Macronutrients
This macronutrient is the body’s main source of quick energy and is found in foods like bread, rice, and pasta.
What are carbohydrates?
These are the two micronutrients.
What are vitamins and minerals?
This diet excludes all meat and fish but may include dairy and eggs.
What is a vegetarian diet?
This beverage is usually considered the best choice for staying hydrated.
What is water?
This set of guidelines, first introduced in 1992, used a triangular diagram to teach healthy eating habits in the United States.
What is the Food Pyramid?
This macronutrient helps build and repair muscles and tissues.
What is protein?
This vitamin helps with immunity and is a powerful antioxidant.
What is Vitamin C?
This popular low-carb diet emphasizes fats and often puts the body into ketosis.
What is the keto(genic) diet?
This condition occurs when the body loses more fluids than it takes in.
What is dehydration?
In the modern era, what type of food is seen as the villain and is linked to the obesity epidemic.
What is sugar/processed foods?
At 9 calories per gram, this macronutrient provides the most energy per gram.
What is fat?
This vitamin comes from the sun.
What is Vitamin D?
This diet, inspired by eating habits around countries bordering a certain sea, emphasizes olive oil, fish, and vegetables.
What is the Mediterranean diet?
Sodium and potassium are examples of these minerals that help regulate hydration and nerve function.
What are electrolytes?
In the early 1900s, these compounds were first identified as essential nutrients needed in small amounts.
What are vitamins?
This is the primary function of macronutrients.
What is to provide energy?
This is the primary function of micronutrients.
What is to help chemical reactions in the body?
This diet excludes any food that comes from an animal.
What is the vegan diet?
This percent drop in body water can decrease strength, power, and endurance significantly.
What is 2%?
Sailors once carried citrus fruits to prevent this disease caused by Vitamin C deficiency.
What is scurvy?
This process occurs when the body burns fat for fuel because carbohydrate intake is very low.
What is ketosis?
This electrolyte mineral helps regulate fluid balance and muscle contractions and is plenty in bananas.
What is potassium?
This diet philosophy focuses on eating foods available to humans during the caveman era.
What is the Paleo diet?
This condition happens when a person drinks excessive amounts of water, causing sodium levels in the blood to become dangerously low.
What is water intoxication?
In the deficiency era (1900-1950), what two food items paired together were seen as a solution to deficiency diseases like Rickets.
What is cereal and milk?