HLSC 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Threonine, Lysine, Baked Potato
17 Sep 2016
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In the course of your lifetime, you will spend about six years eating about 70 000 meals and 54 metric tons of food. What you eat can have profound effects on your health and well- being. Your nutritional habits help determine your risk of major chronic diseases, including heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes. Meat, fish, poultry, eggs, milk products, legumes, nuts. Form important parts of muscles, bone, blood, enzymes, some hormones, and cell membranes; repair tissue; regulate water and acid-base balance; help in growth; energy. Minerals to cells in brain, nervous system, and blood; and cereals), vegetables, milk. Abundant in fruits, vegetables, and grains; also found in meat and dairy products. Found in most food groups insulate, support, and cushion organs; provide medium for absorption of fat-soluble vitamins. Promote (initiate or speed up) specific chemical reactions within cells. Help regulate body functions; aid in growth and maintenance of body tissues; act as catalysts for release of energy.
