Metabolism
This term describes all the chemical processes your body uses to turn food into energy.
What is Metabolism?
This cooling process causes your body to lose water, especially during exercise or hot weather.
What is Sweating?
This is the most important aspect of nutrition and also along the bottom of the nutrition hierarchy.
What is Adequacy?
Despite being only about 2% of your body weight, this organ uses roughly 20% of your total energy.
What is the Brain?
Found abundantly in dairy products, this mineral is the primary building block of your skeleton, giving bones and teeth their rigidity.
What is Calcium?
This macronutrient helps build and repair tissues and slightly boosts metabolism during digestion.
What is Protein?
Headaches, dark urine, and fatigue are common signs of this condition caused by not drinking enough.
What is Dehydration?
Balance of ___________, plus produce at most meals explains the second step of the nutrition Hierarchy.
What are Macronutrients?
This simple sugar is the brain’s primary fuel source because the brain cannot store energy.
What is Glucose?
Salmon, sardines, and tuna provide this vitamin that boosts calcium absorption.
What is Vitamin D?
These special proteins speed up chemical reactions, including breaking down food.
What are Enzymes?
This feeling or cue is your body’s early warning sign that you need more fluids.
What is Thirst?
It is good advice to 'Eat a ________' in order to get a variety of nutrients every day.
What is Rainbow?
These fats found in fatty fish and walnuts, help build brain healthy cell membranes and support learning and memory.
What are Omega 3 Fatty Acids?
This macronutrient, found in eggs, beans, and poultry, forms the structural framework that minerals attach to in bones.
What is Protein?
This “BMR” is the number of calories your body needs just to keep you alive at rest.
What is Basal Metabolic Rate?
Sodium, potassium, and magnesium are examples of these minerals that help maintain fluid balance.
What are Electrolytes?
This step is at the top of the pyramid and can be helpful if all other steps are in place.
What are Individual Foods?
Abundant in bright colored produce like berries and leafy greens, these compounds help reduce inflammation and protect memory.
What are Antioxidants?
Leafy greens like spinach and kale supply this vitamin that helps bind calcium to the bone matrix.
What is Vitamin K?
Having more of this tissue increases your resting metabolism because it burns more energy than fat.
What is Muscle?
When you’re dehydrated, this thick joint lubricant becomes less effective, increasing friction between bones
What is Synovial Fluid?
The Nutrition Hierarchy of Needs is based on "_________'s Hierarchy of Needs"- which states that people must have their basic needs met- like food and water, before they can focus on higher level needs.
Who is Maslow?
This “sunshine vitamin” supports brain cell repair and neurotransmitter function; deficiencies are linked to cognitive issues.
What is Vitamin D?
When the body lacks key nutrients, bones weaken and become more prone to this long‑term condition.
What is Osteoporosis?