BODY COMPARTMENTS & SOURCES OF ENERGY

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THREE COMPARTMENTS OF THE BODY

1st
ACTIVE TISSUE

2nd
SUPPORTING TISSUE

3rd
ENERGY RESERVE
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ACTIVE TISSUE CELL MASS

IT DOES MOST OF THE CHEMICAL WORK OF THE BODY

SUPPORTING TISSUE
COMPOSED OF:

1. Bone minerals

2. Extracellular proteins

3. Extracellular fluid in the blood and lymph =

internal environment
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ENERGY RESERVE

COMPOSED OF:

FAT
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LIES ROUND THE PRINCIPAL INTERNAL ORGANS AND IN ADIPOSE TISSUE

AGE, SEX AND HEALTH VARY BODY COMPOSITION

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BODY
COMPOSITION
IN A HEALTHY
YOUNG MAN

Healthy and young women are twice as fat as men

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SOURCES OF ENERGY

 FUELS OF THE BODY

 TAKEN IN THE BODY

FOUND IN:
Cereal grains
Dairy products
Vegetable oils
Meat
Fish
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CARBOHYDRATES Principal source of energy in most diets

Carbohydrates
taken in
1 Converted into
glucose in the
bloodstream
2

The liver reconverts

glycogen into glucose when Excess glucose converted
blood sugar concentration into glycogen in the
falls 4 3 liver
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FATS ARE THE SECOND LARGEST

SOURCE OF ENERGY IN MOST DIETS

If excess carbohydrate is taken in This can be converted into fat and stored

STORED IN
Adipose tissue
Internal organs

Excess Carbohydrate Utilized when the

Fat stored in liver if empty of
carbohydrate converted
the liver glycogen
ingested into fat
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PROTEINS FORM THE MAIN SOURCE OF ENERGY IN SOME DIETS

ESSENTIAL FOR GROWTH AND REBUILDING OF TISSUE

CAN BE UTILIZED AS A SOURCE OF ENERGY

CANNOT BE STORED FOR FUTURE USE CARBS AND FATS

When proteins are ingested AMINOACIDS are AMINOACIDS not used by

our body breaks them down absorbed into the blood the body are excreted in
into AMINOACIDS and pass round the body the urine as urea
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