Understanding Nutrients
All the foods you regularly eat and drink.
Diet
Your skin, hair, nails, muscles, blood, and all other body tissues contain this. It is also needed for growth maintenance, and repair of tissues.
Protein
A disease that limits or prevents the body's ability to properly use energy from food. Some people may require insulin to control it.
Diabetes
Includes the location and climate of the land.
Geography
A recipe calls for 2 1/4 cups of flour. Double the recipe.
4 1/2 cups flour
The study of how the body processes and uses foods you eat and drink.
Nutrition
The body's main sources of energy.
Carbohydrates
When a person's diet lacks needed nutrition over a period of time.
Malnutrition
Includes the way people live, how they act (their customs), and what they believe.
Culture
Divides food into five main food groups - fruits, grains, vegetables, protein, and dairy.
MyPlate
The energy used to support the basic functions that keep a person alive.
Basal metabolism
Concentrated sources of energy found in both animal and plant foods. It is also in butter, oil, and margarine.
Fats
Unsafe diet plans that promise quick weight loss in a short period of time.
Fad diets
Passed from one generation to the other.
Traditions
An eating disorder that causes people to starve themselves.
Anorexia nervosa
A publication by the United States Department of Agriculture that serves as a basis for many nutrition programs and sources of information in the United States.
Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Substances needed by the body for growth and maintenance.
Vitamins
A form of dieting that requires going without food for a certain amount of time.
Fasting
Based on the food customs of African Americans.
Soul Food
Eating disorder when individuals suffer uncontrollable urges to eat large amounts of food followed by behavior to avoid weight gain, such as vomiting.
Bulimia Nervosa
A food guidance system created by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
MyPlate
These provide no energy and the body requires them in small amounts. They are not damaged by heat or light,
Minerals
An illness that results in abnormal eating patterns which can be life threatening.
Eating disorder
Cooking style found mostly in New Orleans. It has roots in French, Spanish, African, and Native Americans in the South.
Creole foods
Four factors affecting your decisions about the foods you eat.
Family, friends, cultural heritage, and advertising.