Building Blocks
Fiber and sugar are two forms of this macronutrient?
What are carbohydrates?
How many calories need to be burned in order to lose one pound of fat?
3,500
According to a nutrition facts label, how many grams of added sugar are permissible to eat per day as part of a 2,000 calorie diet?
50
This mineral is important for women to replenish, since they lose more of it each month. A women’s multivitamin will usually include it, where a man’s won’t.
Iron
This type of diet requires a strong focus on supplementing protein sources with tofu, beans, and other plant-based sources. Nothing animal-based.
Vegan diet
While a gram of protein or carbohydrate will contain 4 calories, how many calories per gram does fat contain?
9
This type of fat is liquid at room temperature and have a positive impact on heart health, by reducing “bad” cholesterol levels. They are found in avocados, and olive oil.
Monounsaturated fats
This beverage, named after a “creature under the bed” has 46 grams of added sugar, 92% of daily recommended.
Monster Energy Drink
There are several different B vitamins, with different functions. B12, B6, etc. How many different B vitamins are there?
B1, B2, B3, B6, B7, B9, B12, so 7 total
This diet keep the body in a regular “fat-burning” zone through, counterintuitively, higher rates of fat consumption.
Ketogenic
All foods contain this macronutrient in even trace amounts, but the foods best known for having high levels of it, are meat, fish, tofu, and beans.
Protein
This type of monounsaturated fat is often found in fish, and has a greek letter as part of the name.
Omega-3 fatty acids
Sugar-free beverages, while being free of sugar, still often contain artificial sweeteners. One in particular has been linked to numerous negative behavioral and cognitive problems, including migraine, seizures, insomnia, anxiety, and depression.
Aspartame
This vitamin is essential for blood clotting and can be found in leafy green vegetables.
Vitamin K
This diet keeps eating time-restricted to a short window, length of which can be determined from person to person based on goals. The focus is more on when you eat as opposed to what you eat.
Intermittent fasting
A good starting point for caloric intake is to break down your intake between carbs, protein and fat by which percentage amounts?
40% carbs, 30% protein, and 30% fat. Following a 2,000 calorie diet this would be 800 calories of carbs, 600 calories of protein, and 600 calories of fat.
This type of fat is solid at room temperature, and has been linked to numerous negative health effects, and in fact, many countries have limited or banned this type of fat.
Trans fats
Quitting this drug may spike our sugar cravings in the short-term, because this drug gets metabolized as sugar and we are removing a huge sugar source from our daily consumption.
Alcohol
This vitamin is known as the “sunshine vitamin” because it is produced when we spend time in the sun. It is crucial for immune system regulation, and helping with mood disorders such as depression.
Vitamin D
This diet has a focus on foods that might have been eaten 2.5 million years ago. There is a strong focus on unprocessed foods, or any foods that could have been hunted or gathered.
Paleo
This word refers to a unit of energy that is needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water.
Calorie
This process refers to a “fat-burning state”, and there is even a whole diet named after it.
Ketosis
People who are diabetic are unable to produce a specific chemical that helps with regulating blood sugar levels. What is this chemical?
Insulin
High amounts of this mineral can be damaging to your health, but appropriate amounts, (no more than 2,300 mg per day) are essential for fluid balance in the body.
Sodium
Spain’s citizens have a life expectancy of about 85.8 years, compared to the US, where it’s 78.5. This may be due in part to their diet, which is named after the nearby sea and region of countries. One staple of this diet is olive oil, and red meat and dairy are kept to a minimum.
Mediterranean diet