Nutrition Labels
Understanding your body
Understanding food
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100
960 calories
100
One health risk of being underweight
anemia, heart irregularities, broken bones
100
3 factors that influence the foods we eat
personal preferences, culture, time/convenience, friends, media
100
popular diet that may help a person lose or gain weight quickly without regard to nutrition
*Double points if you give a real life example of one*
Fad diet
(atkins diet, tapeworm diet, Mediterranean diet, baby food diet)
100
physical discomfort caused by body's need for nutrients
hunger
200
Carbs
200
diabetes that is a result of poor nutrition habits/lack of activity
Type 2
200
in order for a food to be listed as “fat free” or “sugar free” it must contain less than _________ of fat/sugar
.5g
200
response by your immune system to the proteins of certain foods
food allergy
200
recommendations that specify the amount of certain nutrients that an average person should obtain each day
Daily Values
300
Iron
300
_________ doesn't produce/regulate ______ which causes diabetes
pancreas insulin
300
food listed as "low calorie" must have less than _____calories"
40
300
inability to digest a particular food or food additive
food intolerance
300
desire for food based on emotions and other factors
appetite
400
4
400
Athletes load up on this prior to big game/race/meet
Carbohydrates
400
cause of people becoming more and more overweight
2 answers
Overeating and lack of physical activity
400
company that regulates what manufacturers have to put on food labels
FDA
400
measure of how much body fat you have compared to muscle and bone
body composition
500
5%
500
Difference between vegetarian and vegan diets
Vegan = no animal product
Vegetarian = no meat
500
main ingredient in diet aid pills, supplements or candies
caffeine
500
ratio of weight to height
*double points for abbreviation and what it stands for*
BMI (Body Mass Index)
500
rate at which you use energy while at rest
*Double points for abbreviation and what it stands for*
BMR