...The human body uses its organs and glands to process and digest food. The whole process starts with putting food into the mouth and using teeth to chew up the food. As teeth are chewing up the food salivary enzymes which are produced by salivary glands are used to transform food into a bolus which enters the pharynx where it is swallowed. At this point the bolus enters into esophagus which is a tube that links pharynx to the stomach. After the bolus goes through the esophagus it then moves into the stomach. While In the stomach the bolus merges with acid gastric and then becomes partly digested. At this point the bolus mass is changed into chyme. From the stomach the chyme moves into the duodenum which is the beginning of the small intestine. From the beginning part of the small intestine the chyme moves to jejunum. Then the chyme moves to ileum which is the last part of the small intestine. While the chyme is in the small intestine the food digestion and absorption is assisted by production of bile in the liver and then warehoused in the gallbladder. At this point the large intestine becomes part of the process. The bolus passes through a sphincter which is part of the organ that keeps the chyme mixing into both intestines. While in the large intestine the colon absorbs water and vitamins. The whole process ends with the remaining waste which is not absorbed continues through colon then travels into the rectum. From the rectum the remaining chyme travels into the anus...
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...The effects of Fast Food on the Human Body Shannon Harvey DeVry University The Effects of Fast Food on the Human Body A mother driving home late from work is thinking about what to make for dinner that can be easily prepared. She sees a couple signs for fast food along the side of the road. She does not think twice and pulls into the dive through to pick up dinner for the night. This happens all over the world without a thought as to what is put into our bodies and what the consequences will be later in life. The problem with this is that more people are becoming obese and having other major health problems which are shortening their lives. The easiest way to stop this cycle is to be educated on the right types of food for the body and to learn to prepare meals at home. A good example of what can happen to the body come from the experiment ran by Morgan Spurlock and his team of doctors. What Morgan wanted to do was bring awareness to the growing problem of obesity in America. Most people have heard of the movie “Super-Size Me” and wonder why a person would want to knowingly do something harmful to their bodies and their families’ bodies. Over a thirty day time frame Morgan ate nothing but McDonalds three times a day and he only supersized it if the staff asked. Even though he though he knew what would happen to his body he was very surprised at the results and health problems than were a result from just a few weeks on a diet like this. The results were nothing short...
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...Article Analysis - Changes in Childhood Food Consumption Patterns: A Cause for Concern in Light of Increasing Body Weights Article Analysis - Changes in Childhood Food Consumption Patterns: A Cause for Concern in Light of Increasing Body Weights The article talks about how the fast food industry is contributing to the growing number of cases of obesity among school children. The article explains that school children nowadays are not getting the necessary nutrients from the food they buy at fast food outlets such as the school cafeteria. The article says that “school lunches tended to exceed the national recommendations for fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol” (Onge, Keller, Heymsfield, p. 1070). The article also talked about the health consequences of childhood obesity. The writer explains that if not checked, childhood obesity may lead to the child experiencing sicknesses such as metabolic dysfunction, diabetes, and high blood pressure in his or her adult life. The article also emphasizes that “changes in the children’s food supply have been dictated largely by political and economic forces”(Onge, Keller, Heymsfield, p. 1072). To solve this problem, the article suggests “manipulating the prices of foods through taxes on unhealthy food items of price supports for healthy food items”(Onge, Keller, Heymsfield, p. 1072). Hopefully, this measure would “help the population achieve dietary goals”(Onge, Keller, Heymsfield, p. 1072)...
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...During my three-day food intake I learned about myself. There are many benefits of good nutrition. ”Medical Online” states “besides helping you maintain a healthy weight, good nutrition is essential for the body and all its system to function optimally for a lifetime.” A healthy diet promotes good sleep, gives the body what it needs to stay healthy, and provides energy. According to “Mealtime Memo” Good nutrition means getting the calories that we need for energy and the nutrients we need for proper growth. I’m learning that variety, balance, and moderation are the key to healthy nutrition. As I am learning what I should and should not eat I will like you to invite you to take a look at my food intake. This essay will converse about my intake of protein, carbohydrates, lipids, macronutrients intake ranges, fiber intake ranges, and dietary modifications based on three full days of my food intake. After recording my dietary intake for three days through the Wiley iProfile and reviewing the reports, I have found that this provides a better scope of my eating habits and the nutritional value in each thing I eat. According to the Wiley iProfile 2.0 (2010) I am within the recommended range for protein the range is from 68-240g and I only received 69g. I am on the lower end of the range. The main sources of protein recorded in my three-day study were yogurt, homemade spaghetti, lays potato chips sour cream and onions and McDonalds big Mac. All of the food that I ate seemed to have...
