Nutrients
This nutrient makes up the greatest percentage of the body.
What is water?
Fat-soluble vitamins are absorbed by this.
What is fat?
What are A, K, D and E?
Name some factors that lead to food choices/ preferences.
What are emotions, culture, taste, age, family, social circles, genetics?
Units of energy that supply few or no nutrients to the body.
What are empty calories?
A tool used to determine if a person's weight is healthy for that person's height.
What is body mass index (BMI)
This nutrient is the body's major source of energy. It is found in fruits, vegetables, grains and dairy products.
What is carbohydrates?
This type of vitamin passes through the bloodstream during digestion and are used immediately by the body or removed by the kidneys during urination.
What are water-soluble vitamins?
B and C
This was created by the USDA to help people put the Dietary Guidelines for Americans into practice.
What is My Plate?
Name a food that provides protein.
Name a food that contains fiber.
Protein: animal-based foods, fish, dairy, soybeans, beans, tofu, nuts, seeds.
Fiber: plant based foods: fruit, veggies, whole grain, does not provide the body with energy but has many health benefits.
Lack of proper nutrition caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough of the right things, or being unable to use the food that one does eat is known as? Name two forms
What is malnutrition. Undernutrition and overnutrition
This is a complex carbohydrate that the body can't completely break down.
What is dietary fiber?
Name a mineral that when lacking causes weakness, fatigue and headaches.
What is Irons?
The difference between hunger and appetite.
What is need for hunger and want for appetite.
Chains of glucose linked together are known as this, give examples.
What are complex carbohydrates? grains, bread, cereal, rice and pasta. Some vegetables with starch: potatoes, peas and corn.
The ratio of the various components- fat, bone, & muscle- that make up the body; influenced by genetics, eating patterns, and physical activity.
What is body composition?
This nutrient is used by the body to build and maintain its cells, tissues, including muscles, bones, skin, hair, fingernails and other organs. It also provides energy.
What is proteins?
This mineral is found in a food group that you should have 3 C of per day. You need it to have a healthy skeletal, muscular, and cardiac system.
What is Calcium?
Name the five food groups included in dietary guidelines.
What are: Fruits, Grains, Vegetables, Dairy, Protein.
Conditions in which a person's body can't properly digest particular types of food; can develop gradually as a person eats large quantities of a certain food frequently.
What is food intolerances?
Carbohydrates and protein each provide this number of calories per gram, while fat provides this number of calories per gram.
What is 4 grams for carbs and proteins and 9 grams for fat?
This nutrient is largely made up of fatty acids providing valuable sources of energy, particularly for muscles. Name the 3 types.
What is fats?
Saturated, Unsaturated and Trans fats
Inorganic nutrients absorbed from plants, water and animal food sources.
What are minerals?
Foods that provide vitamins, minerals, and other substances that either contribute tp adequate nutrition intake or have positive health effects; contain little or no saturated fats, added sugars and sodium. Name examples.
What is nutrient-dense foods.
eggs, avocado, liver, spinach, sweet potatoes, vegetables.
Condition in which the body's immune system reacts to a food as if the food is harmful, sudden symptoms can by caused by tiny amounts of the food.
Name common foods affecting people.
What is food allergy?
milk, eggs, fish, nuts, wheat
This type of carbohydrate is broken down quickly by the body and is used as energy. It's found naturally in foods like fruit and milk products
What are simple carbohydrates?