Nutr 320 model 8

Policy

The food industry – which some blame for the obesity epidemic – and specifically food technology, has potential to be used as a ______ against obesity.

weapon

This can be accomplished in part by providing food choices to consumers that will enable them to meet their goal of __________ and ________, to control body weight.

lower energy density food intake and portion sizes

Additives in processed foods, might not only affect energy

density, but potentially also:

• adipogenesis

• epigenetics

• gut microbiota

• hunger and satiety

• thermogenesis

Our discussion will center on the following:

•Amino acids

•Food lipids and Fat replacers

•Sugar substitutes

•Phytochemicals

amino acids

leucine, arginine and cysteine

Leucine is a branched-chain essential amino acid that has been shown to:

- reduce food intake by modulating MTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin activity) in the hypothalamus and/or the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS).

• does not account for the appetite suppressing high-protein diets, suggesting that additional individual amino acids may also contribute