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... Digestion is movement of breaking down what food you consume in your body through your mouth into molecules so that the body can absorb it. “Proteins, carbohydrates, and fats in our diets must be broken down and later, reassembled in forms useful to our body.” (Carter, 2014) We often eat foods that are hard to digest or we have a problem that won’t allow us to digest foods properly. The digestion process is very important for our bodies to provide the necessary nutrients it needs to survive, but is the most complicated process. Before I take you through the process of the human digestive system, let me tell you about some foods that the body will digest easily and those foods that are hard to digest. If your diet consist of being high in fiber and fats then your body will have problems digesting these foods. Though fiber is supposed to be good for the body, it is also hard to digest. The organs and format that consist of the path that food travels through the human digestive system would consist of the mouth, which food enters and comes in contact with your saliva. The salivary glands, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas, all provide the necessary enzymes from their secretions for the process of the digestive system. When we see and smell food our saliva glands begin the process of the digestive system. After one put food in their mouth the teeth chew the food allowing the food to turn into bolus. Bolus is a mass of soft food after being chewed. The bolus then goes into the...
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...Diet | Fat Burning Foods Guide People often suffer from illnesses due to poor nutrition, unhealthy lifestyle, and even eating too much without considering the value of vitamins and nutrients that a person must acquire to have a balanced and healthy diet. Nowadays, proper and balance diet is not already observed. People tend to eat foods that they know can satisfy their thirst of hunger. A desired food which is usually eaten for you can just have it instantly. Not enough vitamins and nutrients for our daily intake of foods can harm us and even an excess of it. Obesity can be one of the major problems which a person may encounter for having this poor nutrition. Best fat burning foods such as: Foods that contains high level of...
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...in is so big that farmers are using Genetically modified foods (GMO) to help make more produce for the society("20 Quotes About”). There are benefits from GMOS but there are also consequences of the GMO’S. The only thing they tell you about the GMOS is the side effects that are not harmful to the body. They make the produce taste and look better than the organic foods that do not have the GMOS on it. The people deserve the right to know if the food is being genetically modified or not. The first thing I want to address is the benefits of the GMOS. The GMOS help farmers produce more product and they help kill the weeds that grow in the fields. Some people are saying that they GMOS help the body absorb some the vitamins we need in are body to make are body healthy ("PolicyMic."). Fourteen states have now tried to legislated a law that shows which foods are genetically modified and the risks that involves the food modifications. California is trying to follow the legislation in becoming the fifteenth state. People say we do not need to know what is modified or not because the food we eat no matter what has bacteria on them ("PolicyMic."). Henry Miller pointed out that the GMOS help crops grow in harsh environments produce less water and less carbon oxide ("PolicyMic."). The GMOS help produce cheaper food in huge amounts and in a suitable manner. Companies do not want the consumers to know about the genetically modified food because it could traumatize the business. Scientists say...
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...eating to honour your body by feeding it the nutrients it needs to thrive without forcing yourself to make choices based solely on nutritional information. You will not become nutrient deficient in one day, it is more important to consider what you nourish your body with over the long run. This being said, not all food is created equal. Each type of food serves a different purpose in your body and you will notice the effects based on what you are consistently eating. **All of the food groups play an important role in your bodies everyday functioning. Protein Protein plays an important role in the body to build, repair, and maintain muscle tissue. Protein is made up of amino acids. There are about 20 amino acids, nine of which are referred to as...
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... | |Nutrition is the science that links foods to health and disease, nutrition is important to our daily lives because being able to | |determine what foods are good or bad for us will enable us to live longer healthier lives. By knowing how different types of food| |reacts with our body and what nutrients we get from each item we can control our food intake to better our lives. | |What is the connection between nutrition and health? | |By studying nutrition, we are able to determine what types of foods provided what essential nutrients. Some of these nutrients | |are chemicals that our bodies need in order to live healthy life styles, but they are also ones that our bodies do not create or | |create very little of. From there we can determine what types or foods we need to add to our diets to make up for the lacking of | |or loss of nutrients. | |What are the six classes of nutrients? What are essential nutrients? What are the sources of nutrients? What do nutrients do? | |The six classes of nutrients are made up by carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins, minerals and water. Out of those six, | |carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins are considered to be essential nutrients. The nutrients our bodies...
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...The Concepts of Nutritional Health What is a Healthy Diet? (DRV/ RNI) Healthy eating means consuming the right quantities of foods from all food groups in order to lead a healthy life. Diet is often referred to as some dietary program for losing weight. However, diet simply means what food we eat in the course of a 24-hour, one week, or one month, etc. A good diet is a nutritional lifestyle that promotes good health. A good diet must include several food groups because one single group cannot provide everything a person needs for good health. DRV- Dietary Reference Values (DRVs) are the complete set of nutrient recommendations and reference values, given by the government. DRVs can be used for reference values in food labelling and for establishing food-based dietary guidelines. RNI- Reference Nutrient Intake is the value amount of a nutrient required for an individual to prevent deficiency within themselves. For example: Many people need less than the RNI. The difference between Meals and Snacks The difference between a meal and snack is that a meal is usually made up of a variety of different nutrients. Whereas snacks are a single type of food, which you have with a drink, it may be of low nutritional contents. Therefore it is very unhealthy. . However snacks, if wholesome and healthy substances, are a good thing if you eat them for the right reasons at the right time. Moreover meals are prepared and cooked, for example your breakfast and afternoon Lunch...
