chapter 1

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1.1 Nutrients in Food

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De you feel hungry looking at the difterent types of food in the

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photograph on the previous page? Feeling hungry isa sign a that ou

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bodies need food. Our bodies depend on food to give us enetgy to

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move around and carry out mportant hte processes

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Food provides us with:

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energy to do work

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bodies:

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of damaged cells;

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the materials needed for the growth of new cells and the repar

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diseases

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substances that our bodies need for health and resisting

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carbotydrates

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Food stores energy and contans nutnents which are essen:i

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oRr bodies. The ditferent types of nutients in food may

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classified as follows:

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Tfats

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prote

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fibre

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and cary out the vital

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Vitains.

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functions in our

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Amincals

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water.

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Carbohydrates

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Most Ivpes of food contain a mix of different nutrients. However.

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certain types of food are richer in particular nutrients than

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others.

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Carbohydrates supply our bodies with most of the energy that

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we need. Carbohydrates are compounds made up of the elements

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carbon

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hydrogen and oxygen. Carbohydrates include sugars and

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complex carbohydrates. Sugars include simple sugars such as

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glucose and fructose

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and complex sugars such as lactose (from

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milk)

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maltose and sucrose (cane sugar). Cellulose

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up plant cell walls

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and starch are complex carbohydrates.