Write a 350- to 700-word summary describing the path food follows through the digestive system. Address the following questions in your summary: • What factors affect the amount of time it takes for foods to travel through the digestive tract? • How does digestion occur in each of the following parts of the digestive system? o Mouth o Stomach o Small intestine o Large intestine Note. Include descriptions of other organs or components of the digestive system
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3-Day Diet Analysis Week 1 assignment 10/21/2012 SCI/241 Cassandra Cook I know that my eating habits are not that great. I work at a fast food restaurant full time so mainly my lunches are fast food. Lately‚ I have not been eating as much of what I usually due since becoming pregnant and I want to provide best for my unborn child. I like a lot of canned foods though such as chicken noodle soup and raviolis. I know there is not much nutrients in canned foods though. When I make dinners for
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Nutrition Graded Project Part 1: Reading Food Labels 1. 1 cup 2. 3 3. 690 kcal 4. 39% 5. 20% 6. 45% 7. 16% 8. 16% 9. 3g 10. 730 mg 11. Carbs 12. Processed grains because of the amount of calories in it. 13. Because it’s made from noodles‚ which hold a lot of carbs. Part 2: Calculating Target Body Weight 1. 175 * .35 = 61 lbs 2. 175 – 61 = 114 lbs 3. 114/.7 = 162.8 lbs 4. 175 – 162.8 = 12.2; 12.2 * 3‚500 = 42‚700 calories would be need to be burned off. 5. Desired Body Weight Starting Value
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Mineral and Water Function Essay Hailee Merkel SCI/241 January 20‚ 2013 Tiffany Edgar You may not realize exactly how important minerals are to us‚ but they actually play a huge role in our bodies. Not only do they take part in the structure of our body‚ but also help with regulation of the processes that maintains life. In reality there are 20 minerals that play a way bigger role than I ever knew in how healthy your body is and stays. Some minerals have a specific role it plays‚ where
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Human Digestion Summary SCI 241 August 8‚ 2013 Human Digestion Summary We all love to eat. I remember my parents used to tell me that in order for my food to digest properly‚ I would have to chew it one hundred times on both side to make it small as possible. They said that if the food was smaller it could digest quicker and easier. But most people do not know what happens to their food after they have chewed it up and swallowed it. Some may think that right after the food is swallowed‚ it
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develop a two-week personal exercise plan. In my two- week fitness plan‚ I discuss the FITT principle‚ which stands for frequency‚ intensity‚ time‚ and type. Frequency involves how often I would perform the physical activity. Intensity is how hard I work out during my physical activity. Timing is the length‚ or how long I plan to work out and the last T in the FITT principle stands for the type of exercise I want to do‚ such as cardio or strength training. I incorporated FITT into my two-week personal
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Understanding Food Labels SCI/241 Understanding Food Labels The 5/20 rule is a healthy formula that an individual can follow to make sure that they are receiving the proper daily percentage in a serving. The 5/20 rule is making sure that if a serving of a particular nutrient is within an individual’s particular need. An example would be I am watching my saturated fat intake and carbohydrates. I have an 18 ounce jar of Jif Omega-3 peanut butter. There are 15 servings in a jar. A single serving
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the Center for Disease Control and Prevention‚ intake of protein varies by age and gender. Children between the ages of 1 - 3 need to consume at least 13 grams of protein per day. Children between four and eight need 19 grams and those between ages 9 and 13 need 34 grams. At the age of 14‚ the intake levels between men and women become different. Females between ages of 14 and 18 need 46 and males need 52. Females between age 19 and up need 46 and males need 56. The differences in protein levels
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Unit 9 Final Project CJ100:Preparing For A Career In Public Saftey Ken Balduf I believe as I reflect on the things that we went through in the course and the other things I’ve researched on the internet there were a lot of different populations that the criminal justice system serves. One thing that I have seen is a need to fix the overcrowding in most of the prisons and jails in the United States. There seems to be to many misdemeanor and non-violent crimes in the corrections division
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Fat and Water-Soluble Vitamins Eric Lopez 05/04/2013 SCI/241 There are two categories of vitamins needed in the human body. The first are water-soluble vitamins‚ such as B/B-complex and C. The second category is fat-soluble vitamins‚ such as vitamins A‚ D‚ E‚ and K. Water-soluble vitamins are absorbed in the intestine. Once the intestine absorbs them‚ the circulatory system carries them to certain tissues. Fat-soluble vitamins are absorbed in the intestines also‚ but the lymph system carries the
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