Author Archive: Joseph Dixon
Class on Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Last class I discussed glucose transport into the enterocyte and how it required sodium co-transport. Then later on I was talking about glucose transport into muscle and how it was regulated by insulin. Then a student asked if the transporter in muscle was the same transporter as in intestine. Wow! What a great question! Then …
Digestion and Absorption of Carbohydrates, September 18, 2015
In order to learn about nutrition in the body, we need to know about all the different metabolic processes. One can ask the questions, “Is sugar bad for you? If so, why?” As we will find out, these are very complex questions. And we need to know how glucose is handled by the body in …
Information on Food Labeling is on the Internet
Information on Food Labeling is easily found on the internet: http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/LabelingNutrition/ucm064928.htm
Who is in the Class? – In Class Survey on September 1 2015
Who is in the class? This information is important for me and important for you. It is good to see who the competition is. There may be more students of your major in the class than you thought. The class has more seniors than usual, but the seniors have little biology and chemistry in their …
What Part of Genius and Partnership is Required Reading
This year I have assigned a book I wrote as required reading. But I am only requiring that you read Part II. Cholesterol: What is it? One of the reasons I wrote this book was to explain what this mysterious molecule (cholesterol) is and how it is important in the body. I could have written …
First Class – September 1 2015
Welcome to Nutrition and Health, Fall 2015
How to cure obesity 
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