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| The crucial job that the food does is to supply ____________ to the body's working cells. |
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| Where does that energy come from? |
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| Where do the animals, which we eat, get their solar energy? |
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| Our body breaks down complex plants' molecules into smaller units which get through the walls of the intestine and reach the ____________ cells where they are needed. |
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| proteins, carbohydrates, and fats |
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| The three main elements in our food are ____________, ____________, and ____________. |
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| Proteins, found in meat, are made up of long chains of ____________ essential for building up our own cells. |
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| The amino acid chains have to be rearranged in a different way inside our bodies, so they first have to be chopped up into seperate liks by ____________ in the digestive system. |
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| We get carbohydrates, starch, and sugar from both ____________ and ____________. |
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| Carbohydrates are used for ____________ since they can be turned into glucose. |
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| Carbohydrates are made up of different varieties of ____________ lined together, but we can only absorb them when they are broken down into smaller units. |
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| Which of the three main elements of food provides a "long term store", and has to be broken down into very small droplets before we can absorb them? |
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| ____________ our food before we eat it stars the breaking down process outside our bodies. |
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| Where does the initial breakdown of the food within the body start? |
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| What organ pummels and squeezes the food into smaller fragments? |
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| The food is pushed in small amounts by waves of muscular contractions into the ____________, the first part of the small intestine. |
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| Where does the main chemical breakdown of our food begin? |
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| the food arriving from the stomach |
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| What triggers the release of the digestive juices? |
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| What parts of the digestive juices set to work simultaneous on their own particular task of breaking down proteins, carbohydrates and fats? |
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| The ____________, located behind the stomach, produces some of the most powerful digestive juices. |
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| Bile is produced in the ____________ and stored in the ____________. |
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| ____________ is released into the deodenum and helps break the fat down into smaller droplets. |
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| Before our cells can get to the food, it has to cross the walls of the 17 feet or more of the ____________. |
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| The intestine is a complex organ with a ____________ circulation to carry away food molecules and an active muscle wall which massages the food relentlessly onward. |
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| What are the involuntary contractions of the intestinal wall called? |
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| The ____________ of the intestine increase its surface area so more food molecules can be absorbed more efficiently. |
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| ____________ are carred away down a channel in the center of the villus while the rest of the food molecules are absorbed into the blood circulation. |
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| The blood vessels carry the food to the ____________, the largest organ of our bodies (3-1/2 lbs), where the molecules of food are turned into substances that we can use in our cells. |
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| The liver is an energy store for ____________, a chemical plant for sythesizing substances, such as blood clotting proteins, a supply depot for iron and vitamins, a factory for producing bile too help break down fats and a power station which produces heat as a by-product of its manufacturing activity. |
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| The liver is an energy store for glucose, a chemical plant for sythesizing substances, such as ____________ proteins, a supply depot for iron and vitamins, a factory for producing bile too help break down fats and a power station which produces heat as a by-product of its manufacturing activity. |
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| The liver is an energy store for glucose, a chemical plant for sythesizing substances, such as blood clotting proteins, a supply depot for ____________ and ____________ , a factory for producing bile too help break down fats and a power station which produces heat as a by-product of its manufacturing activity. |
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| The liver is an energy store for glucose, a chemical plant for sythesizing substances, such as blood clotting proteins, a supply depot for iron and vitamins, a factory for producing ____________ too help break down fats and a power station which produces heat as a by-product of its manufacturing activity. |
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| The liver is an energy store for glucose, a chemical plant for sythesizing substances, such as blood clotting proteins, a supply depot for iron and vitamins, a factory for producing bile too help break down fats and a power station which produces ____________ as a by-product of its manufacturing activity. |
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| How many hours does it take for potatoes and other carbohydrates to be turned into food that our cells can use? |
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| Glucose is stored in the liver as ____________ until it is needed to be converted into sugar for energy. |
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| In the colon, the final 5 feet of the intestine, ____________ is squeezed out and reabsorbed through its wall. |
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| About 1/3 of the weight of the feces is ____________ which help by synthesizing vitamins from the remnants of our food. |
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