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    Food and Nutrition: Energy Growth Digestive

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    The document discusses food and nutrition, describing how food is digested in the digestive system which contains enzymes that help break down food into simpler substances like amino acids, fatty acids, and simple sugars. It also notes that a balanced diet should contain proteins, carbohydrates, fats, dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, and water, and that obtaining these nutrients from plants and food supports energy, growth, and maintaining a healthy body.

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    Food and Nutrition: Energy Growth Digestive

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    The document discusses food and nutrition, describing how food is digested in the digestive system which contains enzymes that help break down food into simpler substances like amino acids, fatty acids, and simple sugars. It also notes that a balanced diet should contain proteins, carbohydrates, fats, dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, and water, and that obtaining these nutrients from plants and food supports energy, growth, and maintaining a healthy body.

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    The document discusses food and nutrition, describing how food is digested in the digestive system which contains enzymes that help break down food into simpler substances like amino acids, fatty acids, and simple sugars. It also notes that a balanced diet should contain proteins, carbohydrates, fats, dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, and water, and that obtaining these nutrients from plants and food supports energy, growth, and maintaining a healthy body.

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    Food and Nutrition: Energy Growth Digestive

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    The document discusses food and nutrition, describing how food is digested in the digestive system which contains enzymes that help break down food into simpler substances like amino acids, fatty acids, and simple sugars. It also notes that a balanced diet should contain proteins, carbohydrates, fats, dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, and water, and that obtaining these nutrients from plants and food supports energy, growth, and maintaining a healthy body.

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    Food and Nutrition

    Used for
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    Energy Should be eaten
    Digestive In correct
    Growth system proportion

    Balanced may contain


    Maintaining diet
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    a healthy Oesophagus Food
    Which contains
    body Stomach
    Enzymes that
    additives
    Small intestine
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    Obtained by down food
    Rectum
    into simpler Hyperactivity
    Anus
    substances Cancer

    Plants contains
    Proteins

    Carbohydrates
    Proteins protease Amino acids
    Photosynthesi
    s Fats
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    process by which green Dietary fibre
    Starch carbohydrase Simple
    plants, in the presence
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    chlorophyll, make glucose Vitamins
    (food) from carbon Fats lipase Fatty acids + Glycerol
    dioxide and water. This Mineral
    process releases oxygen
    as a by-product salts

    Water

    Carbon + Water Light energy Glucose + Oxygen


    Dioxide Chlorophyll

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