how many ounces of grains should you eat a day for a 2000 calorie diet?
What is 6 oz. everyday.
100
What is the difference between water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins?
What is water-soluble vitamins areable to dissolve in water and fat-soluble vitamins dissolve in fat. Fat-soluble vitamins can be stored in the body whereas water-soluble vitamins are excreted if they are not used.
100
What is malnutrition?
What is the results in the body of poor nutrition; under nutrition, over nutrition, of any nutrition deficiency.
100
Extreme intakes of what cause hypertension?
salt
100
What does calcium help with?
Strong bones and teeth, helps muscles contract and relax, helps nerves communicate, helps blood to clot.
200
What types of meat and poultry should you eat?
What is low-fat or lean meats and poultry.
200
A powder or pill that contains only vitamins is called...
What is a supplement.
200
What is hypertension?
High blood pressure that puts you at risk for heart disease.
200
What is the major function of iron in the body?
carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues of the body.
200
what foods is magnesium found in?
nuts, beans, dark green vegetables, seafood, whole grains, chocolate
300
True or false: to substitute for fruit, you should drink lots of fruit juices...
What is false.
300
What is the earliest sign of vitamin A deficiency?
What is night blindness.
300
What do calories indicate?
how much energy in a food can be used by the body or stored in body fat.
300
This type of carbohydrate should be substituted for simple sugars and is found in whole-grain foods and vegetables
yoCompex carbohydrates.
300
What does copper help with?
helps makes red blood cells, helps build protein helps the body use iron.
400
True of False:
To get Beta-carotene, you should eat lots of dairy.
What is false, you should eat dark green vegetables and deep orange fruits and vegetables.
400
Is Thiamine water-soluble or fat-soluble?
What is water-soluble.
400
what is polyunsaturated fat?
a type of unsaturated fat espeically useful as a replacement for saturated fat in a heart healthy diet.
400
What is the difference between amino acids and essential amino acids?
your body can make amino acids but cannot make essential amino acids.
400
what does sodium do?
maintains cell fluids, helps nerves communicate.
500
How much of your total calories should be fat in your daily diet?
What is 30%, most of which should be unsaturated fat
500
What does vitamin E do for your body? And what is it?
What is protects the body cells from attack by oxygen.
it is an antioxidant.
500
what are free radicals?
chemicals that harm the body's tissues by starting destructive chain reactions in the molecules of the body's cells. Such reactions are believed to trigger or worsen some diseases. Antioxidants protect our bodies from free radical damage.
500
Not having enough fiber in your diet can cause what?