P1-The Relationship Between Energy, Fitness and Nutrition

While many have heard of the calorie, its origins and how heat became associated with respiration are less known. This program will explain how this fundamental measurement for nutrition, fitness, and health was conceived with ice spheres and guinea pigs by de la Place and Lavoisier. It will also cover how the concept of heat energy became associated with biological function from the work of Joules, Helmholz, Faraday, Leibig, Voit, Rubner, Atwater, and Peters. The course will conclude by exploring how the role of electrons in thermodynamics fundamentally changed the concept and philosophy of energy, and how to understand biophysical energy from the environment to promote and maintain the body and its biological systems.