NTDT200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Healthy People Program, Nutrient Density, Dietary Fiber
15 Mar 2016
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Daily food choices: beneit health, harm health and can cause chronic disease. Personal preference, habit, ethnic background, social interaction, availability, convenience and economy, positive and negative association. Nutrition and health beneits (functional and fortiied foods) Vitamins and minerals, human body needs small amount. Most abundant nutrient in human body and food : water. Body uses macronutrients bonds between the nutrients then atoms break and energy is released and can then be used or stored. Provide raw material for building tissue and regulating body activity. 12 organic vitamins each have a special role to play facilitate energy release (almost every bodily action requires assistance from vitamins) Other minerals are environmental contaminants ex:] lead. Environment for nearly all body processes water indestructable but can be lost into cooking water for example. 2/11/16 scientiic method: systematic process research studies: controls ex:] randomization sample size. Experimental studies lab-based animal studies lab-based in vitro studies. Positive correlation : not necessarily a desired outcome.
