Macronutrients
This is the unit we use to measure the amount of energy in the foods we eat.
Calories
This category of Micronutrients, usually labeled with letters, aid in cell production, growth, and development.
Vitamins
This is the base concept on the Pyramid of Nutritional Concepts.
Calories In : Calories Out
This category of Mental Illness typically develops after prolonged exposure to unrealistic standards and an unhealthy view or understanding of one's own body.
Eating Disorders
This spring sport is commonly referred to as "America's pastime"
Baseball
This Macronutrient is digested quickly and is essential for the functioning of our nervous system
Carbohydrates
This category of Micronutrients, with typically elemental-sounding names, help keep your bones, muscles, heart and brain working properly.
Minerals
This is the middle concept on the Pyramid of Nutritional Concepts.
Macronutrient Balance
This piece of data, which is a ratio of height to weight, is often incorrectly used as a health marker for individuals. This is due to it's use as the lone metric for placing populations on a scale of underweight to obese.
Body Mass Index (BMI)
This Sport requires an expensive and highly specialized facility to practice and compete in it. (SMHS has to share the facility of our cross-town rival for practices and competitions)
Swimming
This Macronutrient is the body's favorite source of energy, and is also used to cushion organs and bones, and help regulate body temperature. This is also how energy is stored in the body.
Fats/Lipids
This Micronutrient is essential for all aspects of our health. We would die very quickly without it, even faster than we'd die of hunger!
Water
Although it is often viewed as critically important, this is the least important concept on the Pyramid of Nutritional Concepts.
Macronutrient Quality
A Nutrition Professor in Kansas ran an experiment named after this brand of snack cake to prove that fad diets are largely based on unsustainable caloric restriction and that energy balance is more impactful than food quality.
Twinkies
This Co-Ed sport (meaning boys and girls practice and compete at the same time) is one of the oldest organized sports in the world, and as such has been featured in every single Olympic games in history.
Track and Field
This Macronutrient is used to build and repair cells and tissues in the body. It is made up of 20 different "building blocks".
Proteins
This Mineral helps bind oxygen to your red blood cells so it can travel throughout our body. Without it, we can develop a condition called Anemia.
Iron
Along the side of the Pyramid of Nutritional Concepts, these things will significantly affect all of the ideas on the pyramid.
Lifestyle Choices (Sleep, Stress Management, avoiding drugs/alcohol, etc.)
This industry, know for it's predatory and unrealistic advertising strategies, mainly sells people products for their hygiene (skin care, soaps, shampoos, etc.)
Beauty Industry
This sport is the most historically successful girls program at SMHS, based on the number of total championships won since the school opened.
Softball
This is the number of "Essential" Amino Acids (Amino Acids we need to consume in our food since we cannot make them ourselves).
Nine
This vitamin, found in fish, dairy, and exposure to the outdoors, helps our brain make neurotransmitters and turn calcium in to bone cells.
Vitamin D
In addition to showing all food groups as equally important, the USDA My Pyramid also added this new feature to express a previously under-addressed component of nutrition.
Exercise/Person going up stairs
This is the set of societal norms and expectations that lead people to believe that body size, thinness, "purity" of dietary choices, and physical aesthetic are primary markers of overall health (spoiler: they aren't).
Diet Culture
This sport did not become a CIF Sanctioned sport until 2003, and is modeled after simulated war games that indigenous cultures in the north-east of the continent would use to settle disputes without bloodshed.
Lacrosse