Feeding - consuming food or items to statisfy hunger.
importance -
1) maintaining proper body(prevent muscles and organs from wasting away)
functioning
2) For brain development
3) to gain energy for activities
<span>The purpose of Food Supplements is to add on a normal diet with nutrients or other substances with nutritional or physiological function. Food supplements may consist of vitamins or minerals, different types of herbs or vegetable extracts, amino acids, fatty acids or fibres in forms of tablets, pills, capsules or liquids in measured doses. There </span><span>are three categories of claims that are defined by statute and/or FDA regulations: health claims, nutrient content claims, and structure/function claims.</span>
The pancreas secretes trypsin and chymotrypsin enzymes which continue breakdown proteins into smaller peptides and some single amino acids. Carboxypeptidase also secreted by the pancreas splits single amino acids from the carboxyl end of proteins.
Bile, which contains a mix salts, is secreted by the liver . Bile salts help to continue digestion of fats by attaching to small fat droplets, preventing them from coalescing into larger droplets, thereby increasing their surface area so that they can be further broken down by lipase enzymes.
A 60-year-old man is at the clinic for an eye examination. The nurse suspects that he has ptosis of one eye. How should the nurse check for this?
- Observe the distance between the palpebral fissures
