Course Info

COURSE GOALS & FORMAT

Goals: To present the concepts and rationale of nutrition in the context of personal, cultural and world aspects of human nutrition. Because the course has no prerequisites, the scientific rationale is developed with a minimum of assumptions and scientific terminology.

Format: 3 hours lecture. Optional exam review meetings are scheduled. Students keep a personal diet diaryand make calculations of nutrient intake – Diet Project (see course book). Two midterm examinations and finalexamination. Grade based on 10% Diet Project; 50% for midterms; 40% for final examination. Letter grades and P/NP: bonus points and extra credit will also be available.

COURSE BOOK/WORKBOOK

This required course reader, Nutrition Basics for Better Health and Performance, (Applegate, L., Ed. 2, 2006 Kendall-Hunt) is available at the UC Davis Bookstore. ) The reader contains lectures, power point diagrams, charts, etc., practice exam questions, Diet Project assignment (Food Composition Tables included), and optional extra credit chapter quizzes. (Note: Used books will not have necessary forms, quizzes.)

EMAIL AND COURSE WEB PAGE

Exam information and other course related materials will be sent by e-mail. You will automatically be put on the NUT 10 mail list if you have a UC Davis e-mail address and are registered in the class. The course web page contains handouts, announcements, old exams, review session notes and other links to more nutrition information. If you do not have or utilize a ucdavis e-mail account, check the web page for class e-mail (under announcements/what’s new).

TOPICAL OUTLINE

Nutrients and establishing nutrient requirements; homeostasis; body composition and fluids; digestion.
Proteins and amino acids. Structure and state of body proteins. Requirements during the life cycle; effects of exercise. High protein diets – do they work?
Energetic basis of nutrition. Fiber and health. Properties of carbohydrates and fats; integration of metabolism. High protein/ low carb diets. Are fats and calories dangerous to your health? Fat substitutes and food sources of fats.
Metabolic regulation: How much body fat is unhealthy? What’s too thin? Regulation of food intake, eating disorders; diet and heart disease connection; culture, food choices and disease.
Minerals. Is calcium intake a problem? Water fluoridation. Anemia - who's at risk? Should we avoid salt?
Vitamins: how much is enough? Functions and dietary significance of the vitamins. Enrichment.
Are dietary supplements safe - are they necessary?
Diet and cancer - are you at risk?
Cultural influence on nutrition and health.
Nutritional effects of alcohol.
Nutrition and athletic performance.
Nutrition labeling/and dietary guidelines for optimal health.

SCHEDULE

April 1 : Organization. Course plan and objectives. Overview of nutrition: definitions. Homeostasis: body composition; body fluids; digestion. (Chapter 1)
April 3: Proteins and amino acids: the amino acid basis of protein composition. Essentiality of amino acids. Dynamic state of body proteins; turnover. (Chapter 2)
April 8: Four basic ideas of protein nutrition. Consequences of protein deficiency. Basic estimation of human protein requirements; factors affecting protein requirements. (Chapter 2)
April 10: Protein quality; meeting amino acid and protein requirements. Vegetarianism. Food sources of protein. (Chapter 2)
April 15: The energy basis of nutrition. Energy/calorie value of food. Estimating energy requirements. (Chapter 3)
April 17: Carbohydrates: structure, food sources, fiber: types & characteristics, metabolism. (Chapter 4)
April 22: MIDTERM I
April 24 : Fats: structure, essential fatty acids, food sources, hydrogenation of fats, fat replacements. (Chapter 5)
April 29: continue Fats: fat digestion, utilization and metabolism. (Chapter 5) Metabolism: integration of carbohydrate, fat and amino acid uses and disposal by the body.
May 1: Nutrition and cardiovascular disease: impact of fat, fiber, and other nutrients (Chapter 6)
May 6: Obesity and weight control; desirable weight; fat cell development; regulation of food intake; what is a "healthy weight"? Obesity causes and treatments. (DIET PROJECTS DUE) (Chapter 7)
May 8: Obesity treatment, fad diets; eating disorders. (Chapter 7)
May 13: Major minerals - calcium, phosphorus sodium and potassium. (Chapter 8)
May 15: MIDTERM II (DIET PROJECTS RETURNED)
May 20: Trace minerals (iron, zinc, iodine, fluoride) (Chapter 8). Vitamins: definitions and concepts. Vitamin C and B vitamins. The B vitamins (thiamin, niacin, folate, B-12). Food enrichment/fortification. (Chapter 9)
May 22: Water-soluble vitamins continued; The fat-soluble vitamins (A,D,E,K) (Chapter 9))
May 27: Fat-soluble vitamins continued; Dietary Supplements, regulatory and safety issues. (Chapter 9)
May 29: Metabolic and nutritional effects of alcohol. Empty calories. Nutrition and cancer (Chapter 10)
June 3: Nutrition and athletic performance. (Chapter 11)
June 5 : Dietary guidelines, MyPyramid. Nutrition facts--food labeling. (Chapter 12 + handout online)

CLASS HANDOUTS

Extra copies of handouts will be available from the Teaching Assistant's office, 1334 Meyer Hall. Some handouts are also available on the web at http://teaching.ucdavis.edu/nut10. To view some of the files below you may need the Adobe Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded and used for free.

EXAM REVIEW MATERIALS

If you are having problems downloading the review materials or past exams, try this: These are very large files because they are scans, so some systems may have trouble loading them directly into their browsers. To work around this problem, download the files to your hard drive and then double click on them to open them once the download is complete. To download a file in Netscape, right click on it, go to save link as, and save the file on your hard drive. To download a file in Internet Explorer, right click on it, go to save target as, and save the file on your hard drive. Remember where you saved the file so that you can open it later.

Midterm 1 Exam Key Spring 1997
Midterm 1 Review Session Notes (updated 10/12/2006)
Midterm 2 Review Session Notes (updated 10/12/2006)
Midterm 2 Exam Key Spring 1997
Final Exam Key Spring 2000
Final Review Slides

CHAPTER QUIZZES

PRACTICE QUIZZES

PODCASTS

Lecture Podcasts are now available online.

BULLETIN BOARD

Nutrition 10 information will be posted on the web site - announcements regarding exams, review session and bonus material.

Nutrition 10 questions: eaapplegate@ucdavis.edu

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