Designing a Healthy Diet
Foods that are high in Calories for a small amount of weight.
What is energy density?
Translates the DRI nutrient requirements into food and beverage recommendations.
What are the Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
One or more types of tissue combine to form this.
What are organs?
Basic unit of all carbohydrates.
What are monosaccharides?
Potatoes
Determined by the level of a given nutrient per unit energy (Kcals)
What is nutrient density?
A healthy eating plan that illustrates the key elements of a healthy diet.
What is MyPlate?
Entire collection of chemical processes involved in maintaining life.
What is metabolism?
The complex carbohydrate that is found in plants
What is fiber?
The type of fiber that is added to food
What is functional fiber?
Low density foods are also called ___
What are empty calories?
The process of adding back nutrients that were lost during the milling of grains.
What is enrichment?
Conduit/tubes that carries blood and is pumped by the heart.
What is the circulatory system?
These 10-1000+ monosaccharides are bonded together, forming complex carbohydrate that are slow to digest.
What are polysaccharides?
The structures that prevent food from going backwards in the digestive tract
What are sphincter
A state in which nutritional intake of nutrients greatly exceeds the body’s needs.
What is overnutrition?
The longest part of the digestive track
What is the small intestine
Its overall function is to breakdown food and absorb it in the body.
What is the digestive system?
Stored form of glucose in the muscles and liver.
What is glycogen?
Organ needed for insulin production
What is pancreas?
When there is insufficient data to determine the RDA for a nutrient, this is used
Failure to regulate blood glucose that leads to hyperglycemia (high blood glucose).
What is diabetes?
A hormone made in the stomach, stimulates release of gastric acid and enzymes.
What is gastrin?
Its intake limits the absorption of cholosterol.
What is soluble fiber?
The good bacteria in the gut
What are Probiotics?