Today: Food

1. Today: Food

2. Updated Class Schedule: Week of 4/4 Grizzly Bears and Nutrition Week of 4/11 Sensing and Responding...

3. Bears Humans Both humans and grizzly bears are omnivores. Our digestive systems can tell us about our ancestors. Fig 41.19

4. During digestion complex molecules are broken down and then used to build needed molecules and to produce energy

5. Animals take in complex molecules from the environment for energy production

6. Animal digestion occurs outside of our cells.

7. animal and fungal digestion occurs outside of our cells.

8. CB 41.13 Physical digestion: liquefying of food Chemical digestion: breaking large molecules into small molecules

9. Cb 41.11 Chewing and adding saliva begins the process of liquification Amylase in mouth Amylase begins the chemical digestion of carbs

10. CB 41.10 The primary function of the stomach is food storage

11. In the stomach liquification continues. CB 41.12 Pepsin in stomach Pepsin begins the chemical digestion of proteins.

12. CB 41.10 The Digestive System

13. CB 41.15 Most chemical digestion occurs in the first part of the small intestine

14. CB 41.15 The small intestine has a large surface area to aid in absorbption of nutrients

15. CB 41.15 Absorption in the Small Intestine

16. CB 41.10 The Digestive System

17. CB 41.11

18. CB41.19 Bears Humans Both humans and grizzly bears are omnivores. Our digestive systems can tell us about our ancestors.

19. Chimps commonly hunt small animals including other smaller primates. Hunting encourages cooperative behavior and may help produce more cohesive and advanced societies. http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~stanford/chimphunt.html

20. Percent of resting metabolic rate needed for brain (adults): Human = 20-25% Other primates = 8-10% Nonprimate mammals = 3-5% Leonard WR, Robertson ML. 1994. Evolutionary perspectives on human nutrition: the influence of brain and body size on diet and metabolism. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 6:77–88

21. Brain size, body size, and molar (grinding) tooth area Table 2 Annual Review of Nutrition Vol. 27: 311-327 Effects of Brain Evolution on Human Nutrition and Metabolism

22. Food Web

23. Ecological Interconnections

24. CB54.11 Producers and Consumers

25. CB54.11 Higher consumers are usually larger and fewer in number than lower consumers

26. CB 55.10 Energy is lost in each consumer 1000

27. CB 55.10 Energy is lost as it is consumed: where does it go? 1000

28. only a small percent of energy from plants enters the food chain

29. CB 55.9 only a small percent of energy is stored in organism

30. CB 55.10 Energy is lost in each consumer: the 10% rule

31. In the U.S. we eat an avg. of ~2800 Cal/day • We produce ~3774 Cal/person/day • So we waste over 25% of the food we produce http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/03/theres-more-energy-i.html

32. In the U.S. we eat an avg. of ~2800 Cal/day • We produce ~3774 Cal/person/day • So we waste over 25% of the food we produce • 8,080,000,000,000,000 btu to produce our food (quadrillion) • 2,030,000,000,000,000 btu of this energy is wasted Wasted Food, Wasted Energy: The Embedded Energy in Food Waste in the United States. Amanda D. Cullar, Michael E. Webber (2010) Environmental Science & Technology DOI: 10.1021/es100310d

33. In the U.S. we eat an avg. of ~2800 Cal/day • We produce ~3774 Cal/person/day • So we waste over 25% of the food we produce • 8,080,000,000,000,000 btu to produce our food • 2,030,000,000,000,000 btu of this energy is wasted= ~2% of total U.S. energy production Wasted Food, Wasted Energy: The Embedded Energy in Food Waste in the United States. Amanda D. Cullar, Michael E. Webber (2010) Environmental Science & Technology DOI: 10.1021/es100310d

34. CB 55.10 Energy is lost in each consumer: the 10% rule

35. Human impact: As consumers

36. Use of agriculture in the U.S.About 1/2 of water and ~80% of agricultural land is used for raising animals.

37. Fossil Fuels: Producing beef consumes over 100 times more fossil fuel than producing potatoes. The typical American could save almost as much gas by going vegetarian as by not driving. http://bicycleuniverse.info/transpo/beef.html

38. Updated Class Schedule: Week of 4/4 Grizzly Bears and Nutrition Week of 4/11 Sensing and Responding...