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I want to start a nutrition plan and it says to eat fish at dinner time. I don’t eat any other kind of meat that’s not chicken, can I change it to chicken?
If you absolutley cannot have fish either for a medical reason then you probably shouldn’t have it.
If you haven’t tried it though I really think you should, it has so many healthy vitamins.
You could substitute it for chicken but you would be losing precious nutrition.
I am interested in holistic nutrition and human anatomy and physiology but I do not want to work directly with people. I also do not want to work in an office sitting in front of a computer all day. Is there a career these areas could apply to? Is there a combination of short courses I could take or would this require a BSc?
Interesting! I never considered osteopathy. I will look into it. Thanks.
Working at a Osteopathic Hospital would fit in to your criteria.
Checkout job opportunities there.
With all the obesity and eating disorders going on, it seems like maybe we’re not educated about nutrition and exercise enough to eat healthy .I know for a fact that they didn’t teach us squat about nutrition or weight loss in public school, which is in my opinion a major concern.
But we already have good, healthy food that you can grow in your backyard : fruit and veggies 
Thanks, I didn’t know about Michelle Obama!! That is an awesome thing she is doing.
I think it’s the FDA’s and parents’ fault, really. They try to get schools to serve healthier lunches (which, by many standards, are still not very healthy.) Additionally, excessive attention is paid to Calories, while very little is paid to what TYPE of Calories are being consumed (i.e. protein, carbohydrates, fats).
The harm of fat is also grossly overestimated, and importance of avoiding simple carbs hardly mentioned at all (most people don’t know that sugars are simple carbs, let alone that many of their favorite non-sugary foods also contain simple carbs).
I asked my school why we can’t be served whole milk, considering that fat-free milk contains as much as 10 more grams (roughly 2.5 teaspoons) more sugar than whole milk. They said that they have no control over what they feed us.
The other day, we had a school-wide (girls and boys separated) assembly (I’m a senior in high school), where we were handed a tiny flyer telling us how to "eat healthily." It involved a number of moronic comments, including living a low-fat lifestyle with NO MENTION of sugar.
I admit that not everyone has the capacity or desire to understand how their bodies function, but everyone should at least be given the opportunity. Even health classes don’t give any justice to a truly proper diet. They make it sound as if you can eat as much of your favorite desert as you’d like, as long as you get your servings of fruits and vegetables, and DON’T EXCEED 2,000 CALORIES.
I can say for a fact that my base metabolic rate is around 2,500 Calories, and that is just the amount I need to SURVIVE with zero exercise while maintaining the same weight.
With the amount of exercise I do (1 hour a day, roughly), I need at least 3,000 Calories a day. Factor in my desire to gain muscle, and I need to eat as much as 4,000 Calories a day.
Education does nothing for people that have not opened themselves up to learning. People need to have a desire to read about it, learn about it, and change their lifestyles.
A large part of it is also parents and how they feed their children. I know kids who have been raised on hamburgers and cheap food, who now think that they can eat McDonalds for the rest of their lives because they haven’t gotten pudgy at the age of 17 or 18.
I also know kids who claim that cigarettes increase their metabolisms to the extent that they can eat significantly more. I think much hope is lost, and we’d frankly be better off with many of these idiots dying. If someone doesn’t respect his or her body to that great of a degree, I doubt the person’s capacity of respecting anyone else.
To finish off on a completely misanthropic and cynical note, some people really should not breath.
How does the lack of nutrition labels on fast foods and restaurant menus affect the African-American community SPECIFICALLY?
What questions do you have about obesity and African Americans?
Hello. Most fast food restaurants have their nutritional information available on the Web. But the time to look it up, the interest in doing it and the access to a computer would all be issues…
The real question is why don’t more families cook…food expense has a lot to do with it but buying fast food is actually more expensive, even if you buy the Williams 8 piece dark or McDonald’s chicken nuggets all the time….
Another issue is simply knowing how to cook and teaching your children to like cooked food.
Interestingly enough, this is becoming a problem all over the developed world, and not just with Black people. Even Japanese mothers have trouble somtimes keeping their kids away from the fast food….
People need to grow some food and herbs, cook, and eat what they cook….
This would help obesity issues, immensely. Oh and being active and making exercise a PRIORITY, the way Mrs. Obama and my family do…
If someone could give me the whole rundown on these banana nutrition I would appreciate it.
A dehydrated banana would be cut about a half inch and put in a food dehydrator.
reulaer bannas are helther!
There’s a follow-up question after this: What is the comparison and contrast between the structures, nutrition and reproduction of the 5 kingdoms ( Monera, Protoctista, Fungi, Animalia, Plantae)?
