of the food, how food influences our health actions and interactions, how food nourishes our bodies ingestion, digestion, absorption, transport, utilization and excretion. What are nutrients: chemical in foods, used for energy, growth, maintenance, and repair of our tissues. What are essential nutrients: specific biological functions, our bodies cannot make enough, macronutrients energy producing, micronutrients not energy producing. What are nonessential nutrients: can produce sufficient amounts. Energy from nutrients: kilocalorie (calorie) = amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1kg of water by 1oc. Macronutrients in foods and in the body: required in relatively large amounts, can supply energy.
