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nutrition by definition is a science that links food to
health and disease. It includes the processes that
What is nutrition:
humans ingest, digest, absorb, transport, and excrete
substances

Nutrition spands all ages it impacts the time of birth to the time of death
in which:

through the different supplements we take, what we
How do pharmaceuticals
eat and why we eat as far as food safety, mass
and the food industry play
production, restaurants, manufacturers, media, and
into nutrition:
food labels

Nutrition by definition is health and disease
the science that links food
to:

Good nutrition as well as good health
exercise leads to:

Media plays a huge role marketing, fad diets, celebrities, etc.
into nutrition as far as:

, Nutrients can be classified macro-nutrient, micro-nutrient, organic, and inorganic
as:

Macro-nutrient: needed in large amounts in the body

Micro-nutrients: needed in small amounts in the body

Organic: a compound that contains carbon and hydrogen

Inorganic: any substance that doesn't contain carbon

Mechanical energy: perform muscular movements

they are compounds that are secreted into the
What are hormones: bloodstream by different cells, and their goal is to act
to control the function of another type of cell

is produced by the stomach; its job is to travel to the
Ghrelin: brain,stimulate the hunger center, and deactivate the
satiety center

is produced by fat cells called adipose tissue; its job is
to alert the brain, turn off the hunger center, and
Leptin:
activate the satiety center' any time your eating your
leptin levels should increase to tell you that your full

Name the key hormone ghrelin; its produced by the stomach; its job is to
that causes hunger. travel the brain and stimulate the hunger center and
Indicate where in the deactivate the satiety center
body its produced and the
process by which it
operates:

Two key hormones in the ghrelin and leptin
process of hunger and
satiety are:

Name the key hormone leptin; its produced by fat cells; its job is to alert the
that causes satiety. brain, turn off the hunger center, and activate satiety
Indicate where in the center
body its produced and the
process by which it
operates:

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