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Nutrition and Public Health
What is food?
What is food chemistry?
What is the difference between Food Science and Nutrition?
What is Nutrition?
Who should have skills and knowledge of human nutrition?
How are wholesale and retail concepts flawed?
Can a person be given less food or survival necessities with an excuse of wholesale and retail price problems?
What will happen if a person's food is decreased?
What concept of law is applicable in case food or other survival needs are decreased for a person?
What is human nutrition?
What is the Essential Commodities Act?
What is the Essential Services Maintenance Act?
What do you know about human rights?
What should you know about human rights?
What are the basic human rights?
How many medical conditions in humans are the result of a deficiency of various dietary nutrients?
What are essential nutrients for a human being?
How could deficiency of various dietary nutrients be prevented?
What is a balanced diet?
What are the components of a balanced diet?
Who has the duty to prevent malnutrition?
What is food?

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells in an effort to produce energy, maintain life, or stimulate growth.

The listing of items included as foodstuffs include any substance intended to be, or reasonably expected to be, ingested by humans.

What is food chemistry?

Food Science deals with the production, processing, distribution, preparation, evaluation, and utilization of food. Food chemists work with plants that have been harvested for food, and animals that have been slaughtered for food. Food chemists are concerned with how these food products are processed, prepared, and distributed. For example, to address consumer demands, some food chemists are involved with finding fat and sugar substitutes that do not alter food taste and texture. Basic food chemistry deals with the three primary components in food: carbohydrates, lipids and proteins.

Carbohydrates make up a group of chemical compounds found in plant and animal cells. They have an empirical formula CnH2nOn or (CH2O)n. Since this formula is essentially a combination of carbon and water these materials are called “hydrates of carbon or carbohydrates”. Carbohydrates are the primary product of plant photosynthesis, and are consumed as fuel by plants and animals. Food carbohydrates include the simple carbohydrates (sugars) and complex carbohydrates (starches and fiber).

Lipids include fats, oils, waxes, and cholesterol. In the body, fat serves as a source of energy, a thermal insulator, and a cushion around organs; and it is an important component of the cell. Since fats have 2.25 times the energy content of carbohydrates and proteins, most people try to limit their intake of dietary fat to avoid becoming overweight. In most instances, fats are from animal products – meats, milk products, eggs, and seafood and oils are from plants – nuts, olives, and seeds. We use lipids for flavor, to cook foods, and to improve the texture of foods.

Proteins are important components of food. Every cell requires protein for structure and function. Proteins are complex polymers composed of amino acids. There are 20 amino acids found in the body. Eight of these are essential for adults and children, and nine are essential for infants. Essential means that we cannot synthesize them in large enough quantities for growth and repair of our bodies, and therefore, they must be included in our diet. Proteins consist of long chains of 100-500 amino acids that form into three-dimensional structures, their native state. When you change the native state of the protein, you change the three-dimensional structure, which is referred to as denaturation. Factors that cause denaturation include heating, acid, beating and freezing.

Vocabulary – Food Chemistry

Amino acids – contain carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and sometimes sulfur and serve as the monomers to make peptides and proteins. Amino acids have a basic structure that includes an amino group (NH2) and a carboxyl group (COOH) attached to a carbon atom. There are 20 amino acids found in the body.

Amylase – an enzyme (protein) in saliva that breaks down starch.

Antioxidant – substance that prevents or slows down oxidation; inhibits reactions promoted by oxygen; often used as a preservative.

Carbohydrate – a compound of carbon and water. Carbohydrates are the most abundant of all carbon-containing compounds, composing nearly three-fourths of the dry mass of all plant life on earth. It is the product of photosynthesis. Examples: glucose, sucrose (table sugar), starch, and cellulose.

Casein – a protein from milk.

Coagulation – transformation of a liquid into a soft or solid mass.

Denatured – changed from its natural state. In a denatured protein, its characteristics or properties have been altered in some way, by heat, chemicals, or enzymatic action, resulting in the loss of its biological activity.

Digestion – the chemical breakdown of large food compounds into smaller molecules that can be absorbed by the intestines in humans and animals. The smaller food molecules travel in the blood and are used by cells to make other components or produce energy needed by the body. Digestion begins in the mouth as salivary amylase begins to break down starch into simple sugars. It involves the hydrolysis of proteins to amino acids.

