NFS284H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Disaccharide, Nutrient Density, Stanol Ester
16 Oct 2016
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= the science that studies of the interaction b/w human health and food. = survey of health info including food intake. Food groups: grain products: 5 servings, milk and alternatives: 2 servings, vegetables and fruits: 5 servings, meat and alternatives. Chronic disease: develops slowly and lasts a long time. Good nutrition can reduce your risk of chronic disease. Essential nutrients: essential to human life, must be provided by the diet; can not be biosynthesized in the body in sufficient quantities, minerals have to get from the diet from the environment, we cannot make those. If absent from diet deficiency symptoms/ illness death (usually acute, that means can develop in a. Test if a particular type of nutrient is essential: add the nutrients to the diet, if the deficiency symptom disappear essential to the human life relatively short time) Or, add nutrient to diet deficiency symptoms disappear. = carbs + lipids (dietary fat/fat) + protein aa.
