Nutrients
This nutrient promotes growth and repairs worn out body cells.
What is protein?
This is what carries food from the mouth to the stomach in wavelike movements.
What is the esophagus?
These are daily nutrient levels, based on the RDAs that consumers can use as a quick reference.
What are daily values?
This is the unit used to measure energy.
What are calories?
These are natural chemicals found in plants.
What are phytochemicals?
This nutrient supplies the energy you need for all of your daily activities.
What are carbohydrates and fats?
This is where gastric juices break down food chemically.
What is the stomach?
These nutrients are needed in smaller amounts than other nutrients.
What are vitamins and minerals?
This nutrient provides 9 calories per gram-more than twice as much as other nutrients.
What are fats?
These nutrients should be consumed in the highest percentage.
What are carbohydrates?
This nutrient provides the 'spark' that keeps your body's many systems running smoothly.
What are vitamins or minerals?
Nutrients are taken by the portal vein to this organ where they are processed further.
What is the liver?
Nutrient needs are higher for this age group than any other.
What are teens?
This is the amount of energy used for body functions.
What is the basal metabolic rate (BMR)?
Daily values are based on how many calories per day?
What is a 2,000 calorie diet?
This nutrient aids digestion and helps transport nutrients and waste.
What is water?
The large intestine is also called this.
What is the colon?
This government program gives food assistance and nutritional education to pregnant and nursing women, infants, and preschool children in need.
What is WIC (women, infants, and children program)?
This is the amount of calories an active female teen should consume per day.
What is 2,200?
Bones that break easily may be the later result of not consuming enough of this nutrient?
What is calcium?
This nutrient can be used for energy if the primary energy-providing nutrients are not available.
What are proteins?
Nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream through the lining of this organ.
What is the small intestine?
These are serious health problems caused by a continuing lack of nutrients.
What is malnutrition?
This is the amount of calories that an active teen boy should consume per day.
What is 2,800?
This may result in getting too many vitamins and mineral.
What is poor nutrition?