Definitions
Substances in food that your body needs.
What are nutrients?
The "Big 3" parts of a food label.
What is Calories, Sugar, Ingredient List? (CSI)
A disorder in which a person repeatedly eats too much food at one time.
What is Binge Eating Disorder?
This is the number of food groups identified by MyPlate.
What is 5?
This nutrient is your bodies main energy source. It consists of sugars and starches.
What are carbohydrates?
These provide energy for your body.
What are carbohydrates, proteins, and fats?
White bread, pasta, and white rice.
What are slow foods?
Therapy/counseling, medication, support groups.
What is treatment options for eating disorders?
Apples, oranges, and bananas.
What are foods in the fruit group?
This is a nutrient your body uses to build, repair, and maintain cells and tissues.
What are proteins?
In addition to hunger and appetite, this also influences your food choices.
What is (answers may vary) location, peers/family, availability, cost, mood, emotion, other?
Tips or clues to help determine if food is a go, slow, or whoa food.
What is how food is prepared and is something added/removed to change nutritional value?
Someone who binges and purges.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
Dairy choices recommended by MyPlate.
What are low-fat or fat-free dairy choices?
These help your body run smoothly (body function).
What are vitamins, minerals, and water?
Substances that help your body fight infections and use other nutrients among other functions.
What are vitamins?
Amount of food recommended.
What is serving size?
Anorexia nervosa.
What is an eating disorder in which a person fears gaining weight & starves himself or herself?
Nuts, seeds, and tofu.
What are proteins? / What are non-meat protein sources?
It helps you digest and absorb food, it regulates body temperature and circulation, and it carries nutrients and oxygen to cells.
What is water?
Eating low nutrient, high-fat foods, along with overeating can lead to this long term health problem.
What is obesity?
Nutrients to limit listed on a nutrition fact labels. (hint: at least 3)
What are fats, sodium, sugar, and cholesterol?
Effects of eating disorders (at least 3).
What is (answers may vary) malnutrition, anxiety, depression, the decay of tooth enamel, irregular heart rhythms/risk of heart failure and heart disease, increased risk of osteoporosis, digestive problems, death?
Half of your grains should be these.
What are whole grains?
It helps you digest and absorb food, it regulates body temperature and circulation, and it carries nutrients and oxygen to cells.
What is fiber?