Vitamins & Minerals
We need this mineral for strong bones and teeth.
What is calcium?
This nutrient is the body's main source of energy and the brain's only source of fuel.
What are carbohydrates?
This fruit is high in potassium and fiber.
What is a banana?
Eggs belong in this food group.
What is protein?
Another term for fullness.
What is satiety?
This food group provides you with calcium.
What is dairy?
Name the six (or seven) nutrients.
What is vitamins, minerals, protein, carbohydrates, fat, and water (bonus: fiber)?
These types of diets can be damaging to our bodies.
What are fad diets?
This food group includes bread, rice, and pasta. This food gives you energy.
What is grains?
This is one way to tell if you are really hungry.
What is hunger cues, shakiness, loss of focus?
This vitamin helps keep your eyes healthy.
What is Vitamin A?
These 3 nutrients can help decrease constipation.
What is fat, fiber, and fluid?
If we do not give our body enough fuel, this will start to slow down.
What is metabolism?
This is an example of a dairy.
What is milk, yogurt, cheese, ice cream?
Define normalized eating.
What is listening to hunger cues, honoring food cravings, having 3 balanced meals daily, etc.?
What is iron?
You need plenty of this before, after, and during exercise.
What is water?
A vegetarian might eat these foods as sources of protein.
What are beans, legumes, nuts, seeds, lentils, tofu, etc.?
An adolescent should have at least 2-2.5 cups of these each day.
What are fruits and vegetables?
Name the two types of fullness.
What are physical and emotional?
This process adds greatly-needed nutrients to foods that might not have had them in the first place.
What is fortifying?
This nutrient helps the body absorb certain vitamins, provides energy, and helps with the taste and texture of foods.
What is dietary fat?
Name something that happens to your body if you exercise frequently without proper nutrition.
What is weak bones, bone fractures, dehydration, loss of menses (period), heart failure?
What is protein?
Explain how appetite may change when eating patterns are not "normal."
Hunger cues may not be present at "normal" times of the day if we are not eating regularly/frequently. Therefore, when adjusting patterns of eating, we cannot use hunger/fullness cues as true guides to eating. We need to practice "mechanical eating."