Chapter 1: What is Nutrition? What Drives Our Food Choices? We Need to Eat and Drink to Live Nutrients: compounds in foods that sustain your body processes. There are 6 classes of nutrients: carbs‚ fats (lipids)‚ proteins‚ vitamins‚ minerals and water 3 of 6 classes of nutrients: carbohydrates‚ fats‚ protein- provide energy in the form of kilocalories 2 of 6 classes of nutrients: vitamins and minerals‚ help regulate many body processes‚ including metabolism 1 of 6 class of nutrients- water
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and related legitimate practices‚ without necessarily validating those beliefs or practices." It also defines religious intolerance as "a) Refusing to acknowledge and support the right of individuals to have their own beliefs and related legitimate practices. b) Also‚ the unwillingness to have one’s own beliefs and related practices critically evaluated." Religious intolerance can have drastic effects on the person the teen grows to be. In the Columbine massacre (1999)‚ two young boys went around
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of this has been pushed along by government programs and food companies looking to make a quicker profit‚ at the cost of the health of their customers. Corn is no longer corn. Covered in chemicals‚ inedible until processed‚ the production of high fructose corn syrup‚ the loss of small family farms‚ it’s damage to the environment‚ and its use as cattle feed are a few of the reasons this new era of corn needs to be changed. The documentary King Corn follows two guys fresh out of college as they travel
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Cited: Fitzgerald‚ Randall. The Hundred-Year Lie. New York‚ NY: Penguin Group‚ 2006. Print. Parker‚ Hilary. "A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high- fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain." Princeton University. News at Princeton‚ 22 Mar 2010. Web. 13 Apr 2011. <http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/>. Richards‚ Byron. Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA
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concentration. Materials and Methods Effect of pH on Enzyme Activity. 1. Dependent Variable. amount of product (glucose and fructose) produced 2. Independent Variable. pH 3. Controlled Variables. temperature; amount of substrate (sucrose) present; sucrase + sucrose incubation time Effect of Temperature on Enzyme Activity. 1. Dependent Variable. amount of product (glucose and fructose) produced 2. Independent Variable. temperature 3. Controlled Variables. pH; amount of substrate (sucrose) present;
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the calories needed by the body. The second thing about obesity in the United States is that people don’t know what is in the food. When people buy from store or restaurant‚ don’t know what is in this food. For example‚ fructose is one of the reason because fructose send a signal to the brain to make people feel hungry. Another reason is processed food. That means companies that produce the food put unhealthy ingredients in the product. For example‚ the company when it produces the food
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Holzel’s entity. Congenital sucrose intolerance due to sucrose malabsorption was first reported in 1960 by Weijers et al. in three children‚ in one of whom maltose tolerance was also poor [27‚77]. Five patients with sucrose intolerance described by Prader et al. in 1961 [22] were later shown to have an additional intolerance to isomaltose and palatinose [23-251 which are split by the same enzyme [26]. A total of thirty-four cases of congenital sucrose intolerance have increased absorption of intact
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up energy during photosynthesis; they merely convert it from light energy to chemical energy. This is an illustration of: a. The first law of thermodynamics 3. Which would be an example of catalyst in action? a. A protein converting glucose and fructose into sucrose without being changed itself 4. Which of the following describes a transition state molecule? a. The distorted shape the substrate takes when being converted by an enzyme into product 5. Before starch can be used for cellular respiration
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compounds contain carbon and usually hydrogen. ~Inorganic compounds do not contain carbon and hydrogen. 3.2.2 ~ Glucose Fatty Acid 3.2.3 Monosaccharide ~-the basic unit of carbohydrates -the simplest form of sugar -Glucose‚ Galactose‚ Fructose ~disaccharides have the chemical formula C12H22O11‚ consist of two monosaccharides which are joined by the process of dehydration synthesis (during while a molecule of water is formed) -Maltose‚ Lactose‚ Sucrose ~ polysaccharides polymers
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The Calvin Cycle Plants use energy from the sun in tiny energy factories called chloroplasts. Using chlorophyll in the process of photosynthesis‚ they convert the sun’s energy into storable form in ordered sugar molecules such as glucose. In this way‚ carbon dioxide from the air and water from the soil in a more disordered state are combined to form the more ordered sugar molecules. Carbon dioxide is captured in a cycle of reactions known as the Calvin cycle or the Calvin-Benson cycle after
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