Importance of Nutrition
The process by which your body takes in and uses food.
What is Nutrition?
Compounds found in foods that help regulate many body processes.
What is Vitamins?
Set of recommendation about smart eating and physical activity for all Americans.
What is Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
Substances added to a food to produce a desired effect.
What are Food Additives?
Are unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and the energy it receives from food.
What is calorie?
Elements found in food that are used by the body.
What are Mineral?
An interactive guide to healthful eating and active living.
What is My Plate?
Food Poisoning.
What are Foodborne Illness?
Substances in food that your body needs to grow to repair itself and to supply you with energy.
What are Nutrients?
A condition in which the bones become a fragile and break easily.
What is Osteoporosis?
A high ratio of nutrients to calories.
What is Nutrient-Dense?
Treating a substance with heat to kill or slow the growth of pathogen.
What is Pasteurization?
The natural physical drive to eat prompted by the bodies need for food.
What is Hunger?
Starches and sugars found in foods which provide your bodies main source of energy.
What are Carbohydrates?
Processed foods.
What are foods to avoid?
The spreading of pathogens from one food to another.
What is Cross-Contamination?
The psychological desire for food.
What is Appetite?
A tough complex carbohydrate that the body cannot digest.
What is Fiber?
Carrots are an example.
What are Nutrient-dense foods?
A condition in which the body‘s immune system reacts to substances in some foods.
What are Food Allergies?