Nutrition and Digestive System

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Nutrition and Digestive System : Basic constituents of food and their nutritional significance. Vitamins – dietary sources, functions and deficiency symptoms of water and fat soluble vitamins. Structure and functions of the alimentary canal and the digestive glands. Functions of the digestive juices (saliva, gastric juice, pancreatic juice, intestinal juice), Biles.

Digestion and absorption of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins. Diseases – Peptic and Gastric ulcers, Gastritis; fasting and obesity.

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