Vocabulary
Nutrients
Vocabulary
MyPlate
Vocabulary
100

Extreme, unhealthy behavior relating to food, eating, and weight.




What are eating disorders?

100

This nutrient builds bones and teeth, helps the body use energy, helps maintain body's water balance, helps muscles contract and nerves transmit signals to and from the brain.

What are minerals?

100

A set of guidelines about food choices developed by the United States government.




What are Dietary Guidelines for Americans?

100

The following foods belong to which food group in My Plate: Apples, Pineapple, Kiwi, Banana.

What is fruit?

100

A measurement of the amount of energy produced when food is burned by the body.




What is a calorie?

200

The process of acquiring and maintaining physical, mental, emotional, and social health.




What is wellness?

200

This nutrient helps the body store and use energy. Facilitates and regulates body processes. Essential for growth and health.

What are vitamins?

200

Chemical substances in food that help maintain the body




What is a nutrient?

200

According to MyPlate Guidelines, you need to make half of the grains you eat _____.

What are whole grains?

200

A person with this disorder repeatedly binges and then purges, by vomiting or taking laxatives, to prevent weight gain.




What is bulimia?

300

Weight loss plans that are popular for a short time and often are based on misinformation, unusual requirements, and promise immediate weight loss.




What is a fad diet?

300

This nutrient provides the body its main source of energy. Good sources of fiber that are essential for digestion.

What are carbohydrates?

300

Physical or psychological tension and strain.




What is stress?

300

The following foods belong to which food group in My Plate: Carrots, Green Peas, Cabbage, Spinach?

What is vegetable?

300

The study of nutrients and how they are used by the body




What is nutrition? 

400

All the food and drink a person regularly consumes.




What is diet?

400

This nutrient is needed for growth, maintenance, and repair of tissues. Control body processes such as blood circulation, breathing and digestion. Skin, hair, nails, muscles, blood, and all other body tissues contain this nutrient.

What is protein?

400

A disorder where a person eats very little or refuses to eat as they see themselves overweight even when they are dangerously underweight.




What is anorexia nervosa? 

400

The following foods belong to which food group in My Plate: Eggs, Turkey breast, Salmon, Burger, Steak.

What is protein?

400

Misuse of drugs that damages an individual's health and ability to function.

What is substance abuse?

500

Weighing 20% or more above desirable weight for your height.

What is obesity?

500

This nutrient works to keep muscles and skin toned. Aids in weight loss. Transports oxygen and nutrients to cells. Eliminates toxins and waste from the body. Regulates body temperature.

What is water?

500

A food that is rich in the nutrients your body needs to stay healthy.

What is a nutrient-dense food?

500

In regards to My Plate finish this statement: Make half your plate ____________ and ___________.

What is fruits and vegetables?

500

A guide developed by the USDA for healthful eating that divides food into 5 food groups, and indicates a range of the # of servings needed daily from each group.

What is MyPlate?

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