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8 Pathways of nutrients

What can happen to nutrients once they enter the body?

  • Ingestion: To eat, typically orally
  • Digestion: Chemical breakdown of nutrients requiring enzymes to get smaller pieces (small enough to be absorbed)
  • Absorption: Passing of nutrients through small intestinal wall into the inside of the body (into one of two transportation systems)
  • Transportation: Act of carrying nutrients in the vascular or lymphatic system First four pathways generally occur in order
  • Metabolism: process where nutrients are broken down to yield energy (work, heat) or rearranged into body structure

    End products of metabolism = Energy (ATP) + H2O + CO2(carbon dioxide)

  • Interaction- One/Many nutrients working with other nutrients
  • Storage: Keeping nutrients for later use
  • Excretion: Eliminating nutrients, majority through urine and feces
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