Digestion and Nutrition

1. Digestion and Nutrition Lesson objective – to understand what the body breaks down during the digestion of food

2. The body – is this female healthy and why?List as many reasons as you can • Lesson objective – to understand what the body breaks down during the digestion of food

3. Protein is needed by the body for what? What are amino acids? • Lesson objective – to understand what the body breaks down during the digestion of food

4. Amino acids • Protein consists of chains of amino acids that are used by our bodies to grow muscles, hair, nails, skin and internal organs. • Proteins control almost every biochemical reaction in the body. Every protein is made from amino acids, which are commonly called the building blocks of life. • All of the nearly 40,000 distinct proteins found in the human body are made up from only 20 amino acids called the proteogenic amino acids. • Lesson objective – to understand what the body breaks down during the digestion of food

5. Task 1 • On your group image I want you to use the theory books and list where and how the body uses the 20 amino acids. • What foods have all the essential amino acids in and which do not • What does HBV and LBV mean? • In the stomach an enzyme is used to break down protein in your stomach what is this? • Lesson objective – to understand what the body breaks down during the digestion of food

6. Carbohydrates • Task 2 – now tell me why we need carbohydrates • What enzymes break down carbohydrates? • What foods provide carbohydrates • Lesson objective – to understand what the body breaks down during the digestion of food

7. Adolescents • Why do you need minerals? • What do they do for the body? • What use are vitamins to the body? • Make a list of A, B, C ,D and F and fill in the details • Explain what will happen if you have a deficiency of some vitamins • Lesson objective – to understand what the body breaks down during the digestion of food