Kinesiology 585    ENERGY METABOLISM

05/06/09

COURSE CONTENT: Designed for senior undergraduate students and graduate students in kinesiology, nutrition, and biology. The course is centered on how humans store and use the fuel required for energy transduction. Specific topics include pathways by which nutrients are stored, accessed and oxidized to provide ATP; hormonal regulation of energy balance, trafficking of metabolic fuels; impact of diet composition and/or physical activity on regulation of body weight, pathophysiology of obesity and insulin resistance etc. Through lectures, discussion, reading of primary and secondary literature and a group research project, this course will provide the framework necessary to evaluate scientific information related to energy intake, energy expenditure and health with open-minded skepticism.  

The website will be used to post lecture questions (SEE THE "CLASS NOTES" TAB TO THE LEFT), supplemental readings, links to relevant sites, keys to quizzes,  etc., etc. so check often.  

****** Here is a copy of the Final Exam (due T 5/12 at 4:00).  References you need for Question 2 are: Holloszy 2009 and Lanza and Nair 2009.

*****SEE new information under "class project" posted 4-21-09

here is the SYLLABUS

NOTE: Class notes updated 3-31-09 to reflect where we actually ARE instead of where we HOPED to be!

LECTURES:  M, W, F  9:05-9:55 in A201 Lederle GRC        

TEXT:  Bioenergetics Primer for Exercise Science, by Jie Kang, PhD,  Human Kinetics, 2008. Other reading will be assigned as needed.