KINE 4020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pellagra, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Alcoholic Hepatitis
15 Aug 2020
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Nutrition is the science that studies food and how food nourishes our body and influences our health. Encompases how we consume, digest, metabolize and store nutrients and how these nutrients affects our body. Chronic diseases are diseases that come on slowly and can persist for years, often despite treatment (ex. Obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancers) Nutrigenomics seeks to uncover the links between our genes, environment and our diet. Health is a multidimensional process that includes physical, emotional, social, occupational, and spiritual health as stated by the world health organization (who) in. According to the world health organization, health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity. The primary link between poor nutrition and mortality is obesity (consequence of eating more calories than expected) Diseases in which nutrition plays some role / Diseases caused by nutritional deficiencies or toxicities /
