Define malnutrition and identify a specific disease that can result from it. Perform library research about the selected disease, and explain its physiological effects on a person's body.

Make a list of your favorite snack foods. Then make a listing of the fat content in each. Decide what snack foods you should reduce or eliminate from your diet. Think of at least two replacement foods for these snacks. List what benefit these replacement foods will have on your overall health?

Put the following terms in their correct order from the simplest to the most complex. Skin cell, Integumentary system , Epithelial tissue, Stem cell , Skin, Organism The stomach produces hydrochloric acid which increases the acidity of the stomach to digest the food. However, the small intestine are not damaged by strongly acidic food coming from the stomach. How does our body avoids damaging the small intestine with this strongly acidic food passes out of the stomach?

Describe protein digestion by location: mouth, stomach, small intestine, enterocyte, large intestine. Define zymogen/proenzyme. Describe each key enzyme in protein digestion (including how each are activated). Describe the function and importance of enteropeptidase. Describe the function and importance of trypsin. Know the difference between an endogenous and exogenous peptidase. Describe the functions of brush border peptidases and cytosolic peptidases. Describe absorption of peptides and absorption of amino acid (they are different). Describe different fates of amino acids once they are absorbed and released into circulation. Describe what can happen if protein is not absorbed properly.

Suggest foods that would be beneficial for an adolescent stage of life you selected and explain why.

Elaborate the term FODMAP. Which nutrients are usually referred to as saccharides? Fodmap eating patterns are recommended to relieve certain digestive symptoms. Do you think this to be true? What digestive disorders may require a fodmap eating plan? Generally, do patients receive a recommendation for a high fodmap or a low fodmap eating plan? Which part of the digestive tract is most affected in a diagnosis called IBS?