Emulsion –a property where two liquids are evenly spread out in each other, yet not dissolved in each other. Oil and water form the most common emulsions, and milk is an emulsion of butterfat in water. Emulsions are important in the production of foods that contain water and fat, such as mayonnaise or margarine. These products require the addition of an emulsifier, to stabilize food emulsions.

Enzymatic browning – a biochemical process in which fruit or vegetable tissues turn brown when exposed to oxygen. This process is catalyzed by polyphenol oxidase.

Enzymes – protein catalysts, which control specific chemical reactions in living systems (plants and animals). Enzymes are active at low concentrations. Page 3 of 7

Ester bonds – bonds between fatty acids and glycerol molecules.

Fatty acid – building blocks of fats, having hydrogen atoms attached to chains of carbon atoms and a oxygen containing carbonyl group (-C=O). Fatty acids are found in every cell of the human body.

Glycerol – backbone for fatty acid molecules.

Glucose – a simple sugar (C6H12O6) and the primary source of energy for all mammals and many plants. It is also known as dextrose, grape sugar, and corn sugar. It is about half as sweet as table sugar.

Hormones – substances that can influence enzyme action, metabolism, and physiology.

Insoluble – not capable of being dissolved. Fats are insoluble in water. On the other hand, sugar is soluble in water unless more is added than what a certain volume of water can dissolve, which means that the solvent has become saturated with sugar.

Lecithin – emulsifier found in eggs and soybean oil.

Lipids – compounds commonly of fatty acids and glycerol. Lipids are the most efficient source of fuel in living things. Food lipids are divided into 1) fats, which usually come from animal sources and are solid at room temperature; and 2) oils, which usually come from plant sources and are liquid at room temperature. Another type of lipid is cholesterol. Cholesterol is a sterol compound made by animals and is used to make certain steroid hormones in the body. It is not found in plants.

Melanin – any of a group of brown or black pigments occurring in plants and animals.

Organic – related to the branch of chemistry dealing with carbon compounds. Though all living things contain carbon and thus are considered to be organic, other carbon-containing compounds have been produced in the laboratory.

Peptide bonds – covalent bonds between two amino acid molecules.

Peptides – short chains of amino acids.

Photosynthesis – process by which a plant uses water and carbon dioxide to produce a simple sugar (glucose) and oxygen. Plants store excess sugar as starch.

Polymers – contain ten or more monomers. Starch is a polymer of the monomer glucose. A protein is a polymer of amino acids.

Polyphenol oxidase – a copper-containing enzyme, also called phenolase, that catalyzes the oxidation of phenolic compounds contained in plant tissue. Example – it speeds the process of browning of cut apple slices.

Polyunsaturated – fatty acids that have multiple double bonds.

Proteins – complex polymers composed of amino acid monomers. Some examples of protein are muscle, hair, skin, hormones, and enzymes.

Rennin – enzyme used to make cheese.

Shortening – crystalline form of a solid fat.

Soluble – capable of being dissolved. Gases or solids that dissolve are called solutes, while the liquid that does the dissolving is called the solvent. Like substances are usually soluble in like solvents.

Starch – a polymer of glucose. It is a complex carbohydrate found in green plants and an important source of energy for animals and humans. During the day, green plants store energy by converting glucose to starch. At night, plants convert starch back to glucose for growth.

Triacylglycerol - a lipid compound consisting of three fatty acids linked to one glycerol molecule. This compound is an important source of energy for the human body.

Vegetable oils – come from plants like corn or soybeans and are an important source of polyunsaturated fats.

What is the difference between Food Science and Nutrition?
Food Science is the study of the biological, chemical, and physical nature of food components-and the technology to bring safe and wholesome foods from farm to fork. Nutrition is the study of how and why those foods (and food components) influence health and wellness.

What is Nutrition?
Nutrition is the science of food, the nutrients in foods and how the body uses those nutrients. It includes the process of ingestion, digestion, absorption, metabolism, transport, storage and excretion of those nutrients. It also includes the environmental, psychological and behavioral aspects of food and eating.

The six classes of nutrients include: carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals and water.

Today scientists have also identified compounds in plant foods called phytochemicals. Although not technically identified as a nutrient, these compounds have been associated with a variety of health benefits when consumed as part of a balanced diet. Examples of phytochemicals include lycopene (the red pigment in tomatoes), isoflavonoids in soybeans and capsacin (the flavor compounds in hot peppers). Research of these compounds are showing phytochemical are an important contribution to a healthy diet.

Who should have skills and knowledge of human nutrition?
Medical doctors, head of the state, administrators, public health workers, and workers in various departments.

