The amount of energy released when nutrients are broken down.
What is a calorie?
100
Any action or condition that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or other negative outcome.
What is a risk factor?
100
Nutrients your body uses as a source of energy.
What are carbohydrates, fats, and proteins?
100
The inability to digest a particular food or food additive.
What is a food intolerance?
100
Adults who have a BMI of 30 or higher.
What is the definition of obesity?
200
These are good sources of energy, found in grain products, and composed of sugars linked together.
What are complex carbohydrates?
200
The degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.
What is quality of life?
200
The order that food ingredients on a food label are listed.
What is weight from most to least?
200
The rate at which you use energy when your body is at rest.
What is your basal metabolic rate?
200
This leads to health problems such as anemia, heart irregularities, and trouble regulating body temperature.
What is being underweight?
300
These play a huge role in growth and repair of your body's tissues.
What are proteins?
300
When you can find, understand, and use health information to improve your health.
What is health literacy?
300
The number of nutrients your body requires.
What is 40?
300
When you eat a nutritional healthy diet and exercise regularly as a way of losing weight.
What is a healthy weight loss plan?
300
The condition you can get if you have excess glucose in your blood.
What is diabetes?
400
Two minerals that work together to maintain water balance in the body.
What are sodium and potassium?
400
A gradual progression through many stages between one extreme and another.
What is a health continuum?
400
Fats made when manufacturers add hydrogen to the fat molecules in vegetable oils.
What are trans fats?
400
Daily values are calculated for the average person who consumes a total of this many calories per day.
What are 2,000 calories?
400
This leads to high blood pressure, excess cholesterol in the blood, excess glucose in the blood, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and certain cancers.
What is being overweight?
500
The recommended fat intake per day.
What is 20 to 35 percent?
500
You immediately get injured in a car accident.
What is an example of a short term consequence?
500
Nutrients that contain nitrogen as well as carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.