Explain various steps involved in nutrition.


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The various steps involved in nutrition are as follows: 

1. Ingestion: It is the introduction of food into mouth, i.e. intake of food (eating) inside the body. 

2. Digestion: The process during which the complex, non-diffusible and nonabsorbable food substances are converted into simple, diffusible and absorbable substances by the action of enzymes is called digestion. 

3. Absorption: The process of diffusion of digested food into blood and lymph is called absorption. 

4. Assimilation: The process by which protoplasm is synthesized into each cell of the body by utilizing simple food substances are called assimilation. 

5. Egestion: The elimination of undigested food from the body is called egestion.

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