Nutrients and Nutrition
Healthy Choices
Components
Fitness
Definitions
100
The substance that fills up about 70% of your body.
What is water?
100
Your feelings and emotions.
What is something that affects your food choices?
100
The ability to move and use joints easily.
What is flexibility?
100
The chemical your brain makes when you exercise for a long period of time.
What are endorphins?
100
A pattern of eating that includes what a person eats, how much, and how often a person eats.
What is a diet?
200
Your body's main source of energy.
What are carbohydrates?
200
Drinking cold water, working out daily, and staying healthy and fit.
What can speed up your metabolism?
200
The ability to use a group of muscles over and over without getting tired easily.
What is muscular endurance?
200
60-85% of your maximum heart rate.
What is your target heart rate zone?
200
The substances in food that your body needs to function properly.
What are Nutrients?
300
They are common energy food units.
What are calories?
300
A set of suggestions that will help you develop healthy eating habits.
What is the Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
300
The fifth component of fitness that compares the weight of fat in your body to the weight of your bones.
What is body composition?
300
A formula that uses height and weight to estimate body composition.
What is the body max index?
300
Is a tool that shows you what kinds of foods to eat and how much of each food you should eat every day.
What is the Food Guide Pyramid?
400
The part of the body where nutrients are absorbed.
What is the small intestine?
400
The label that will tell you the number of calories in a serving.
What is the Nutrition Fact Label?
400
The amount of force muscles apply when they are used.
What is muscular strength?
400
A medical checkup before playing a sport.
What is a sports physical?
400
The ability to do everyday tasks without becoming short of breath, sore, or tired.
What is physical fitness?
500
Family traditions, cost, personal taste buds, and what is available in the area.
What are the influences on what you eat?
500
Proteins, Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Meat, and Diary products.
What are the most important food groups you should eat each day?
500
The ability of your heart and lungs to work efficiently during physical activity.
What is Cardiorespiratory endurance?
500
You will meet people who are good influences on your fitness and health.
What is a benefit of physical exercise?
500
Any activity that maintains or improves your physical fitness.
What is exercise?
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