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,
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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