Author Archive: Joseph Dixon
Class 7A – Nutrition and Health – What We Went Over About Carbohydrates
In today’s class (Tuesday, Feb 12, 2019 – lots of hail, snow and rain)) we went over three things: Reviewed Digestion of starch and absorption of glucose. Then we went over how glucose is distributed throughout the body. See presentation on Blackboard. We talked glycemic Index and what are the factors that affect it. We …
Class 7 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2019 – Chapter 4 of McGuire – Finish Carbohydrates
There is class today, but attendance will not be taken and the lecture will be gone over very slowly and repeated on Friday for the most part. So if you have a long commute, don’t worry about attending. If you are near campus, come to lecture if you feel up to it. LOOK OVER THE …
Class 6 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2019 – Chapter 4 of McGuire – Start Carbohydrates
Salad Friday – similar to last week: Low Carbohydrate vs Low Fat for weight loss: This article can be read for free at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5839290/ The most interesting part of this study is shown in the next figure. On both diets, people lost weight, people stayed at the same weight, and some people even gained …
Class 5 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2019 – Chapter 3 of McGuire – First Half – Energy
Why is there a Photo of a fire on the screen? Warning: First Exam is on Tuesday, February 19th Today: First TopHat Quiz (On Energy) – Quiz 1 How I will Handle TopHat grades:
Class 4 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2019 – Diet Assignment and Start Chapter 3 of McGuire
First – the Salad for Salad Friday – February 1, 2019; This salad was put together at the Harvest restaurant in the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health
Class 3 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2019 – Chapter 2 of McGuire and Beerman
Photos of the Blackboard Presentation on 1-25-2019:
Class 2 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2019 – Chapter 1 of McGuire and Beerman
Note about Order of Topics: I follow the book very closely throughout the semester. The first two chapters of the book are fairly light and concern general information about Nutrition and how the Dietary Standards (Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs)) were created and why. I add some information about the Foundations of Nutrition, which were developed …
Class 1 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2019 – Welcome to Class
Welcome to the Class: I wanted to say I am looking forward to class tomorrow. Every semester I try to do something different to make the class better. This semester I added TopHat to the class so as to get immediate feedback and to better track attendance. In order to makeup for some of the …
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