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[Food as Medicine] Foods, fertility and pregnancyBeautiful Thing/2020_April Food as Medicine Online-study 2020. 4. 18. 02:39
Are food and nutrition important for fertility(출산,다산)? Having trouble conceiving a child is a relatively common problem experienced by one in every six couples. Factors that affect fertility may be genetic, environmental or behavioural. A variety of medical treatments are available that may increase fertility and assist in conception but these can be invasive(침략적인) and expensive. In many cases, ..
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[Food as Medicine] Food and our genomeBeautiful Thing/2020_April Food as Medicine Online-study 2020. 4. 17. 03:33
What are genes and why are they important for health? CHIARA MURGIA : video transcript Instructions to build and maintain an organism, including a human being, are contained in its DNA. DNA's an amazing molecule(분자). It contains all the information to achieve these complex tasks. And because it's able to replicate itself, it's able to transfer the information across the generation. DNA is a long..
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[Food as Medicine] Food and the brainBeautiful Thing/2020_April Food as Medicine Online-study 2020. 4. 15. 22:44
Find out how your body controls your appetite and learn more about the eating pattern known as 'food addiction'. What is appetite and how can it affect my health? Appetite can be defined as a natural desire to satisfy a bodily need, especially for food; or a strong desire for something, such as food. (Oxford Dictionary). The signals Hunger is the physiological driver of appetite – mostly we reco..
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[Food as Medicine] Food and the gutBeautiful Thing/2020_April Food as Medicine Online-study 2020. 4. 14. 20:54
At the end of this week you will be able to: identify foods/components of food that have an effect on different body systems including the gastrointestinal system, the brain and appetite, inflammatory processes discuss concepts impacting on over/under nutrition and how this can affect growth and body weight discuss and explain internal factors impacting on food choices and body weight recognise ..
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[Food as Medicine] Foods and inflammationBeautiful Thing/2020_April Food as Medicine Online-study 2020. 4. 14. 00:06
What is inflammation and how is it useful? Inflammation(염증) is the reaction of living tissue to local injury or damage. A recent study with over 2,000 participants has shown that adults who had a high intake of antioxidant compounds from foods like apples and pears, strawberries and red wine had much lower levels of inflammatory biomarkers in their blood which would reduce their risk for many ch..