KINE 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Pattern Hair Loss, Breastfeeding, Calorie
Document Summary
Your legs and arms get shorter: when you are appraised to have an unhealthy lifestyle: your physiological age is higher than your chronological age. Provide energy, help build and maintain body tissues and help regulate body function: water. Can live 50 days or more without food but only a few days without water. Medium in which most chemical reactions take place. Recommended intake is about 2 liters, or 8 cups a day: macronutrients. 6 carbon ring attached together by no more than 2 rings: complex. Storage form is usually in complex form. Wheat: energy + fibre. (bran=outside, germ=inside, both are higher than inside) Bran part: left outside part, leave germ. Outside kernel=more fibre and protein within, healthier to grind whole thing up. Fiber is important because helps decrease spike of glucose in blood and helps colon, help more insulin to be released. Glycemic curve: glucose entering body, faster it goes up = higher glycemic index.