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Could your body use food if you could not get oxygen?

Without oxygen, your body will die. If you die, you have no need for food. Food does not contain oxygen that could be used in this case.


What does the body cell need to function?

food, water, and oxygen


What does oxygen do in your body apart from breathing?

Your cells need oxygen to turn food into energy, reproduce, and basically perform all of their tasks.


What does the body need to survive?

The body needs water, food, oxygen, and shelter to survive. Water is essential for hydration and bodily functions, food provides energy and nutrients, oxygen is needed for respiration, and shelter protects the body from environmental hazards.


For what does your body need iron providing food?

Iron is an important component for the parts of our blood that transports oxygen.


Can you live with hydrogen and oxygen instead of H2O?

No, you would need energy to combine hydrogen and oxygen into H2O


How does oxygen contaminate foods?

You need to give more information wether you want to know that does oxygen is required in cooking food? or is oxygen present in food and used by body? Answer to 1st: Yes oxygen required to cook food. Combustion of fuel takes place in presence of oxygen. Answer to 2nd: Yes food contain some of oxygen from air but there is no consumption of oxygen from food.


What is the element you need to breathe?

Well their are over 100 types of elements and the one we need to breathe with is oxygen.


Does everything in your body need air?

its not so much the air that you need. but you do need something that is in it. oxygen is like a food for cells. the blood carys the oxygen around the body. there is also carbon dioxide (C02) in air. and that's what you breath out.but not everything, but most things.


Why does your body have to digest food?

The food that we eat it in complex forms. Hence we need to break down the complex nutrients to simpler ones so that they can be absorbed by our body. Finally this stored food reacts with oxygen to provide energy.


Why do cells need food and oxygen?

Food serves as a source of raw materials from which the cells of the body can synthesize new molecules, provides living things with the chemical building blocks they need to grow and reproduce, and as a source of energy. Oxygen is used to break down glucose in the process of cellular respiration. Food and oxygen is how cells get their energy. When the nutrients combine with oxygen, energy is released. The process is similar to burning or how a car engine gets its energy. There is a chemical reaction which releases energy.


Why are pulmonary arteries important to bringing oxygen to your body?

because you need oxygen throughout your body