The Basics
Nutrients
Diets
Eating Disorders/Steroids
Fed Up and Tid-Bits
100
The chemical process by which your body breaks down food to release energy.
What is your metabolism?
100
Very heavy perspiring or severe diarrhea can result in a serious reduction in the body's water content.
What is dehydration?
100
Someone who chooses not to eat meat.
What is a vegetarian?
100
A warning sign for someone who may have an eating disorder.
Answers vary: What is frequent dieting, tooth decay, brittle hair, etc?
100
You can lose this many cups of water during heavy exercise.
What is 4 cups?
200
The recommended amount of calories for the average person.
What is 2000 calories?
200
Fats that are usually solid at room temperature.
What are saturated fats?
200
A condition in which the blood contains high levels of glucose and requires managing your diet.
What is Type II Diabetes?
200
Someone who doesn't eat enough food to maintain a healthy body weight?
What is anorexia?
200
This can cause type II diabetes, heart attack, stroke, high glucose levels, etc.
What is a high sugar diet?
300
The best way to judge the nutritional value of a food.
What is read the food label?
300
These carbohydrates give you long term energy, as well as fiber.
What are complex carbohydrates?
300
A response by your immune system that sees that specific food harmful and reacts.
What is a food allergy?
300
Yellowing of the eyes or skin, aggression, heart attack, infection, and an increased risk of cancer.
What are side effects of anabolic steroids?
300
People with higher metabolisms need more of these.
What are calories?
400
According the MyPyramid, the smallest portion of your diet should come from this.
What are oils?
400
The main function of this nutrient is for growth and repair of your body's tissue.
What are proteins?
400
Promises fast results and little to no effort.
What is a Fad Diet?
400
Someone who eats an entire pizza in a short amount of time and then forces themselves to purge may have this eating disorder.
What is bulimia?
400
Organs that process sugar.
What are the liver and pancreas?
500
Unit for the amount of energy released when nutrients are broken down.
What is a calorie?
500
There are two types of these, fat and water soluble.
What are vitamins?
500
The inability to digest a particular food or food additive.
What is a food intolerance?
500
Risks of this eating disorder include type II diabetes, heart attack and stroke.
What is binge eating disorder?
500
The equation to calculate body mass.
What is weight in lbs/height in inches (squared) X 703?
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