How are wholesale and retail concepts flawed?
A human being has basic human rights of food, clothing, health care, transportation, security, education, consumer goods, and communication.
This has to be mobilized from the state system.
A person more than 18 years of age needs consumable food having at least 2,000 calories from carbohydrates, proteins, fats, etc. The state has to arrange this for every resident of the state.

Can a person be given less food or survival necessities with an excuse of wholesale and retail price problems?
No.

What will happen if a person's food is decreased?
Starvation.
Malnutrition.
Other issues.

What concept of law is applicable in case food or other survival needs are decreased for a person?
Violation of essential commodities act.
Violation of basic human rights.
Failure to provide necessities.
Deprivation of rights under the color of law.
Intentional enforced harms.

Less food, no food or survival needs is a medical and administrative emergency.

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We are expected to have discussion on the topic of nutrition.
Here is a presentation from me to you.

What is human nutrition?

Human nutrition involves consumable carbohydrates, fats, dietary fiber, minerals, protein, vitamins, and water that can be digested and metabolized by human beings necessary to support life.

How many medical conditions in humans are the result of a deficiency of various dietary nutrients?

There are more than 24 human medical conditions caused by a deficiency of various dietary nutrients.

Anemia (dietary iron deficiency)

Beriberi (dietary vitamin B1 deficiency)

Cracking of skin and corneal unclearation (dietary Vitamin B2 deficiency)

During development, deficiencies in myelinization of the brain (dietary cholesterol deficiency)

Cardiovascular disease (dietary omega-3 fats deficiency)

Failure to thrive (dietary nutritional deficiency)

Famine (widespread scarcity of food leading to malnutrition or starvation)

Growth retardation (dietary zinc deficiency)

Goiter, hypothyroidism (dietary iodine deficiency)

Hypertension (dietary magnesium deficiency)

Hemorrhage (dietary vitamin K deficiency)

Hypokalemia, cardiac arrhythmias (dietary potassium deficiency)

Hyponatremia (dietary sodium deficiency)

Kwashiorkor (dietary protein deficiency)

Keshan disease (dietary deficiency of selenium)

Low sex hormone levels (dietary saturated fat deficiency)

Malabsorption of fat-soluble vitamins (dietary fat deficiency)

Marasmus (dietary deficiency of nearly all nutrients, especially protein and carbohydrates; marasmus occurrence increases prior to age 1)

Mental retardation (appearing before adulthood)

Nervous disorders (dietary vitamin E deficiency)

Osteoporosis (dietary calcium deficiency)

Pernicious anemia (dietary vitamin B12 deficiency)
Pellagra (dietary niacin deficiency)

Rickets (dietary vitamin D deficiency)

Scurvy (dietary vitamin C deficiency)

Starvation (severe deficiency of nutrients intake)

Tetany (dietary calcium deficiency)

Weight loss (dietary nutritional deficiency)

Xerophthalmia and night blindness (dietary Vitamin A deficiency)

Dehydration (dietary deficiency of fluid in human body)

Some consider dehydration as separate entity.
Water is an essential component of human nutrition.

What are essential nutrients for a human being?

There are seven major classes of nutrients: carbohydrates, fats, dietary fiber, minerals, protein, vitamins, and water.

How could deficiency of various dietary nutrients be prevented?

Awareness of essential commodities act.
Awareness of existence of medical conditions due to dietary nutritional deficiency.
Awareness of the duty of state administrations to take care of basic human needs of all residents, including their nutrition.
Annual health assessment by competent primary health care providers.
Consume a balanced diet every day.
Enhance various essential department in every state, like state department of food and supplies, state department of human services, state department of agriculture and food sciences, state department of health, and other similar departments.
There are at least 22 essential departments in every state.
Balanced diet

What is a balanced diet?
What are the components of a balanced diet?
1. Carbohydrates: these provide a source of energy.
2. Proteins: these provide a source of materials for growth and repair.
3. Fats: these provide a source of energy and contain fat soluble vitamins.
4. Vitamins: these are required in very small quantities to keep you healthy.
5. Mineral Salts: these are required for healthy teeth, bones, muscles etc..
6. Fibre: this is required to help your intestines function correctly; it is not digested.
7. Fluids
8. Balanced Diets: we must have the above items in the correct proportions.
Glycolysis
Citrus Acid Cycle
Multiple Choice Questions
Let's examine agriculture.
Decades ago, there used to be ploughs or people used shovels and similar tools for agriculture. This used to take lots of labor and time as well.
Many people were involved in this type of employment.

