Nutrition
What is a balanced diet?
What is a diet that contains all the food groups in the correct proportion?
Which acid in the stomach kills bacteria and helps enzymes work?
What is hydrochloric acid?
What is respiration?
What is the breakdown of food (glucose) with the use of oxygen to produce energy.
What is the deficiency for protein?
What is kwashiorkor?
What is the name of the flap that prevents food from entering the trachea during swallowing?
What is the epiglottis?
What is the difference between breathing and respiration?
What is breathing is physical, and respiration is chemical?
Which nutrient looses its value when cooked?
What is Vitamin C?
What is peristalsis?
What is the wave-like muscle movements that push food along the digestive tract.
What is carbon monoxide?
What is a poisonous gas?
Which nutrient can prevent goitre?
What is Iodine?
Which three enzymes are found in pancreatic juice, and what do they break down?
What are amylase (starch → maltose), lipase (fats → fatty acids + glycerol), and trypsin (peptones → peptides)?
What is the function of the ribs?
What is to protect the lungs and other organs in the chest cavity?
A person suffers from fatigue, pale skin, and frequent dizziness. A blood test shows a low red blood cell count.
Identify the likely nutrient deficiency, name its dietary sources, and explain how this nutrient supports the body’s normal function.
What is iron, a mineral essential for making haemoglobin, which carries oxygen to the red blood cells? Sources include liver, yeast, egg yolk.
What is 6.5?
What is the chemical equation for anaerobic respiration?
What is C6H12O6→2C3H6O3+ ATP