Importance of Nutrition
Nutrients
Food Guidelines
Nutrition Label
Other types of Nutrients
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The process by which your body takes in and uses food.
What is nutrition?
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Starches and sugars found in foods, which provide your body's main source of energy.
What is carbohydrates?
100
An interactive guide to healthful eating and active living.
What is My pyramid?
100
Substances added to a food to produce a desired effect.
What is food additives?
100
Compounds found in food that help regulate many body processes.
What is vitamins?
200
Substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy.
What is nutrients?
200
A tough complex carbohydrate that the body cannot digest.
What is fiber?
200
Food that has a high ratio of nutrients to calories.
What is nutrient-dense foods?
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Another term for food poisioning.
What is foodborne illness.
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Elements found in food that are used by the body.
What is minerals?
300
A unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and the energy it receives from food.
What is a calorie?
300
Nutrients the body uses to build and maintain its cells and tissues.
What is protein?
300
The five major food groups...
What is grains, vegetables, dairy, fruit, and meat?
300
Treating a substance with heat to kill or slow the growth of pathogens.
What is paseurization?
300
A condition in which the bones become fragile and break easily.
What is osteoporosis?
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The natural physical drive to eat, prompted by the body's need for food.
What is hunger?
400
A waxy, fatlike substance.
What is cholesterol?
400
A set of recommendations about smart eating and physical activity for all Americans.
What is the dietary guidelines for americans?
400
The spreading of pathogens from one food to another.
What is cross contamination?
400
A nutrient that is necessary for healthy bones.
What is calcium?
500
The psychological desire for food.
What is appetite?
500
The three types of fats...
What is unsaturated fat, saturated fat, ad trans fat
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Kinds of foods that are best to avoid or limit.
What is fats?
500
A condition in which the body's immune system reacts to substances in some foods.
What is a food allergy?
500
Moving food through the digestive system, transporting nutrients and removing wastes, and cooling the body through perspiration are functions of...
What is water?
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