Course title | |||||
食品機能科学特論 [Advanced Functional Food Science] | |||||
Course category | Requirement | Credit | 0.5 | ||
Department | Year | ~ | Semester | Spring | |
Course type | Spring | Course code | 96222 | ||
Instructor(s) | |||||
東 徳洋(宇) [AZUMA Norihiro] | |||||
Facility affiliation | United Graduate School Agricultural Science | Office | Email address |
Course description |
“Milk science” Directing to advancing age society, importance of the food has been discussed more frequently as a familiar matter. Topics concerning the food and health have enlivened on the television and the paper every day. It is interesting to know how the food component relates to the prevention and healthy recovery of the sickness. Here, the relation between the food and the body will be decoded through the Milk as a filter which is the treasure house of the functional components. The food functioning has done not only as a nutrition source, but relates to various adjustment features such as nervous system, hormone system and immunity system to maintain homeostasis of the body. The aim of this lecture is to raise recognition of importance of the food constituent, including those of the actual form which it originally has, and also those of latent form produced through digestion process from inactive ones, and, simultaneously, to grasp present condition of research concerning the molecular feature in the reactions in the body. |
Expected Learning |
Understanding of the formation of food and the relationship between food ingredients and body homeostasis. |
Course schedule |
1. Science of the milk 1-1. The composition of the milk and the elements. 1-2. Comparative biochemistry of components between human and bovine milks and the genetic background of the protein homologues. 2. The effectiveness of the milk 2-1. Contribution of milk calcium to life-style related illnesses. 2-2. Application of milk proteins and the related peptides to medical treatment. 2-3. Health function of dairy products. |
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Handouts will be provided in class. |
References |
To be announced in the lectures. |
Assessment/Grading |
Based on report. |
Message from instructor(s) |
Have an interest at this occasion in how the diet is important to the disease prevention and the maintenance of the homeostasis of the body. |
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Last update |
4/17/2017 3:57:15 PM |