Please reply A.S.A.P. Thanks for helping.
The five-kingdom classification of organisms
Nomenclature: Naming of organisms
Binomial: Biological name of an organism → Genus species
Taxon: Set of organisms within a category / Taxonomy / Study of biological classification
Different levels of taxons: SPECIES, GENUS, FAMILY, ORDER, CLASS, PHYLUM, KINGDOM
Most number of species on right
Most similar organisms on left
Unicellular: Single cell; Colonial: Groups of cells; Multicellular: Many cells
Autotrophs produce energy from inorganic sources
Phototrophs from photosynthesis/sunlight
Chemotrophs from simple inorganic (oxidative) processes
Heterotrophs digest and absorb organic molecules
Prokaryotae (prokaryotes)
Cell structure:
Prokaryotes, unicellular
Prokaryotes lack cytoplasmic organelles found in eukaryotes
Cell wall: murein
Nutrition: autotrophic (photosynthesis, chemosynthesis), aerobic heterotrophs
Divide by binary fission, not by mitosis
≈10μm in size (bacterial cell, filaments of blue-green bacteria)
Mutualistic nitrogen-fixing bacteria live in nodules on the root of legumes / symbiotic
Protoctista (protoctists)
Cell structure: eukaryotes, unicellular and multicellular
Cell wall: (sometimes) polysaccharide
Nutrition: autotrophic, heterotrophic
Placed in this category by exclusion / cannot be placed in any other kingdom
Slime moulds / fungi characteristics
Protozoa / heterotrophic and ingest food
Algae / photosynthesis
≈10μm (amoeba) – 1m (Laminaria / large brown alga)
Fungi
Cell structure: eukaryotes, multicellular and unicellular (yeast)
Cell wall: chitin
Nutrition: heterotrophic / saprotrophic decomposers or parasitic
Genus Penicillium
Body of a fungus is composed of thin filaments called hyphae / form a mycelium
Secret enzymes / external digestion / absorbs resulting nutrients
Erect hyphae that grow upwards from the mycelium carry their reproductive spores
Chains of spores on the erect hyphae / coloured mould visible on stored food
Break down organic matter
Plantae (plants)
Cell structure: only multicellular, eukaryotic; large vacuoles
Cell wall: cellulose
nutrition: autotrophic (photosynthetic)
Growth is restricted to meristems (layers/patches of dividing cells)
Non-motile; adapted to land / strong tissues, leave gas exchange system, waterproofed
Eg mosses, ferns, conifers, angiosperms (flowering plants)
Plant kingdom has two different types of adults in their life cycle
Gametophytes, hidden in plant / sexual reproduction forms multicellular zygotes
Sporophytes, what we call plant / asexual reproduction to form spores that germinate into gametophytes
Gametophyte (n) → gamete (n) → fertilisation → zygote (2n) → mitosis → sporophyte (2n) → meiosis → spore (n) → mitosis → gametophyte (n)
Animalia (humans, animals)
Cell structure: eukaryotic, multicellular, no cell wall
Develop form a blastocyst / embryo
Have nervous and hormonal control systems
No cell wall!
Nutrition: heterotrophic, involving a digestive system
Are motile and grow throughout tissues (no mersitems)
I want to know of some legit online colleges that have courses for nutrition? I would like to know if the school is accredited and once I finish if I will be able to use my schooling? And is there anyone who has gone through college for nutrition and now is working?
"Global College of Natural Medicine" is a notorious unaccredited crackpot altmed school for bogus nutrition and other quackery. Avoid.
I am starting to sell homemade toffee that I make myself and I want it to be more professional so I want to create a nutrition label. Can anyone give me website where I can put in the ingredients and it creates the label? Also any tips for making my packaging more attractive would be appreciated.
Go to nutritiondata.com and click on Analyze Recipe. I have used it for school many times!
What is the source of nutrition for a pollen tube?
Is a pollen grain haploid or diploid?
Why don’t most plants self pollinate?
do you go to IA?
A nutrition facts label is required on most pre-packaged food in North America. How would someone go about creating one for one of their products?
This is actually a great question, I’ve been through this and I can tell you this; if you will produce more than 10,000 units or will have I believe 10 or more employees then you need a nutrition label and it needs to be displayed in certain areas. You can find an independent food lab in the yellow pages under laboratory. Now things may of changed so I would suggest going to the FDA website (www.fda.gov) just type in business in the search bar and you’ll find tons of info regarding policies. I would suggest if you are serious, finding out if a college near you deals with the culinary arts and if they have any cross classes in business that may help people out for class projects etc.