PSYC 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Red Meat, Insulin Resistance, Oxidative Stress
20 Sep 2017
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Nutrition, weight control and diet, exercise, and safety. 8 october 27: nutrition, components of food. Carbohydrates: simple and complex sugars that are major sources of energy for the body. This can include glucose (food in animal products), fructose (fruits and honey), sucrose (table sugar), lactose (milk products), and starch (plants) Lipids: fats providing energy for the body. Proteins: important in the body"s synthesis of new cell material. Vitamins: organic chemicals that regulate metabolism and functions of the body. They are used in converting nutrients to energy, producing hormones, and breaking down waste products and toxins. They can be fat soluble (dissolve in fats and are stored in the body"s fatty tissue) and water soluble (the body stores very little of these vitamins and excretes excess quantities as waste) Minerals: inorganic substances which is important in body development and functioning. This includes calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, iodine, and zinc.
