Is it Enough?
This nutrient is a major source of energy; found in fruits, vegetables, grains, and milk products.
What is Carbohydrates?
This is a guide to healthy eating that includes five food groups
What is the MyPlate model?
These are unhealthy weight-loss plans that limit certain important food groups.
What are fad diets?
A person's thoughts and feelings about how he or she looks is called ___________________________.
What is body image?
How many Americans of all ages suffer from an eating disorder?
What is 30 million?
These fats are found primarily in animal-based foods, such as meat and dairy products.
What are saturated fats?
Name two "Key Concepts Promoted by the Dietary Guidelines".
1. Follow a healthy eating pattern throughout your life.
2. Focus on the variety, nutrient density, and the amount of the foods you eat.
3. Limit how much added sugar, saturated fats, and sodium is in your food.
4. Shift to healthier food and beverage choices.
5. Support healthy patterns of eating for others you know.
How does one maintain a healthy calorie balance.
Calories Taken in = Calories Burned
You should not take more food and drink in that your body can burn.
This is a eating disorder characterized by people eating very large amounts of food with no control.
What is binge-eating disorder?
What are the 3 ways to prevent eating disorders?
1. Learn more (about eating disorders).
2. Challenge the Ideal (question false beliefs.)
3. Assess Your Values (value yourself based on your accomplishments, talents, and character.)
This type of fat is found in many processed foods, such as packaged cookies and chips.
What are trans fats?
These are foods that are rich in needed nutrients and have little or no solid fats, added sugars, refined starches, and sodium.
What are nutrient-dense foods?
_________ is having a considerable excess of body weight from fat.
What is obesity?
According to your textbook, what percent of high school seniors have taken steroids?
What is 1.6%
Adolescents need how many dairy servings daily to build and grow strong bones?
What are 3 servings?
Amino acids are the building block of this.
What is protein?
Women who are pregnant should avoid seafood that is high in this element.
What is mercury?
This is the ratio of the various components - fat, bone, and muscle - that make up a person's body.
What is body composition?
Provide two examples of types of media that can portray unrealistic images
1. magazines
2. television
3. movies
4. the internet
What two groups on the MyPlate model represent the largest portions?
What are grains and vegetables?
This mineral help build bone and is found in dairy, eggs, salmon, vegetables, and nuts.
What is calcium?
What are the two forms of poor nutrition called?
1. Over-nutrition
2. Under-nutrition
___________________ is an unhealthy practice where one does not eat any food or drink except water for an extended period of time.
What is fasting?
What are two characteristics of someone suffering from anorexia nervosa?
1. extreme thinness
2. an unending drive to be thin
3. intense fear of gaining weight
4. distorted body image
5. self-esteem that is heavily influenced by perceptions of body weight and shape
6. denial of the seriousness of low body weight
7 lack of menstruation among girls and women
This is a measure used to estimate whether a person is a healthy weight for his or her height.
What is Body Mass Index (B.M.I.)?