HUMAN

NUTRITION
DIET

By Marisca Fernandes
 The last meal you ate today

THINK Food you typically eat in a day

DRAW A PIE CHART
ABOUT
Was it healthy enough?

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Balanced
Diet
A diet that has all the
essential nutrients in the
right amounts

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What are the

essential nutrients
and why is each
important?
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Total energy must be sufficient for: 6

to keep our internal body to keep up our body to meet the needs of
processes working temperature work and other activities
Mechanical Digestion

How? What is it?

Mainly occurs in the mouth by
Breakdown of food into smaller
means of the teeth
pieces without chemical change
Through a process called
to the food molecules
mastication
It increases the surface area of
food for the action of enzymes in
chemical digestion

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Types of teeth
Types of teeth
Internal Structure
WHAT IS?

Mechanical Chemical
Digestion Digestion
Chemical
digestion
is the process of breaking
down large insoluble molecules
to small soluble molecules
Digestion, absorption and assimilation are key process that provide us with energy
Peristalsis
A contraction in one region of the
alimentary canal is followed by
another contraction just below

A wave of contraction passes

along the canal, pushing food in
front of it

The wave of contraction is called

peristalsis
QUESTIONS
QUESTIONS
 How cholera
causes
diarrhoea

Causative agent: Vibrio cholera