Carbohydrates
The two kinds of carbohydrates.
What are simple and complex?
The two types of micronutrients
What are vitamins and minerals?
Energy balance resulting in weight gain
What is positive energy balance?
The total number of amino acids.
What is 20?
The three types of macronutrients
What are proteins, carbohydrates, and fats?
What excess glucose is stored as
What is fat?
The kind of micronutrient that is inorganic
What is a mineral?
Energy balance resulting in weight loss
What is negative energy balance?
The number of essential amino acids?
What is 9?
Where most vitamin absorption occurs
What is the small intestine?
The system that measures how quickly certain foods raise blood sugar levels
What is the Glycemic Index?
The three main electrolytes.
What are sodium, chloride, and potassium?
The main factor affecting metabolic rate
What is lean muscle mass?
Where proteins are stored
What is the muscles?
The type of fat linked to heart disease
What is saturated fat?
The kind of fat that comes from animal products
What is saturated fat?
The vitamin that can be synthesized within the body
What is Vitamin D?
The energy one's body expends to digest, absorb, and transport food
What is the thermic effect of food?
The best time to consume proteins.
What is 1 hour after exercise?
The colour in produce that indicates high levels of iron
What is dark green?
The process by which artificial fats are made
What is hydrogenation?
The four types of micronutrients
What are water-soluble vitamins, fat-soluble vitamins, macrominerals, and trace minerals?
The equation used to estimate resting metabolic rate
What is the Harris-Benedict Equation?
Times when protein needs are higher
The type of cholesterol raised by saturated fats
What is LDL?