Nutrients that are made by living things, are required only in small amounts, and that assist many chemical reactions in the body are?
Vitamins
Important in blood clotting and the function of your nervous system. It is an essential ingredient in the formation and maintenance of bones and teeth.
The process of maintaining a steady state inside your body.
Homeostasis
Vitamins that help protect healthy cells from the damage caused by the normal aging process as well as from certain types of cancer.
Together with sodium works together to maintain water balance in the body.
Potassium
This percentage of your body weight is water?
65%
Your body requires only small amounts of a nutrients that occur naturally in rocks and soil.
Mineral
Necessary for healthy red blood cells.
Iron
Water contains this dissolved substances that regulate many processes in your cells.
Electrolytes
A condition in which the red blood cells do not contain enough hemoglobin; if a person’s diet does not include enough iron.
Anemia
Very heavy perspiring or severe diarrhea can result in this or a serious reduction in the body’s water content.
Dehydration
Males in the same age group need _____ cups of water per day.
14
Every day, you need at least ten ____ ounce cups of water if you are a female 14 to 18 years old.
8