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The process of choosing and consuming foods and beverages to fuel your body
Nutrition
Necessary for most body functions. For example, it maintains body temperature. Not consuming enough can result in dehydration.
Water
Has all 9 essentials and found in animal-based foods.
Complete Proteins
Created by the USDA to help individuals put the Dietary Guidelines for Americans to practice. it outlines the amounts each person consumes.
MyPlate
Illness caused by eating contaminated food
Foodborne illness
Nutrients that provide calories or energy and are required in large amounts to maintain body function and carry out the activities of daily life.
Macronutrients
Chemical substances that give your body what it needs to grow and function.
Nutrients
Lacks one of the 9 essentials and is found in plant-based foods.
Incomplete proteins
Fruits, grains, vegetables, dairy, protein, and oils are all the __________.
MyPlate food groups
__________ is caused by you eating bacteria or other toxins in food.
Food poisoning
Are solid at room temperature
Saturated Fats
Nutrients that provide a valuable source of energy for muscles and help in the absorption and transportation of vitamins and nutrients.
Fats
Organic substance necessary for normal growth and development.
Vitamins
When a persons body cannot properly digest a particular type of food.
Food intolerances
Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water are the six general types of __________.
Nutrients
Are liquid at room temperature
Unsaturated Fats
The body’s major source of energy
Carbohydrates
In organic elements absorbed by plants from soil and water. Needed by the body to grow and develop normally.
Minerals
When the bodies immune system reacts to a food as if the food is harmful.
Food allergies
Foods that do not contain any pesticides, fertilizers, solvents or additives.
Organic foods
What are the 3 macronutrients?
Carbohydrates: Come from plants
Proteins: Come from animals
Fats: Come from either plants or animales
Broken down during digestion into glucose
Complex carbohydrates
Nutrient used to build and maintain the body’s cells and tissues including muscles, bones, skin, hair, fingernails, and other organs. It also provides energy or acts as hormones/enzymes.
Proteins
Form of poor nutrition in which a person does not get or properly absorb the recommended amount of essential nutrients.
Malnutrition
Organism who’s genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques
GMO (Genetically modified organis)