Re: Not misleading at all!!

garcia:

Why would a physiology textbook talk about food and nutrition? The very fact that these textbooks do not talk about the food being digested shows that they are not concerned with that issue which is the subject of NUTRITION, not physiology. If you want information on food enzymes you will have to find it in a NUTRITION textbook not a physiology textbook.

EZ: Why wouldn't a phsyiology textbook discuss the mechanisms by which food enzymes are detected and the production of endogenous enzymes supressed when these food enzymes are detected? Seems to me that it would be a basic phsyiological construct. If I want information on how the body detects the enzymes infood and how the body modulates the production of endogenous enzymes based on that detection isn't that phsyiology?


GArcia:
A physiology textbook will *by necessity* only concern itself with the human body and what is endogenous to the human body. If it started talking about all the different outside agents with which the human body interacts (e.g. viruses, bacteria - good and bad, fungi, vitamins, minerals, food enzymes) the textbook would no longer be on physiology.

EZ: Wouldn't the detection and modualtion of the production of endogenous enzymes be phsyiology and not nutrition? Immune system phsyiology does discuss how the body reacts to virus.....isn't the mounting of an immune response physiology? If the textbook wouldn't be on physiology what would it be on then??


garcia:
If you continue to get your blinkered picture of digestion from a physiology textbook you will continue to be misinformed and to misinform others.

EZ: Since you don't to think that the process of modulating the production of endogenous enzymes based on what is present in the food we eat...leading to the energtic savings you indicate is vital and desirable what is it? It isn't nutrition since it is dealing with a endogenous response so what would you call this response and its operation?

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