FNN 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nutrient, Scurvy, Joule

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Chapter 1 the role of nutrition in our health. Science that studies food and how food nourishes our body and influences our health. Encompasses how we consume, digest, metabolize and store nutrients and how these nutrients affect our body. Study of the factors that influence our eating patterns, making recommendations about the amount of each food type that we should eat. Chronic disease: disease that comes slowly and can persist for years, despite treatment. Cd includes obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and various cancers. Substances you take into your body are broken down and reassembled into your brain cells, bones, muscles all of your tissues and organs. Food you eat provides you with the energy it needs to function properly. Health is not just the absence of disease or infirmity. Health: multidimensional, lifelong process that includes physical, emotional, social, occupational and spiritual health. Our overall state of nutrition is influenced by how much energy we expend doing daily activities.

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