Essential Nutrients
The essential nutrient that helps to regulate body temperature, transport nutrients to their cells and eliminate waste from the body.
Simple and complex! This macro can be found in grains, milk products, fruits, vegetables, etc. and should be the largest percentage of calories from a person's diet.
What are carbohydrates?
The chemical process in which your body breaks down food to release energy.
What is metabolism?
The number of calories per gram when consuming proteins.
What is 4?
The essential nutrient that is necessary for healthy skin, hair and other hormonal actions that is used as stored energy.
Bonus: The percentage of the brain that is made up of fat?
What is fat?
Bonus: 60%
DAILY DOUBLE
Name the substance that we obtain from food that can fight off free radicals in the body.
What is an Antioxidant?
The chemical process by which your body breaks down food to release energy. This is the process the body uses to break down food into nutrients.
What is Metabolism?
The number of calories per gram when consuming fats.
What is 9?
This fruit and bird share the same prefix - which originated in New Zealand.
What is a Kiwi Bird?
Citrus fruits are a great source of which vitamin?
Bonus: If you are anemic, is it better or worse to take this with an iron supplement?
What is vitamin C?
Bonus: Better since it enhances absorption of Iron in the GI tract.
This nutrient is essential to our body. It makes up to 65% of our body, and we can only live for 3 days without it.
What is water?
This mineral is essential in helping to build strong bones and teeth. It is commonly found in dairy products.
Bonus: What other nutrient is this best taken along with it to be most effective?
What is Calcium
Bonus: Vitamin D - it helps facilitate the absorption of calcium, allowing the body to use it more effectively
The amount of ounces in 1 cup of water.
What is 8 oz?
An organic nutrient often found in food we eat that can be in the form of food or a supplement, and made to help the body with many different processes to help function normally.
What is a vitamin?
These are the building blocks for the human body (including muscle and tissue). (Hint: One of the macronutrients)
What are amino acids found in protein?
Vitamin A D E K are example of what type of Vitamin?
Bonus: What do you have to eat in order to absorb and utilize these vitamins in the body?
What fat soluble? They can dissolve only in fat, not water.
Bonus: Fat
This is a form of carbohydrate that is not broken down for energy. It helps with satiety and relieving constipation.
What is fiber?
The essential nutrient that comes from rock or soil. This essential nutrient can be Calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, chloride, magnesium, iron, or zinc.
What is a mineral?
Nutrients that provide the body with short-lived energy and are made up of one or two sugar molecules. This is used for fast acting energy.
What are simple carbohydrates?
True of False: Your body can move your food through the digestive system even while you are standing on your head. It is not connected to gravity because it works with muscles.
Bonus: What is this called?
What is TRUE?
Bonus: peristalsis - the involuntary constriction and relaxation of the muscles of the intestine or another canal, creating wave-like movements that push the contents of the canal forward.
Reporting signs of: Fatigue, confusion, headache, muscle cramps, constipation, UTI, dark colored urine, dry skin and lips - are examples of this condition.
What is dehydration?
Symptoms of tiredness and irritability, lack of concentration, always feeling col, depression, loss of important tissue such as: muscle mass, fat layers for protection of organs, and body tissue, weakened immune system, longer healing time for wounds, stunted growth or development issues, learning difficulties are due to:
What is malnutrition?