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Food and Energy
Healthy Eating
Beginning Digestion
Final Digestion &
Absorption
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What is 1 way to get calcium in your diet?
-milk -cheese -dark green, leafy veggies (ex. spinach) -tofu -legumes
100
What is the Food Guide Pyramid?
A chart that breaks foods into 6 groups and how many servings you should have.
100
What does saliva chemically break down?
Sugars
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Where is bile produced?
In the liver.
200
What percentage of your body weight is water? Give 1 reasons why humans need water.
65%. -Water makes up fluids in the body -Nutrients and other important things are carried in the watery part of blood -Need it to sweat and cleanse the body of waste
200
Name 3 things you can find in Nutrition Facts.
-Serving Size -Calories -Calories from Fat -Total Fat -Saturated Fat -Unsaturated Fat -Sodium (salt) -Total Carbohydrate -Protein -Vitamins -Minerals -Ingredients And more…!
200
True or False: The physical breakdown of food is called mechanical digestion.
TRUE! Mechanical digestion is digestion through movement, like chewing.
200
Nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream in the _________ _________________.
Large intestine.
300
What are the two types of carbohydrates? Define one of them.
Simple carbohydrates & complex carbohydrates. Simple carbohydrates: sugars Complex carbohydrates: many sugar molecules connected together like starch or fiber.
300
What are the 6 main food groups?
-Fats, Oils, & Sweets -Milk, Yogurt, & Cheese -Meat, Poultry, Fish, Dry Beans, Eggs, & Nuts -Vegetables -Bread, Cereal, Rice, & Pasta
300
What is an example of chemical digestion in the mouth? What enzyme is found there?
Saliva is chemical digestion in the mouth. Amalyse is the enzyme at work.
300
What do villi? Where are the villi?
Villi: tiny structures, shaped like fingers, that provide a large surface area to absorb food. Located in the small intestine.
400
What is the difference between fat soluble and water soluble vitamins?
Fat soluble vitamins dissolve in fat, and are stored in fatty tissues. However, water soluble vitamins dissolve in water and are not stored in the body.
400
Give 3 examples of how to get protein in your diet.
-Milk -Cheese -Yogurt -Fish -Chicken -Beef -Pork -Dry Beans -Eggs
400
What is the path of food in the first part of digestion?
First food passes from the mouth to the esophagus, then into the stomach. Waves of muscle contractions, peristalsis, moves the food in one direction toward the stomach and intestines.
400
Does bile work like an enzyme? Describe what bile does.
Bile is NOT an enzyme. It is a substance that breaks up fat particles, but does not chemically digest them like an enzyme.
500
Name the 6 nutrients humans need.
-carbohydrates -fats -proteins -vitamins -minerals -water
500
Why are the food groups different sizes on the pyramid? (Fats is small at the top, but Breads is large at the bottom)
The groups are bigger or smaller depending on how much you should eat from that group. Breads is large, because it should be a bigger part of your diet.
500
Peristalsis is found in the esophagus, stomach, and small intestine. How do you define it? Involuntary waves of muscle contraction to move food in one direction.
Involuntary waves of muscle contraction to move food in one direction.
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Describe the entire digestive process from mouth to feces
Food is chewed in the mouth, swallowed into the esophagus, and moved by peristalsis to the stomach. Peristalsis moves it again to the small intestine where nutrients are absorbed in the villi. Then it moves into the large intestine where water is absorbed. Then it is moved out of the body.