Nowadays, there are tractors.
Work done by thousands of people can be and is completed by single tractor.
A single tractor has replaced thousands of people.

Work done by thousands of people can be and is completed by a single machine or machines. Work done by thousands of people can be and is completed in a comparatively shorter time period.
Fewer people and more technology is at work.

Will the tractor operator exclude others from harvest?
Should the tractor operator exclude others from harvest?
Will those in control of machines exclude others from harvest?
Should those in control of machines exclude others from harvest?
Is it justified?
No.
Should the tractor operator exclude others not in the agriculture field from harvest?
No.

Are people who have been replaced with machines unemployed? Or are they skilled employees to be utilised as per need of economy?
Who has the duty and responsibility to redirect their skill, knowledge, and experience?
The same is true in other types of industries.
Machines have and can replace thousands of workers.
That doesn't mean those workers are going to be excluded from harvest.

These are natural resources.
These natural resources have to be utilised and exploited to their capacity while using the latest advances in science and technology.
Their products have to be distributed fairly, equally, and uniformly.
Their products have to be distributed fairly as per consumer affairs and public distribution system.

How much food or nutrition does a human being need per day?

The answer to this question depends on the age of the person, level of activity, air temperature, humidity, and other factors.
Normal Diets

Diet in Infancy
Diet in Childhood
Diet in Adolescence
Diet in Pregnancy & Lactation
Diet in Adulthood
Diet in Old Age
Diet for High Blood Pressure
Diet for Diabetics
Diet for Weight gain
Diet for Cholesterol
Diet for Stress,Anxiety
Diet for Polycystic ovaries
Diet for Heartburn
Diet for Menopause
How much water should you drink each day?

People more than 18 years of age should drink at least 1.5 to 2 liters of water daily.

Water consumption for children

How much drinking water do children need every 24 hours?
How much formula?

For the first 6 months your baby should be taking 150-200 mls of formula per 1 kg (or 70-90 mls per lb). For example, a baby weighing 5 kg should take 750-1000 mls in 24 hours (150/200 mls multiplied by 5). It is normal for some babies to take slightly more than this, some a little less.

Commonly, babies have 6-7 feeds every 24 hours - researchers/pediatrician recommend you feed your baby whenever she/he is hungry.

About 20 minutes is the right length of time for a feed but some babies are slow feeders and others fast. A slow feed could last up to one hour and a fast feed may be finished in 10 minutes. The flow of milk from the teat and wind are two factors that may affect your baby's feeding.

Formula will provide a healthy baby with all the fluid needed in the first 6 months of life. It's only when your baby is unwell or very thirsty e.g. during hot weather, that additional drinks are needed. For a thirsty baby, cooled, boiled tap water is the best drink to offer. An unwell baby with diarrhoea needs to be given an oral reyhdration solution.

What nutrients are in infant formulas?

Baby formulas contain energy-providing nutrients (protein, carbohydrate and fat) as well as water (an essential nutrient) and appropriate vitamins and minerals. The energy nutrients provide the calories necessary to maintain bodily functions, support activity, and promote growth. They also support desirable immune functions as an outcome of overall nutrition. Protein provides the building blocks necessary to form and repair tissue. Vitamins and minerals are essential in the metabolism of energy nutrients. Minerals play an important part in bone structure, regulate certain body functions and, together with water, help maintain the body's water balance.

Standard iron-fortified baby formulas are nutritionally complete foods for normal infants. When a physician recommends a formula not fortified with iron, another source of iron should also be recommended. A physician may recommend fluoride supplementation to infants at least 6 months of age only if the water supply is severely depleted of fluoride.
Here are further guidelines.

How can you tell if children are dehydrated?

If your child has fever, diarrhea, or vomiting, or is sweating a lot on a hot day or during intense physical activity, watch for signs of dehydration, which can include:

* Irritability (more crying, fussiness with inconsolability)

* No tears when the child cries

* Dry or sticky mucous membranes (the lining of the mouth or tongue)

* Lethargy (less than normal activity)

* Lack of urine or wet diapers for 6 to 8 hours in an infant (or only a very small amount of dark yellow urine)

* Lack of urine for 12 hours in an older child (or only a very small amount of dark yellow urine)

* Fatigue or dizziness in an older child

* Sunken eyes

* Sunken soft spot on the front of the head in babies (called the fontanel)

Here are further guidelines.
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