L2

• Carbohydrates

  •give the body energy

  •health of digestive system, •needed in making mucus, •stimulates peristaltic movement of the small intenstine

  •Control hemorrhoids

  •Reduces risk of hypertension and other cardio diseases

  •Reduces risk of colon cancer
• Mucus is a lubricant
• Cellulose (Fiber)
• Protein

  •Essential part of everything in the body

  •Growth and repair of tissues

  •source of energy

  •helps in forming anti-bodies
• Amino Acid is the building blocks of proteins.
• Fats

  •supply body with energy more than proteins and carbos

  •insulators of the body

  •absorption of the fat-soluble vitamins
• Fats - Lipids
• Vitamins and Minerals

  •essential in maintaining the body's biological functions
• Ergosterol

  •precursor of vitamin D

  •it can't be produced by our body

  •helps in making hemoglobin

  •essential in building bones and teeth
• Fat-soluble vitamins are stored in the body.
• Water-soluble vitamins excerted from the body when theres too much.
• Ergocalciferol type of Vitamin D that needs sunlight to be converted into usable vitamin D.
• If there is not enough Iron it may lead to anemia (red-blood cells or hemoglobin is very low)
• Fat-soluble Vitamins

  •Vitamin A

  •Vitamin D

  •Vitamin E

  •Vitamin K
• Water-soluble Vitamins

  •Vitamin B1

  •Vitamin B2

  •Vitamin B6

  •Vitamin B12

  •Vitamin C

  •Vitamin B3

  •Vitamin B4

  •Vitamin B7 or Vitamin H
• Vitamin A(retinol) fights aging
• Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
• Vitamin D (ergocalciferol, cholecalciferol)
• Vitamin E (Tocopherol)
• Vitamin K (phylloquinone, menaquinone, menadione)
• Vitamin B (thiamine)
• Vitamin B2 (riboflavin)
• Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine)
• Vitamin B12 (cobalamin)
• Viramin B3 (niacin)
• Vitamin B4 (folate)
• Vitamin B7 (vitamin k, brotin)
• Digestive tract is a long tube measuring 30 ft or 9 meters long.
• Mastication is the chewing or grinding of teeth into smaller pieces.
• Salivary glands parotid, submandibular, buccal
• Saliva contains salivary amylase
• Maltose simpler sugar
• Pharynx is thinly-lined, hollow, muscular tube behind mouth.
• Bolus is a ball-like mass of food.
• Peristalsis moves the bolus through the digestive system.
• Gastric juice produced by the gastric glands found in the lining of the stomach.
• Mucin(mucus) protects the stomach lining from its own acid, it is also present in the esophagus.
• Pepsinogen is a zymogen(inactice enzyme) produced by the mucus cells and the cheif cells of the stomach.
• Pepsin is a protein-digesting enzyme that breaks down proteins into peptides.
• Hydrochloric acid(stomach acid) acts as the activator of pepsinogem, and is essential in destroying microorganisms that are left in the food.