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Part 2
Spring 2015
Term | Definition |
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phytoncides | antimibrobial, allelochemical, and volatile organic compounds produced by plants to defend itself |
forest bathing | places like japan, korea, and taiwan breathe in phyoncide emitted by a plant to improve health |
functional foods | food and food components that provide health benefits beyond basic nutrition |
Roles Functional foods Play | Reducing risk of disease and improving health |
Functional Foods | Milk, Tuna, Soy, Citrus Fruits, Beries, Chocolate, Red Wine, Yam, Mushrooms, and Beans |
Aspirin | From a Willow Tree |
Digitalis | From a Foxglove Plant |
Morphine Opium | From a Poppy |
Vincristine | From a Rosy Periwinkle |
Dietary Supplements for Cancer Treatment | Milk Thistle, Echinacea, glutamine, Essiac Tea |
Essiac Tea | Canadian indian herbal product used by Rene Caisse to reduce tumor growth, blood purifiers, and innate defense mechanisms |
Prostaglandins | Powerful cell regulators that help maintain virtually many body functions including blood, brain, kidney, hear and immune system |
plant sterols and phytostanols | help prevents the body from absorbing cholesterol in the GI |
protein, iron, vitamin B-12, calcium and zinc | nutrients essential for vegetarians. |
coenzyme Q10 | Natural substance present in foods that acts as a powerful antioxidant and helps with energy metabolism |
Fat soluble and should be taken with a meal for best absorption | CoQ10 |
Vitamin E and Selenium | Prevent lipid peroxidation of biological membranes |
Echinacea | Most common herb in the United States |
Vitamin D | This vitamin helps with immune function and fighting infection and deficient in patients with all types of cancer |
Morality | the first order beliefs and practices about good and evil that guide our behavior |
Ethics | Conscious stepping back and reflecting on morality |
Integrity | Means Ethical. |
Upskill | Learn new procedures or tasks |
19 | Principles of professional conduct |
aspirational, educational, regulatory | Hybrid of three topes of codes |
DSHEA | Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act |