Prof. Mcdonald today we are going to start our new section on nutrition and cover the aspects of food systems related to health, food access, food insecurity, and the impact of the food system on the environment. That is going to be the section we are going to cover for this last part of the course. Today we are going to start out by talking a little bit about nutrition and how we got to the point of what we know what to eat or what we should eat, and how that impacts the food system and drives what we do. This is all the information that is in Chapter Seven of your textbook. We are going to give a little bit of a background of the connection between food and health. How do we know we have this relationship . Where did it start . Where did it come from . We will talk about the discovery of nutrients and the role of the usda in how nutrition policy is started. We will do a whole other section on policy and nutrition, and cover it in great depth. We will talk about nutrient requirements,
Point of what we know what to eat or what we should eat, and how that impacts the food system and drives what we do. This is all the information that is in Chapter Seven of your textbook. We are going to give a little bit of a background of the connection between food and health. How do we know we have this relationship . Where did it start . Where did it come from . We will talk about the discovery of nutrients and the role of the usda in how nutrition policy is started. We will do a whole other section on policy and nutrition, and cover it in great depth. We will talk about nutrient requirements, what they are, where they came from. How the public is educated about nutrition and supplemental nutrition programs, with the whole idea of eventually getting to the idea of nutrition and chronic disease. Thats where we are headed with the rest of this section of the course, talking about obesity and other chronic diseases. Lets start with this idea. Youve probably all heard this. Hippocrate
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And better yet, hes teamed up with purity to give away a complimentary bottle to everyone watching us on the program today. Chris kilham, welcome to the show. Well, thanks so much, mark. Its always a pleasure to have a great conversation with you. Now, chris, most of us are just superbusy these days. We want to stay healthy, and quite frankly, its tough to do. Its daunting you know, all the different supplements out there. Everybody has jampacked schedules. Youve traveled all around the globe, chris. Youve learned about so many different natural remedies, so for. You know which ingredients are best. So, tell me, besides a good multivitamin and, of course, some fish oil for those omegas, maybe a few other things, talk about the three superhot nutrients youre so jazzed up about these days. The three supernutrients, as you called them, are, first, a concentrated green tea extract, then a turmeric root extract called curcumin, and lastly but certainly not least, an extract called resveratr
And some of us need health care some of the time but all of us need health and wellbeing all of the time. So im hoping that in the future we continue to talk about patientcentered care a tremendous advance and talk about personcentered care that brings the wellness and prevention themes into discussion. Also, populationcentered care. We have a country growing rapidly diverse by the day and many of you may know the projections by 2043 well be a majority minority country. Im the sop of korean immigrants so im very, very sensitive to those issues and we can talk about diversity not just by race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, level of disability, geography, income and other dimensions so we need health to care for all populations throughout the life course, talk about health and wellbeing, not just about health care, and im hoping that those are some of the themes that we can start integrating as we move the discussion forward. Great. I think were going to go to q a now and i ask you,