MACRONUTRIENTS
These three essential nutrient groups provide the body with its energy.
What are Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Fats?
These are the two main types of micronutrients the body needs to function
What are Vitamins and Minerals?
Which specific hormone is responsible for allowing blood sugar to enter the body’s cells?
What is Insulin?
This type of vegetarian diet avoids all meat, poultry, and seafood, but includes eggs and dairy products.
What is Lacto-ovo Vegetarian?
This eating disorder is characterized by a relentless pursuit of thinness and an intense fear of gaining weight, leading to severe calorie restriction.
This is the primary function of dietary protein in the human body.
What is to build and repair muscle tissues?
If a student is at risk of anemia (a condition causing extreme fatigue), which specific mineral should they ensure they get enough of.
How do Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes fundamentally differ in the body?
What is type 1 is an autoimmune disease where the pancreas stops producing insulin, while type 2 is a metabolic condition where the body becomes resistant to insulin?
This strictest form of vegetarianism avoids all animal products, including meat, dairy, eggs, and often honey.
What is Vegan?
This disorder involves eating unusually large amounts of food in a short time, followed by behaviors like forced vomiting or excessive exercise.
What is Bulimia?
If you consume 10 grams of carbohydrates and 15 grams of protein, how many total calories have you consumed from these macronutrients?
What are 100 calories?
Why are fat-soluble vitamins sometimes harder for a severely low-fat diet to absorb?
What is because they require dietary fat to be absorbed properly in the small intestine?
When the blood sugar drops critically low, a diabetic might experience shaking or confusion–a condition known as:
What is Hypoglycemia?
Because they do not consume meat, vegetarians must pair these two plant-based food groups to form a "complete" protein.
What are Grains and Beans?
This condition, often co-occurring with obesity, involves consuming large amounts of food rapidly without the purging behaviors seen in bulimia.
What is Binge Eating Disorder?
Explain the difference between saturated fat and unsaturated fats at a molecular/room-temperature level.
What is that unsaturated fats have at least one double bond and are liquid at room temperature, while saturated fats have no double bonds and are solid at room temperature?
This term refers to plant compounds that aren’t traditional vitamins or minerals but act as antioxidants to protect human cells from a disease.
What are Phytochemicals/Phytonutrients?
What does the Hemoglobin A1c blood test measure over a 3 month period.
What is average blood sugar levels?
This type of iron is found in plant foods and is harder for the human body to absorb than heme iron found in meat.
What is Non-heme Iron?
Anorexia and bulimia can cause a dangerous drop in this vital mineral, leading to severe heart rhythm problems.
What is Potassium / Electrolytes?
During digestion, complex carbohydrates like starches must be broken down into simple molecules before the body can use it for energy.
What is Glucose?
Because it is required in volumes greater than 100 millimeters per day, calcium is classified as this type of mineral.
What is a Micromineral/Major Mineral?
This rating system measures how quickly a carbohydrate food converts into blood glucose, helping diabetics make more stable food choices.
What is the Glycemic Index?
Plant-based eaters must be particularly mindful of supplementing or fortifying their diets with this specific B-vitamin, which is naturally found almost exclusively in animal products.
What is Vitamin B-12?
Anorexia is notoriously linked to a dangerously low bone density condition caused by hormonal shifts and calcium deficiency.
What is Osteoporosis?