The importance of nutrition
The process by which your body takes in and uses food.
What Is nutrition?
Carbohydrates, proteins,fats, vitamins, minerals, and water.
What are the six types of nutrients?
A high ratio of nutrients to calories.
What is nutrient dense?
An illness received from the food you’ve eaten. Example : food poisoning
What is a food borne illness?
Nutrients the body uses to build and maintain its cells and tissues.
What are proteins?
A unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and the energy it receives from food.
What are calories?
A waxy, fatlike substance.
What is cholesterol?
A set of recommendations about smart eating and physical activity for all Americans.
What are the Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
Treating a substance with heat to kill or slow the growth of pathogens.
What is pasteurization?
Unsaturated, saturated and trans fats.
What are the types of fats found in food?
Substances in food that your body needs to grow, repair itself, and supply you with energy.
What are nutrients?
Compounds found in food that help regulate many body processes.
What are vitamins?
An interactive guide to healthful eating and active living.
What is MyPlate?
Substances added to a food to produce a desired effect.
What are food additives?
Starches and sugars found in foods which provide your body’s main source of energy.
What are carbohydrates?
The natural physical drive to eat prompted by the body’s need for food.
What is hunger?
Elements found in food that are used by the body.
What are minerals?
Fruits, vegetables, grain, dairy, and meat
What are the 5 basic food groups?
The spreading of pathogens from one food to another.
Whoa is cross-contamination?
A tough complex carbohydrate, that the body cannot digest.
What is fiber
The physiological desire for food.
What is appetite?
A condition in which the bones become fragile and break easily?
What is osteoporosis?
Balancing calories, increasing your intake of the 5 main food groups, reducing processed foods, participating in physical activity.
What are some tips to staying healthy?
A condition in which the body’s immune system reacts to substances in some foods.
What are food allergies?
A negative reaction to food that does not involve the immune system.
What are food intolerances?