Nutrition and exercise

Food and physical activity shape how the body obtains energy, functions and adapts. The parts divide between nutrition and exercise physiology. Metabolic disease, lifestyle medicine, gut-microbiome interventions and appraisal of diet and lifestyle evidence belong to neighbouring concerns.

• Nutrition fundamentals — nutrient definitions and energy units, carbohydrates, protein and fats, food processing, micronutrients and phytochemicals, dietary recommendations and population intake
• Exercise physiology and physical inactivity — exercise as an experimental model, glucose uptake and gene expression, energy balance and inactivity, and the largely associational disease evidence described in 2012