Key Vocabulary Terms
Balanced Diet
Carbohydrates
Fats
Proteins
100
The science or study of food and the ways in which the body uses food.
What is nutrition?
100
Helps you be healthy and stay healthy.
What is having a healthy diet?
100
Sugars.
What are carbohydrates made out of?
100
Fat.
What is something you need in your diet in order for your body to function properly?
100
Muscles, skin, hair, and nails.
What are some examples of things that are made up of proteins?
200
A substance in food that provides energy or helps form body tissues and that is necessary for life and growth.
What are nutrients?
200
Effects how you look and how you feel.
What is your diet?
200
Simple and complex.
What are the two different types of carbohydrates?
200
The two smaller molecules that fats are made up of.
What are fatty acids and glycerol?
200
Amino acids.
What is the chain of molecules that makes up proteins called?
300
A class of energy-giving nutrients that includes sugars, starches, and fiber.
What are carbohydrates?
300
Heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, cancer.
What are some diseases affected by diet?
300
A type of complex carbohydrate that provides little energy and cannot be digested by humans.
What is fiber?
300
Another type of lipids that is found in all animal and human tissue.
What is cholesterol?
300
Complete and incomplete.
What are the two types of proteins?
400
A class of energy-giving nutrients; also the main form of energy storage in the body.
What are fats?
400
Weight loss, poor growth, and possibly death.
What are the side effects of eating too little?
400
Starch, glycogen, fiber.
What are the complex carbohydrates?
400
Fats that are made up of saturated fatty acids.
What are saturated fats?
400
A protein that does not contain all the essential amino acids.
What is an incomplete protein?
500
A class of nutrients that are made up of amino acids, which are needed to build and repair body structures and to regulate processes in the body.
What are proteins?
500
Increases the risk of devoloping heart disease, high blood pressure, and many other chronic diseases and disorders linked to poor nutrition.
What is excess body fat?
500
Glucose, fructose, lactose, sucrose.
What are simple carbohydrates?
500
Fats that are made up of unsaturated fatty acids.
What are unsaturated fats?
500
A protein that contains all the essential amino acids.
What is a complete protein?
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