Author Archive: Joseph Dixon
Saturday Blog during the Pandemic – April 25th – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2020
Diet Assignment Grades were uploaded to Sakai this Morning! On the whole the diet reports were the best ever! Most students received a grade of 60/60. Marijke or I read every single one. If you received a bad grade, it was most likely due to the fact that you did not upload one of the …
Class 26 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2020 – April 24th – The Diet Assignment and Eating Disorders
What is left for the class? Marijke and I are very busy grading and discussing the assignments. On the whole they are excellent! For most of the students in class – you are able to keep up – so I want you to finish the regular curriculum for the class now: I want you to …
Monday Blog during the Pandemic – April 20th – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2020
Lectures Coming Up:
Class 24 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2020 – April 17th – Chapter 13 – Trace Minerals
There is a Live On-line Lecture during the official class time (12:35 pm) today. Please go to the Sakai Meetings Tool and you can join the meeting and see the lecture. The lecture will also be recorded! After Trace Minerals today we have finished the curriculum for the course. For the 4 classes that …
Where We Are – April 14th – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2020
Where are we in the Course? Actually, we are very close to the end! See the Synopsis: We just finished Major Minerals today, and on Friday I will go over the Trace Minerals! Here is an important Update on potassium. I said in class that potassium is extremely important for counter acting sodium. This is …
Class 23 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2020 – April 14th – Chapter 12 – Major Minerals
There is a Live On-line Lecture during the official class time (12:35 pm) today. Please go to the Sakai Meetings Tool and you can join the meeting and see the lecture. The lecture will also be recorded! I am extending the due date for the Exercise Assignment to Friday, April 17th, at 5 pm. …
Class 23 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2020 – April 14th – Chapter 12 – Major Minerals
On Tuesday during the regular class time, there will be a live lecture on the Major Minerals. Go to the Sakai Meetings Tool. Please read the chapter! I added the last Assignments for the Course on Sakai (Go to Resources – Folders M and N): These assignments are easy and can be done pretty …
Questions about the Exercise Assignment – April 12th Blog – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2020
Comments about the Exercise Assignment – The Exercise Assignment is for the purpose of getting you to think about your Total Energy Expenditure (TEE) -that different things contribute to it. Also I want you to think about how much energy you expend when you do an exercise, and how many Calories are in certain snacks. …
Class 22 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2020 – April 10th – Chapter 11 – Finish Fat Soluble Vitamins and Review all Vitamins
April 10th – There is a Live On-line lecture today at 12:35 pm in Sakai Meetings. We are going to finish the fat-soluble vitamins today and review all of vitamins today. Next class we will start the Major Minerals – so start reading Chapter 12 in the Textbook. Today, I put the grades for Test …
A Question about the Exercise Assignment – April 7th Blog – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2020
Here are some good questions (in one email) about the Exercise Assignment: Questions on April 7, 2020 Good evening Dr. Dixon, This is __________again from your Nutrition class. This time I have a couple of questions about the exercise assignment! For the NEAT activities calculations in the powerpoint questions are we just supposed to use …
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