[ESS 3] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (74 pages long!)

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Body composition of healthy- weight men and women. Some storage capability for carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, minerals. Water and minerals do not yield energy. Human body needs small amounts energy yielding nutrients. Fat = 9 kcal / g (90 calories in 10 grams of fat) Food tracker assignment due thurs (submit by weds) Go down to food tracker when ready to track. Go to my reports (nutrient reports and meal summary) put in dates i tracked. Provide raw material for building tissue and regulating body activities. Almost every bodily actions require assistance from vitamins. But can be lost into cooking water, for example. Nutrition is the science that studies food and how food nourishes our body and in uences our health. Nutrition includes how we consume, digest, metabolize and store nutrients. Nutrition science studies the factors that in uence our eating patterns, make recommendations about what and how much we should eat.