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Monday Blog during the Pandemic – April 20th – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2020

Lectures Coming Up:

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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 …

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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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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Tuesday Blog – Update on Class and Exam 2 – April 7th – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2020

Update on Class, Exam 2, and Assignments I will be uploading grades to the Sakai Grade book today and tomorrow.  The grades in Sakai are the official grades.  If there are any problems – please email me at joedixon709255@gmail.com Exam 2 – I just downloaded from TopHat the grades from Exam 2 – The mean …

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Class 21 – Nutrition and Health – Spring 2020 – April 7th – Chapter 11 – Start Fat Soluble Vitamins

Last time we did the water soluble vitamins.  Today we will start Chapter 11 – the Fat Soluble Vitamins.  In general, the Fat Soluble vitamins are more complex and harder to learn about.  Please read the Chapter and tune into the live Lecture tomorrow (Tuesday) at 12:35. The Lecture will be recorded but will not …

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