PHYSCI 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scurvy

• School: UCLA
• Department: Physiological Science
• Course: PHYSCI 5
• Professor: Esdin, J.

Document Summary

Typically sources of energy from plants and animals. Food is fuel for your body (atp) Lack of proper nutrition can cause diseases. For example, scurvy is a skin disorder which originally was thought to be caused by bacteria, but is caused by a lack of vitamin c in one"s diet. There are 2 main factors to being healthy and well: nutrition, physical activity. Nutrition is the more important of the two. Healthy people 2020 is a set of objectives with a 10 year goal of helping people to lead more healthy lifestyles.