Four stages of nutrition
Ingestion- entering the mouth
Digestion- breaking down the food into smaller parts or molecules
Absorption- absorbing the food into our system so that it can go throughout our body
Elimination- feces or poop.
We eat to get essential nutrients like
Carbohydrates (starches and sugars)- Carbs provide energy. There are complex carbs which are hard to digest, low in fat and rich in vitamins and Simple carbs which are low in fat, lack nutrition, have some essentials and cause short term energy
Fats- lipids- which we need to store energy, protect organs, insulate our body and the things in it, transport vitamins and it is important to our hormones. We have saturated and unsaturated fat
Proteins- which will be addressed more later but they are made of amino acid
Vitamins- These are organic substances to assist in the chemical reactions that occur in the body
http://www.answers.com/topic/vitamins
Minerals- Minerals are inorganic substances that are generally absorbed to provide to structure like calcium in your bones
Ingestion- entering the mouth
Digestion- breaking down the food into smaller parts or molecules
Absorption- absorbing the food into our system so that it can go throughout our body
Elimination- feces or poop.
We eat to get essential nutrients like
Carbohydrates (starches and sugars)- Carbs provide energy. There are complex carbs which are hard to digest, low in fat and rich in vitamins and Simple carbs which are low in fat, lack nutrition, have some essentials and cause short term energy
Fats- lipids- which we need to store energy, protect organs, insulate our body and the things in it, transport vitamins and it is important to our hormones. We have saturated and unsaturated fat
Proteins- which will be addressed more later but they are made of amino acid
Vitamins- These are organic substances to assist in the chemical reactions that occur in the body
http://www.answers.com/topic/vitamins
Minerals- Minerals are inorganic substances that are generally absorbed to provide to structure like calcium in your bones
- Naturally occurring
- Stable at room temperature
- Represented by a chemical formula
- Usually abiogenic
- Ordered atomic arrangement