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Lecture 1: Introduction
Announcements
Saturday, September
7th, 2013
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David A. LevitskySteven H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
Professor of Nutrition and Psychology
112 Savage Hall
Office: 5-3263
Home: 272-5122
Grace Lauren Altamura [email protected]
Hannah M Beer [email protected]
Zoe Rebecca Begun [email protected]
Andrea Laura Bejarano [email protected]
Frankie Chan [email protected]
Anca Dogaroiu [email protected]
David John Foy [email protected]
Jonathan Stephen Galati [email protected]
Josef Kushner [email protected]
Joo Won Lee [email protected]
Katerina Lembrikova [email protected]
Michelle T Leonetti [email protected]
Rebecca Liu [email protected]
Christine Mathew [email protected]
Joyce Mathew [email protected]
Zoe Nicole Memel [email protected]
Paige Jaclyn Mintz [email protected]
Emily Christine Murphy [email protected]
Molly Olivia Nolan [email protected]
Sheryl Elizabeth Quock [email protected]
Aimee R Takamura art67@cornell. edu
Irene Tsai [email protected]
Alice Wang [email protected]
Emma Hoehn Waugh [email protected]
Undergraduate TA’s
Grace Altamura [email protected]
Molly Nolan [email protected]
Sheryl Quock [email protected]
70’s Club Undergraduate TA’s
Eunice Awuah [email protected]
Hey Jun Park [email protected]
Stephanie Lee [email protected]
Sarah Pedersen [email protected]
Zhen Xue [email protected]
Ruoyu Zhang [email protected]
NS1150 Graduate TA’s
What it’s all about?
1. Health
Will answer the second most
important question:
How can I live the
healthiest life possible?
Most Important Question:
Why should I live at all?
What is all about?
1. Health
A. Nutrition
What should I eat?
fatsnutraceuticals
How little should I eat?
What is all about?
1. Health
A. Nutrition
GI Disorders
Stomach
What is all about?
1. Health
A. Nutrition
Weight Control
What is all about?
1. Health
A. Nutrition
Heart Disease
What is all about?
1. Health
A. Nutrition
Cancer
What is all about?
1. Health
A. Nutrition
B. Physical Activity
What is all about?
1. Health
A. Nutrition
B. Physical Activity
Food Supplement
What is all about?
1. Health
A. Nutrition
B. Physical Activity
2. Thinking about Health
What is all about?
1.Health
A. Nutrition
B. Physical Activity
2.Thinking about
Health
Beauty and Wisdom of the Body
GRADES
Midterm 1 (25%)
Midterm 2 (25%)
Final Exam (25%)
Term Paper (20%)
Food Record (5%)
=
Exam
Review
Rebuttal
Paper
1. Pick any controversy in health
Paper
1. Pick any controversy in health
2. Find four “peer-reviewed” journal articles
- ideally, two on one side, two on the other
3. Discuss strengths of each study
4. Discuss the weaknesses of each study
5. Arrive at a Conclusion
Paper
Papers will be Peer-Graded
Extra Goodies
Cooking with Dave
Dave’s Dietary Delusions
(1% added to grade)
Extra Credit for Participating in a study
(1% added to grade)
Coffee with Dave
Savage Hall Lobby – 2:30 – 3:00
My Passion for Nutrition
I love Nutrition
I know it is not a tradition
For a professor to confess his passion
For a subject, for a discipline, for an area, for a
course
As broad and complete and diverse and as practical
as Nutrition
But, I have to tell you,
I love Nutrition.
My Passion for Nutrition
Nutrition is about science
Science is thinking in public.
Public thinking means that to convince you
What I say is not good enough
What I claim as truth is not good enough
What I believe to be true is not good enough
But I must show you, and that is not good enough
You can only believe what I say is true
When my observations are repeated by others with
no connection or financial interests or personal
attachments to me.
.
Then you may take my findings as true
But always with skepticism.
A skepticism that insists that there just might be
another interpretation,
Another way of thinking about the facts, about the
data, about the study, about the truth.
There are no secrets in science.
Nutrition is about food,
Food is about giving
About giving food to small hungry mouths whose
only sin was
Being caught between warring political parties
More concerned about dominating
Than feeling the suffering of the innocent.
Nutrition is providing food to people
Who cannot feed themselves
Because the burden of poverty and discrimination
Forces them to live in poor housing,
Send their children to poor schools,
Suffer illness because of poor diets,
And are too poor to seek medical care,
Always living with the uncertainty of their next meal.
Food is a collection of molecules
That form coalitions that seduce me to take
Them into my vulnerable inner sanctuary
Where my body will disassemble, reassemble,
rearrange, and convert those molecules
Into substances so vital to my existence that
if I don’t receive my regular supply,
I will descend into pain, distortion, dysfunction, and
maybe die.
Nutrition is about systems.
Systems that make love to each other,
As in the sweet kiss of glucose upon my waiting
beta cells
Arousing it from its sleep into an eruption of insulin
molecules
Each searching my body for that unique receptor
waiting to bind their bodies together.
Coupled, they produce a flow of sustenance into my
hungry cells, providing them with the fuel
That will sustain them and nourish them and heal
them,
And enable them to continue their struggle against
entropy and death.
Nutrition is about knowledge.
Knowledge is about predicting.
Predicting the future on the basis of information.
Knowledge is more powerful that the mythical
crystal ball
For unlike the myth, I can change my future
Not with certainty, but with sufficient confidence to
Believe that I am not a leaf being blown by the
winds of fate
But rather the captain of my own ship
Steering my passage through the uncertain sea of
life.
Nutrition is about pleasure
The pleasure of tasting flavors
Produced by melodic combinations
Of foods and spices and sundry cooking methods
Into a such a glorious symphonic dish where a mere
whiff of its fragrance
Make me close my eyes and bring a smile to my lips
Taking me far away from the reality of daily
existence.
That is why I love Nutrition.
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That’s all folks