The Importance of Nutrition
A unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and the energy it receives from food.
These are carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.
What are macronutrients?
Foods with a high ratio of nutrients to calories.
What is nutrient-dense foods?
Substances added to a food to produce a desired effect.
What are food additives?
What is psychological eating?
Your body uses these for energy, sustaining growth, to heal and repair tissues, to help transport oxygen, and to regulate body functions.
What are nutrients?
A set of recommendation about smart eating and physical activity for all Americans.
What are the Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
This is also called food poisoning.
What is foodbourne illness?
The process by which your body takes in and uses food.
What is nutrition?
Nutrients the body uses to build and maintain its cells and tissues.
What are proteins?
An interactive guide to healthful eating and active living.
What is My Plate?
Treating a substance with heat to kill or slow the growth of pathogens.
What is pasteurization?
The people and things around affecting what you eat.
What are environmental influences?
Starches and sugars found in foods which provide your body's main source of energy.
What are carbohydrates?
Teens are recommended to do this for about 60 minutes every day.
What is exercise?
The spreading of pathogens from one food to another.
What is cross-contamination?
The psychological desire for food.
What is appetite?
Your body are not able to produce this type of nutrient.
What are minerals?
Watching portion sizes, paying attention to food preparation, adding fresh fruit and vegetables, going easy on toppings, and avoiding drinks with high calories will help with this.
What is healthy eating?
A condition in which the body's immune system reacts to substances in some foods.
What is a food allergy?