A-B Vocabulary Words
When blood or lymph capillaries pick up the digested nutrients
What is absorption?
Easily digestible foods that do not irritate the digestive tract
Bland Diet
Fibrous form of carbohydrate
Cellulose
Those elements in food required by the body for proper function
Fat-restricted diets: Diets with limited amounts of fats or lipid
Essential Nutrients
Including clear liquids and full liquids nutritionally inadequate and should be used for only short periods of time
Liquid Diets
Psychological disorder in which a person drastically reduces food intake or refuses food intake at all
Anorexia Nervosa
Calculation which measures weight in relation to height and correlates with body fat, is also used to determine if an individual is underweight, overweight, or the ideal weight
Body Mass Index
Fatlike substance synthesized in the liver and found in body cells and animal fats
Cholestrol
Also known as a lipid, a nutrient that provides the most concentrated form of energy; highest-calorie energy nutrient
Fat
Diet that restricted foods high in saturated fats
Low-Cholestrol Diet
Organic molecules that help protect the body from harmful chemicals known as “free radicals”
Antioxidants
Unit of measurement of the fuel value of a food
Calorie
Metabolic disease caused by an insufficient secretion or utilization of insulin and leading to an increased amount of glucose in the blood and urine
Diabetes Mellitus
High fiber diets are used to stimulate activity on the lower digestive tract and low fiber eliminates foods that are high in bulk and fiber and are typically used with patients that have digestive and rectal diseases
Fiber Diets
Poor nutrition, without adequate foods and nutrients
Malnutrition
A condition in which arteries are narrowed by the accumulation of fatty substances
Atherosclerosis
Including both low calorie and high calorie diets, low calorie diets are used for overweight patients, high calorie diets are used for patients who have anorexia
Calorie Controlled Diet
Used for patients with diabetes, when the patients body doesn’t produce enough insulin
Diabetic Diet
High blood pressure
Hypertension
The use of foods nutrients by the body to produce energy
Metabolism
A rate which the body uses energy for simply maintaining its own tissue without doing any work
Basal Metabolic Rate
Group of chemical substances including sugars, cellulose, and starches; nutrients that provide the greatest amount of energy in the average diet
Carbohydrates
Physical and chemical breakdown of food by the body in preparation for absorption
Digestion
Organic compounds which are commonly called fats and oils; providing the most concentrated form of energy for the body
Lipids
Inorganic substances essential to life
Minerals