Fats
The amount of daily fat as a percent of your total diet recommended by the food guide.
What is 20-35%?
The amount of daily protein, as a percent of your total diet recommended by the food guide.
What is 10 - 35%?
The amount of daily carbohydrates, as a percent of your total diet recommended by the food guide.
What is 45 - 65%?
The type of Diabetes that cannot be controlled by diet and exercise.
What is type 1 Diabetes?
What are fruits and vegetables?
The reason it is easy to take in many calories of fat.
What is 9 Cal/g for fat compared to 4 each for protein and carbs?
Soy/kidney/pinto/black beans, chickpeas, lentils, green and black-eyed peas.
What are legume sources of protein?
What are macronutrients?
The role insulin plays when blood sugar levels are high.
What is trigger the liver to store glycogen?
These are not good sources of nutrients, like ketchup.
What are condiments?
What are coconut or palm tree oil?
The meaning of "carbohydrates spare protein".
The main function of carbohydrates.
What is to provide the body with energy/fuel/glucose?
The type of cholesterol we need, which can be found in salmon and tree nuts.
What is LDL?
A type of food that has a lot of nutrients without too many calories.
What is calorie/nutrient dense food?
The three types of fat, in descending order of nutritional value.
What are unsaturated, saturated and trabs fats?
Three of the reasons our body needs protein.
What are cell growth and repair, production of enzymes and hormones, fluid and electrolyte balance, blood acidity balance, energy, transport of nutrients, and production of antibodies?
The reason high performance athletes consume a lot of carbs before their activity.
What is the need for a sustained source of glucose that will be available over an extended period of time?
The leading cause of blocked arteries.
Sufficient amounts of this can prevent colon cancer, lead to weight loss, and prevent diverticulosis.
Margarine, solid at room temperature, has been processed in this manner.
What is hydrogenation (or the addition of hydrogen to an unsaturated fat)?
Three functions protein cannot fulfill during ketosis.
What are the inability to: make/repair cells; support immune systems; and control blood acidity?
Reasons we need good cholesterol. (state 1 of 5)
What are maintenance and the production of bile, hormones, Vitamin D and cell membranes?
Things to consider when deciding how many calories a person should consume in a day. (2)
What are age and level of physical activity?