Macronutrients
The body's preffered source of fuel.
What are carbohydrates?
The mineral is important for strong bones and teeth.
What is calcium?
The vitamin produced when skin is exposed to sunlight.
What is vitamin D?
A front-of-pack labelling system rating packaged foods from 0.5 to 5 stars based on nutritional value.
What is the Health Star Rating system?
It's among the gnarliest of surfing maneuvers, executed from the very front of a perfectly balanced long board.
What is hang ten?
The macronutrient essential for growth and repair.
What is protein?
The mineral that helps transport oxygen around the body.
What is iron?
What are B1, B2, B3?
Australia’s current national food selection model, created by the Federal Government.
What is the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating?
This term can refer generically to all the navigable waters of the Earth or to a lucky number of specific ones.
What are the Seven Seas?
The macronutrient providing the most energy per gram.
What is fat?
A deficiency in iron may lead to this health condition, characterised by lethargy.
What is anaemia?
The vitamin essential for DNA synthesis.
What is B9 (folate)?
A limitation of the AGTHE?
What is it does not account for composite foods, all cultural diets, individual energy requirements, allergies, or personal preferences?
The number scored in cricket when the umpire waves their arm side-to-side.
What are four runs?
Explain one health consequence of consuming excessive saturated fat over a long period.
What is an increased risk of cardiovascular disease due to plaque build-up in arteries?
A mineral that plays a major role in fluid balance and nerve transmission, and is often consumed in excess in Australia
What is sodium?
A vitamin crucial to ensure you don't get weakened bones or rickets
A strength of the Health Star Rating system.
What is that it allows consumers to quickly compare packaged foods and make healthier choices?
The name colloquially given to British citizens who cheaply immigrated to Australia following WWII.
What are Ten Pound Poms?
Name two ways dietary fibre contributes to health and wellbeing.
What are improving digestive health, reducing constipation, lowering cholesterol, increasing satiety, or helping regulate blood glucose?
The reason adolescent females may require higher iron intake than males of the same age.
What is menstruation?
Referencing vitamins, explain one reason why people who consume very little fruit and vegetables may experience poorer health outcomes.
What is they may lack important vitamins such as Vitamin C and folate, increasing risk of deficiency and disease?
The five food groups in the AGTHE.
What are vegetables and legumes/beans, fruit, grain foods, lean meats and alternatives, and dairy and alternatives?
This idiom from Shakespeare means all at once or with a single, quick effort, like a hawk diving for prey.
What is one fell swoop?