Making Healthy Food Choices Notes
What is Hunger
List the 3 Macronutrients
How long is the Small Intestine
How long is the Large Intestine
What is 7 meters
What is 1.5 meters
What does BMR stand for?
What is Basal Metabolic Rate
True or False? The more active you are, the less calories you burn.
What is False
A product should not be consumed after this date
What is the Expiration Date
List the 2 Micronutrients
What are Vitamins and Minerals
A flap-like structure at the back of the throat that closes over the trachea preventing food from entering it
What is the Epiglottis
A measure of how much body fat you have compared to muscle and bone
What is Body Composition
Which state is the healthiest in the country?
What is Hawaii
Refers specifically to adults who have a BMI of 30 or higher
The chemical breakdown of food to release energy
J-shaped muscular bag that stores the food you eat and breaks it down into tiny pieces
What is the Stomach
True or False? Macronutrients provide energy
What is True
What organ regulates blood sugar by producing insulin?
A response by your immune system to the proteins in certain foods
What is a Food Allergy
How many Amino Acids does our diet have to supply?
This organ helps produce Bile
What is the Liver
A waxy, fat-like substance found only in animal products
What is Cholesterol
What does BMI stand for?
What is Body Mass Index
A complex carbohydrate from plants that helps your body with digestion
What is Fiber
List the 5 components that make up Choose MyPlate
Organ in the digestive system that absorbs nutrients and releases them into the bloodstream
What is the Small Intestine
What is 20 (your body makes 11, your diet provides the other 9)
Food is moved from the throat to the stomach using a muscle movement called
What is Peristalsis