Human Nutrition

Question 1

What is diet?

Answer 1

The food eaten in one day

Question 2

What is a balanced diet

Answer 2

A balanced diet is a diet that contains all of the required nutrients in suitable portions for the right amount of energy

Question 3

Peristalsis

Answer 3

Rhythmical muscular contractions that move food through the alimentary canal

Question 4

Fats and oils

Answer 4

Is needed to make cell membranes and is stored in the adipose tissue and acts around the body’s organs such as kidneys providing as mechanical protection for them

We find fats and oils in meat, dairy products and oily fish

Question 5

Proteins

Answer 5

Proteins are needed to build cells for growth it is also needed to make haemoglobin insulin ( a hormone) and antibodies ( which destroys pathogens)
We find proteins in meat fish eggs diary products nuts beans and seeds

Question 6

Vitamins

Answer 6

Vitamins are organic substances which are taken in small amounts without vitamins you can get a vitamin deficiency disease

Question 7

The digestive system

Answer 7

The digestive system is a group of organs that carries out the digestion of food

Question 8

What do artery’s do?

Answer 8

They carry blood away from the heart

Question 9

Why does a vein have smaller pressure?

Answer 9

Because they have a bigger lumen

Question 10

Artery high or low pressure?

Answer 10

High pressure as it is carrying blood away from the heart