Welcome to my Biol 28 website. Throughout the semester I will post more information on this site for your class. For now, here is the syllabus for this semester:
Assignments:
Making Healthy Choices When Dining Out (extra credit)
here is a website to find nutritional information at chain restaurants: Nutritional Facts Website
Here are blank excel spreadsheets to help you complete your Nutrition Charts
Homework article analysis: Nutrition Article Analysis Homework
This is the article we will be using: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/gut-microbiome-bacteria-weight-loss
Dietary Analysis software
Here is a handout with directions for your assignment: Dietary Analysis Guide
http://www.choosemyplate.gov/supertracker-tools/supertracker.html– You can make your own plan for food intake, exercise, etc. Just sign up for SuperTracker, input your daily food choices and click Nutrient Report (under My Reports) for an analysis.
* Remember the worksheet for the dietary analysis is the second tab in the Nutrition Charts file listed above, the Daily Values chart is the first tab
Lecture Slide Guides: Here are the guides to the slides we’ll cover in class
First Night of Class: Introduction to Nutrition 8.2013
Week 2: Carbohydrates
Week 3: Lipid Slides
Week 4: Protein Slides
Week 6:Digestion
Week 7: Water Slide
Week 8: Vitamins and Minerals Slides, Nutritional Supplements
Week 9: Alcohol Slides
Week 10: Obesity Slides
Week 12: Sport’s Nutrition Slides
Week 13: Eating Disorders
Week 14: Nutrition Through Life Stages
Week 15: Food Safety Slides
Study Guides for Exams:
Student Test Questions – updated 12/10
Events around town
People’s Grocery Garden Day:
WHEN: Saturday May 4, 2013 11:00am-2:00pm
WHERE: 3501 San Pablo Ave. Oakland, CA (35th and Chestnut behind the California Hotel in West Oakland)
Food Matters @ Merritt College. Here’s the website with more information: http://www.merritt.edu/node/562
Interesting Websites and Books:
This website has a lot of information from genes and nutrition to behavioral eating patterns: http://www.gbhealthwatch.com/GND-Genes-Nutrition-Disease-Intro.php
Grace Communication Foundation – highlights food, water, sustainability issues: http://www.gracelinks.org/
The Oakland Institute – A local policy think-tank that writes a lot about the intersection of food security and land rights in global south communities.
Food First – Another local policy and advocacy think-tank that focuses more on food security and issues such as indigeneity, poverty, ecological degradation and hunger.
Stuff and Starved by Raj Patel – Author and advocate for just global food systems.
This book covers the pros and cons of a Locavore diet – http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781586489403-0
Videos of lectures and podcasts of interest:
If you always wondered who is studying the affects of sugar, Robert Lustig at UCSF is not only a leading researcher, but you can hear him talk about it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
UCSF lecture on Supplements by Ellen Hughes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntLcx3UaZ1o
Planet Money- http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/
“Lard Podcast”: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/06/144806987/the-friday-podcast-who-killed-lard0
“Chinese Oreos podcast”: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/27/145918343/rethinking-the-oreo-for-chinese-consumers
Articles of Interest:
Here are two concerning intestinal bacteria and weight loss
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/gut-microbiome-bacteria-weight-loss
Marketing to people who are overweight: http://jezebel.com/5945955/its-hard-enough-to-be-a-fat-kid-without-the-government-telling-you-youre-an-epidemic
Blueberries: http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/04/03/health/100000002148644/ask-well-dried-or-fresh-blueberries.html
GMO corn (try copy pasting if it doesn’t link correctly) – http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Genetically-modified-crops-results-raise-concern-3520087.php
Childhood obesity and soda: http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/22/studies-show-that-cutting-out-soda-curbs-childrens-weight-gain/
Drinking too much Diet Coke : http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-06/woman-drinks-coke-instead-water-16-years
Here are some articles about High Fructose Corn Syrup:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130619164437.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120227152723.htm – obesity
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120124140317.htm – teens and cardiovascular health
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110728082558.htm – overall heart health
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100803092150.htm – pancreatic cancer
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100803092150.htm – link to diabetes
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hep.23535/abstract;jsessionid=1276DAF76339BE17D4302763D53FA4A0.d01t01 – fatty liver