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| a chemical substance found in foods and used in the human body. can be absorbed to give body energy, help strengthen bones or even prevent some diseases. |
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| What are the five essential nutrients for a human diet. |
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Essential amino acids
Essential fatty acids
Minerals
Most vitamins
Water
they cannot be synthesized by the body and have to be ingested. |
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| What is the difference between the 11 non-essential amino acids, and the 9 essential amino acids iin the human diet. |
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| 9 amino acids cannot be synthesized in the body because the DNA sequences necessary to make them are not present in the human genome. The 11 amino acids can be synthesized in the body and are called non-essential amino acids. |
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| What is protein deficiency? |
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| when a person is not getting enough of a certain nutrient, and this causes a health problem. |
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| an imbalance in the diet, which leads to one or more diseases. |
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| What is the sickness Kwashiorkor |
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| a disease resulting from malnutrition common among children in poorer nations. it is what happens to the first-born child when a second child is born. The mother breastfeeds the younger child first and may not have enough milk for the elder child. |
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| what are the two essential fatty acids in a diet? |
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| Why are essential minerals essential? |
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| they are essential chemical elements (stimulate chemical reactions to take place/metabolism) |
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| chemically diverse carbon compounds that cannot be synthesized by the body |
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| Humans cannot synthesize vitamin C. A variety of symptoms develop as a result of vitamin C deficiency, which are collectively known as scurvy. |
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| Why is vitamin D essential and what happen |
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