Carbohydrates
Fats
Proteins
Vitamins/Minerals/Water
Miscellaneous
100
4 calories.
How many calories are in one gram of carbohydrates?
100
9 calories.
How many calories are in one gram of fat?
100
Helps the muscle, skin, nails, and hair; builds and repairs.
What is a protein?
100
60%
How much of your body is made of water?
100
Carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water.
What are the six classes of nutrients?
200
Whole-grains are high in _____.
What are starches?
200
The building blocks of fats.
What are lipids?
200
Hormones, enzymes, antibodies, and other important molecules.
What are proteins needed for?
200
Carbon and are needed in small amounts.
What are in vitamins and it's purpose?
200
Will meet the needs of all healthy people.
What are RDAs?
300
Storage, unused, turned into fat.
What is glycogen?
300
Filters nutrients and brings bad cholesterol.
What is HDL and LDL?
300
20 different types.
How many different types of amino acids do proteins have?
300
Helps maintain body temperature, releases waste, helps increase chemical reactions.
What are the three purposes of water?
300
2,500 calories.
How many calories should the average adolescent male consume a day?
400
Does or does not dissolve in water.
What are soluble and insoluble fibers?
400
Processed, bad, vegetables turned into margarine.
What is trans fat?
400
9.
How many essential amino acids are in NOT made in the body?
400
Fat soluble and water soluble, water soluble.
What are the two types of vitamins and which one stays in the body longer?
400
The science or study of food and the ways in which the body uses food.
What is nutrition?
500
Not digested, but improves digestive health.
What is fiber?
500
Needed to make vitamin D, cell membranes, certain hormones, and bile.
What is cholesterol?
500
One provides essential animo acids from animal sources, the other from plant bases.
What is a complete protein and an incomplete protein?
500
A mineral found in seafood and oranges, needed for healing for production of enzymes in the digestive system.
What is zinc?
500
The food guidance system that helps you choose amounts and types of food.
What is MyPyramid?
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