True or False????
Complex Carbohydrates are starches.
What is True?
100
True or False????
Food is sometimes used to meet emotional needs
What is True?
For example, people may eat when they feel stressed or bored.
100
Substances that your body cannot manufacture (make) but that are needed for forming healthy bones and teeth and for regulating many vital body processes.
What are Minerals?
Calcium (BG) , Phosphorus (BG), Magnesium (MC), Iron (RBC)
100
The process by which the body takes in and uses food.
Daily Double
What is Nutrition?
100
A desire, rather than a need, to eat.
What is an Appetite?
200
A natural physical drive that protects you from starvation.
When the stomach is empty the walls contract.
This stimulates nerve endings that then send signals to your brain telling it that your body needs food.
What is Hunger?
200
Daily Double
All carbohydrates are converted to simple sugars _____________ that is the body’s main source of energy.
What is Glucose?
200
An indigestible complex carbohydrate that is found in tough, stringy parts of vegetables, fruits, and whole grains.
Helps move waste through the digestive system.
Reduces your risk of heart disease.
What is Fiber?
200
True or False????
Complex Carbohydrates are sugars.
What is False?
Simple Carbohydrates are sugars.
200
Daily Double
Your body can manufacture all BUT _____ of the 20 different amino acids.
What is 9?
Your body gets those 9 Amino Acids from the food that you eat.
300
Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) builds in arteries.
High Density Lipoproteins (HDL) carried back to the ______ , where it can be eliminated.
What is Liver?
300
List the 6 essential Nutrients:
Toughest test questions
Carbohydrates
Proteins
Fats
Vitamins
Minerals
Water
300
The body’s immune system reaction to substances in some foods.
Peanuts, eggs, and wheat.
What are Food Allergies?
300
True or False????
A healthful and unbalanced eating plan helps avoid unhealthful weight gain, obesity, and type 2 diabetes.
What is False?
300
True or False???
Your body uses FATS for growth and to replace damaged or worn out cells.
What is false?
Your body uses Protein for growth and to replace damaged or worn out cells.
400
Recommendations about food choices for all healthy Americans age 2 and over.
Make good food group choices.
Find a balance between diet and exercise.
Get the most nutrition out of your calories.
Aim for a healthy weight.
What are Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
400
True or False???
Water is not vital to every body function.
What is False?
400
_______ are found in citrus fruits, whole-grain cereals, and vegetables.
Water soluble – not stored and must be replenished
Fat soluble – stored but excess levels can be toxic
What are Vitamins?
400
True or False???
You need to drink 8 cups of water daily for good health.
What is True?
400
What are saturated fats at room temperature?
What are unsaturated fats at room temperature?
Saturated = Solid at room temp.
Unsaturated = liquid at room temp.
500
True or False
Allergens, are proteins that the body responds to as if they were good for the body.
What is False?
Allergens, are proteins that the body responds to as if they were pathogens; or foreign invaders.
500
___________________ is made up of the following categories: grains, vegetables, fruits, milk, proteins.
It also states that you should be active for at least 60 minutes a day.
What is My Food Pyramid?
500
A negative reaction to a food or part of food caused by a metabolic problem, such as inability to digest parts of certain foods or food components.
What is Food Intolerance?
500
May be caused by eating contaminated food with pathogens.
Most of the time the contamination can be seen, smelled, or tasted.
What is Food Borne Illness?
500
The spreading of bacteria or other pathogens from one good to another.