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...thamizhbooks.com Ph: 044-24332424, 24332924, 24339024 Rs.100/\ print: Jothi Enterprices, Chennai -5 Thanks to ACUPUNCTURE HEALERS ORGANISATION Hr.Bose.K.Mohamed Meera Hr.Magi Ramalingam Hr.P.V.Devarajan Hr.M.J.Pandian Hr.P.M.Umar Farook CONTENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Learning Language Health is Strength Immunity is Life Eat Hunger Fate Prevails! One plus One is not Two Creating and Protecting Disease an Imagination Diseases of Exact Science 5 7 9 12 14 16 19 22 25 27 30 34 40 44 52 56 60 68 77 10. Quietness is Pleasantness! 11. Waste stagnation causes Death! 12. Action and Reaction 13. Reason behind Stories 14. Shining and the Sign! 15. Elixir is Venom 16. Thirst - Hunger as per requirement! 17. Milk - is it Food? 18. Poison-less Food 19. Love Nature! Come back to Nature 1 Learning Language E veryone has their own language. Expressing our needs, sharing our feelings – it is through language that we create our relationships with others. Language is a necessary communication tool for people. Beyond our mother tongue, we learn languages of neighboring states, of the nation, of the world – so our needs increase. Beyond human language, we also know the language of our pet animals, learning these languages through their activities. We learn the many needs of a dog through its barking. We learn the languages of our other pets – goats, cows, hens, cats, parrots... and we understand their needs by their expressions. A farmer knows of the coming...
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...consuming sugars and fats at an alarming rate that are killing and costing millions. Foods like these are becoming main food groups for a lot of people and families. The film Forks Over Knives, is an eye opener to what these types of foods are do to he health of the body. The film points out the specific contributions to many health related diseases, and directs it at the foods that are being consumed. Lee Fulkerson and Joey Aucoin are living proof. Their lifestyles were very similar, they both ate foods with high amounts of fats and sugars, as well as drinks with high amounts of sugar. Their lives take a major turn as they are followed in the documentary. The three main components to the film that caught my attention were the nutrients that our bodies were being deprived of such as essential nutrients that the whole foods plant based diet can give, diabetes and health related problems can be reversed with a healthier lifestyle, as well as how a whole foods plant...
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...true. The food we eat and put into our bodies is the fuel our bodies need to function properly. Hippocrates believed that the human body has an innate capacity for self-healing (Colquhoun, Ledesma, 2008). Without the proper foods and nutrients our bodies cannot absorb the proper enzymes, nutrients and antioxidants needed to maintain a healthy body. There are very few things a person can do to impact their lives more powerfully, deeply and permanently than changing your diet. Every piece of food that enters your mouth has a direct impact on your mind, body, and soul. “The human body is the best picture of the human soul,” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-British philosopher. That’s the philosophy that I have learned through my research into the health benefits of food. Everything going on, on the outside of your body is a reflection of what’s going on in your internal organs. I learned this for myself firsthand a couple of months ago when I changed my diet completely. I am a thirty year old single mother who just recently moved home with my family to finish my degree in nursing. This stage of my life has by far been the hardest stage of my life. I was suffering with depression, anxiety, and on top of that my health was slowly deteriorating in front of my eyes. I didn’t understand I had never experienced depression or anxiety and now with my hair and skin at the most unhealthiest point I’ve ever seen it, I was a complete mess. I knew something was going on within my body and it was...
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...P4- Explain the physiology of two named body systems in relation to energy metabolism in the body In this assignment I will be explain the physiology of two named body system in relation to energy metabolism in the body. The system that I have chosen is the respiratory system and the digestive system. The respiratory system is where the exchange of gases in the body this is where the oxygen enters into the blood. The lung is the main organ which the lungs intakes oxygen into the body and the carbon dioxide is exported out. The respiration system is made up of many organs which help us to breathe properly. The digestive system is where the organs inside the body break down the food and convert it to energy and nutrients that are needed in the body. The stomach is a tube shaped which has all the food and liquid that we have ate and it makes around the body and it is a mainly long twisted tube that starts from the mouth and comes all the way down to the anus and into few organs such as the pancreas and the liver which stores any chemicals accessible. The metabolic rate...
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...FIN NO : G1202814N LECTURE DELIVERED BY : MR JAMES COURSE TITLE : FOOD AND BEVERAGE DIPLOMA CONTENTS * FOOD SAFETY * FOOD SAFETY CHECKLIST * WORK SAFETY * Biological hazards * Chemical hazards * WORK SAFETY CHECKLIST * NUTRITION AND DIETETICS * NUTRITION * Carbohydrate * Fats * Vitamins * Minerals * Water * NUTRITION DIETETIC FOOD SAYETY AND HYGIENE FOOD SAFETY Food safety is the condition which ensures that food will not cause harm to the consumer when prepared and/or eaten according to their intended use. Food safety is a scientific discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness Safety is one of four basic groups of features along with nutrition, the organoleptic, and commercial make up the food quality .Food safety is responsible those who handle and prepared food commercially delivery to consumers who prepare and eat food in their home. IMPORTANCE OF FOOD SAFETY As everyone must eat food to live, everyone is at risk of getting food poisoning. Businesses are required to make sure the food they handle, store, display and sell is safe and suitable for people to eat...
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