Wellness
What you can do to positively impact your immediate and global surroundings
What is environemental wellness.
This organization promoted by the Department of Health and Human Services has brought 42 focus area topics to public attention.
What is Healthy People 2020.
Packaged food labels are governed by this government agency.
What is the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
Vitamins and minerals
What are micronutrients.
Term given to a product that is free from synthetic ingredients, like high fructose corn syrup, or preservatives.
What is natural.
Knowledge of your body, its maintenance, and its functions is key to maintaining good cardiovascular health, flexibility, and muscle strength.
What is physical wellness.
The USDA provides this dietary guidelines for Americans tool to choosing food wisely.
What is Choose My Plate?
This is the amount people typically eat.
What is serving size.
Carbohydrates, proteins and fats.
What are macronutrients.
Term used when 95% of a food is free from pesticides, fertilizers, or bioengineering.
What is organic.
Use of educational and human resources to enhance one's life.
What is intellectual wellness.
This program aims to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, and children up to age 5 who are at nutrition risk.
What is WIC (Woman, Infants and Children)
The American Heart Association recommends limiting this type of fat.
Saturated (or trans) fats.
Complex carbohydrates are also known as
What are starches.
The body loses approximately how many quarts of water daily through the skin, lungs, urine, and feces?
What is 2.
Knowledge and acceptance of one’s own feelings and how to best manage them.
What is emotional wellness.
This organization is working to reduce the serious problem of chronic diseases in the United States.
What is the CDC (Center for Disease Control)
They are listed from largest to smallest amounts on the label.
What are ingredients?
This is the number calories per gram of fat.
This type of vitamin is used in the body very quickly. Example: Vitamin C
What is water-soluble.
Celebration of diverse populations and their ideas, holding a positive self image and improving interpersonal skills in a social setting, as well as building healthy relationships.
What is social wellness.
This organization's primary role is to direct international health within the United Nations' system and to lead partners in global health responses.
What is the WHO (World Health Organization)
If you are following a 2,000 calorie diet and the food facts label says “Vitamin A 20%.” This tells you that the item contains 20% of...
What is RDA (recommended daily allowance) or daily value.
How many essential amino acids are needed to create a complete protein?
What is 9.
Calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium.
What are electrolytes.