Key Terms
When nutrients have been absorbed and carried to the body cells.
What is Metabolism?
the amount of heat produced during metabolism is the way the energy content of food is measured.
What are Calories?
organic compounds
What are Fats?
also known as fats and oils; organic compounds.
What are lipids?
the process in which blood or lymph capillaries pick up the digested nutrients.
What is Absorption?
a sterol lipid found in body cells and animal products.
What is Cholesterol
the process by which the body breaks down food into smaller parts, changes the food chemically, and moves the food through the digestive system.
What is Digestion?
the rate at which the body uses energy just for maintaining its own tissue, without doing any voluntary work.
What is the Basal Metabolic Rate?
the fibrous, indigestible form of plant carbohydrate.
What is Cellulose?
body weight that is 10 to 20 percent greater than the average recommended weight for a person’s height, or a BMI from 25 to 29.9.
What is Overweight?
a calculation that measures weight in relation to height and correlates this with body fat.
What is Body Mass Index?
high blood pressure.
What is Hypertension?
consists of easily digested foods that do not irritate the digestive tract.
What is a Bland Diet?
a form of vitamins that are organic molecules that help protect the body from harmful chemicals called free radicals.
What are antioxidants?
a psychological disorder in which a person alternately binges and then induces vomiting or uses laxatives to get rid of food that has been eaten.
What is Bulimarexia?
modifications of the normal diet and are used to improve specific health conditions.
What are Therapeutic Diets?
The state or condition of one’s condition.
What is Nutritional Status?
organic compounds that are essential to life.
What are Vitamins?
similar to the regular diet, but food must require little chewing and be easy to digest.
What are Soft Diets?
body weight that is 10 to 15 percent less than the average recommended weight for a person’s height, or a BMI less than 18.5
What is Underweight?
commonly called anorexia; a psychological disorder in which a person drastically reduces food intake or refuses to eat at all.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
a rhythmic, wavelike motion of the muscles.
What is Peristalsis?
excessive body weight 20 percent or move above the average recommended weight or a BMI equal to or greater than 30.
What is Obesity?
a psychological disorder in which a person alternately binges and then fasts, or refuses to eat at all; in some cases, a person will exercise excessively after binging.
What is Bulimia?
include both low-calorie and high-calorie diets. Low-calorie diets are frequently used for patients who are overweight. High-calorie diets are frequently used for patients who are underweight or have anorexia nervosa, hyperthyroidism, or cancer.
What are Calorie-controlled Diets?