The Function of Oxygen in Nutrition

come to recup wednesday and thursday!Two components of air have an effect on your health

• oxygen
• carbon dioxide

Why do we need oxygen?

• Humans need nutrients to survive
  
• We extract nutrients from food
• We extract nutrients through chemical and mechanical processes
• These processes break down food into smaller nutrients
• These smaller nutrients are then more easily absorbed into our system, by cells, and circulated throughout the body
  

Oxygen helps to break down foods into the smallest possible parts.

• it is required to release the energy found in nutrients

Oxygen allows the energy to be released from carbs, lipids, and proteins

• it makes carbon dioxide as a waste product

The process of oxygen breaking down nutrients happens day after day

• we constantly need oxygen
• we constantly produce carbon dioxide