FNN 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Joule, Scurvy, Malnutrition
16 Oct 2016
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Chapter one: the role of nutrition our health. The science that studies food and how food nourishes our body and influences our health. It includes how we consume, digest, metabolize, and store nutrients and how these nutrients affect our body. It involves studying factors that affect eating pattern, the amount of each food that should be eaten, maintaining food safety. Early nutrition research was focused on linking together nutrient deficiencies and illness. Nutrition research objective: supporting wellness and preventing and treating chronic diseases. The substances taken in by the body are broken down and reassembled into brain cells, bones, muscles(all of the tissues and organs) Pellagra is characterized by scaly skin rashes. Goldberg discovered that it is caused by a niacin deficiency (brewer"s yeast prevented and treated it and is high in vitamin b) Nutrition is one of several factors contributing to health. Health: a multidimensional lifelong process that includes physical,emotional, social, occupational, and spiritual health.
