Food, Nutrition, and You
Nutrients: The Building Blocks of Health
Your Nutrition Toolbox
Weighing your Choices
Miscellaneous
100

What wellness means feeling good about yourself, keeping friendships, and having a positive outlook in both good and bad times. 

Emotional 

100

The fuel that keeps your body running is?

Calories

100

What foods provide a large amount of vitamins and minerals compared to their calories? 

Nutrient-dense 

100

For the best health, teens need to be physically active about how many minutes each day? 

60

100

What is a practice a group of people do often? 

Custom

200

What wellness means knowing what's important to you and find meaning and purpose in your life? 

Philosophical 

200

What are the three types of carbohydrates?

Sugar, Starch, and fiber

200

Many diets in the U.S. are too low in?

Fiber

200

About 45 to 65 percent of the calories you eat should come from what? 

Carbohydrates

200

Actions taken by a company to get you to buy their food is called?

Food marketing

300

All the foods a person eats is ?

Diet

300

What is part of plants that humans cannot digest?

Fiber

300

How much of your grain intake should be from whole-grain sources?

Half

300

What is a benefit of regular physical activity?

Helps manage weight

300

Some foods and healthful oils are rich sources of what?

Omega-3 fats

400

The physical need for food is? 

Hunger

400

What fat tends to be liquid at room temperature? 

Unsaturated 

400

Foods from the vegetable group are rich sources of what? 

Folic acid

400

What do fad diets promote?

Quick weight loss

400

Foods from the dairy group are rich sources of what?

Calcium

500

The desire to eat certain foods and reject others is? 

Appetite 

500

Antioxidants protect cells from damage that can be caused by? 

Oxygen

500

Red and orange vegetables are rich in what vitamin? 

Vitamin A

500

Anyone who often eats fewer calories than he or she burns will become what?

Underweight

500

Older children, teens, and adults need how many cups from the dairy group daily?

Three 

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