Monthly Archives: January, 2021

Class 4 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2021 – Jan 29th – Chapter 3 of McGuire Text – DSHEA and What is Energy?

In Class 4 we went over the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), which I call the elephant in the Room! Much of nutrition and health is influenced by this law that was passed by Congress in 1994. DSHEA extended the term dietary supplement from known vitamins and minerals to include any kind of …

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Class 3 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2021 – Jan 26th – Chapter 2 of McGuire Text – The DRIs

In Class 3 we went over the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) presented in Chapter 2 of McGuire. They are the not the most exciting aspect of Nutrition, but in way they are a continuation of Foundation 1 of Nutrition – the discovery of the vitamins and nutrients. They represent over 100 years of work in …

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Class 2 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2021 – January 22nd – Chapter 1 in McGuire; Results of Class Survey

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Class 1 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2021 – January 19th – Introduction to Class

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