Nutrients
Water, Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins and Carbohydrates make up 5 of the 6 Major Nutrients. What is the missing nutrient called?
What is Fats?
Which complex carbohydrate cannot be digested and helps carry waste out of the body?
What is Fiber?
What is blood?
Look for this to find the ingredients in a product and its nutrition facts.
What is a Nutrition/Food Label?
Poor ways to manage your weight that involve extreme eating behaviors that can lead to serious illness or even death are called...
What are eating disorders?
Which nutrient is used to build and repair cells and tissues?
What is Protein?
These are fats that are usually solid at room temperature. Eating too much of these can increase your risk of health problems.
What are Saturated Fats?
The organ where the majority of digestion takes place
What is the small intestine?
Foods that offer few, if any, nutrients but do supply calories.
What are empty-calorie foods?
Being obese means that a person is more than ___% higher than what is appropriate for their height, age, and body frame.
What is 20%?
This major nutrient is important for producing energy and fighting infections.
What are Vitamins?
These have been chemically altered to be solid at room temperature and very unhealthy.
What are Trans Fats?
How much liquor (concentrated alcohol) can your liver process per hour?
What is 1 ounce?
Unit of heat that measures the energy available in foods
What is a calorie?
The eating disorder in which a person repeatedly eats large amounts of food and then purges.
What is Bulimia? (Bulimia Nervosa)
Nutrient that helps control the amount of fluid in your body.
What is Sodium/Salt?
What is the waxy, fat-like substance used to build cells and make other substances? Can be good and bad.
What is Cholesterol?
The finger-like projections in the small intestines are called...
Foods that are high in amount of nutrients relative to the number of calories
What are Nutrient Dense foods?
Name the method used for assessing your body size by taking your height and weight into account.
What is your Body Mass Index (BMI)?
What is the name of the sugars that occur in foods such as potatoes, seeds, and whole grain cereals? Your body must break these down to digest them.
What are Complex Carbohydrates?
What are the building blocks of proteins called?
What are Amino Acids?
Which pancreatic disease can be linked to genetics and often shows up early in life?
What is Type 1 Diabetes?
Name the 5 components that make up My Plate.
What are Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Proteins, and Dairy?
The balance between the calories you take in from food and the calories your body uses through activity is called the...
What is the energy equation?