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The desire to eat and can be changed by emotional or environmental situations
What is Appetite?
The source of proper nourishment used for essential growth and healthy maintenance of life
What are Nutrients?
The amount of calories that are taken in throughout the day needs to be balanced out by losing just a many calories
What is Caloric Balance?
An illness caused by eating contaminated foods
What is Food Poisoning?
A simple sugar which is an important energy source in living organisms and is a component of many carbohydrates
What is Glucose?
The amount of energy stored in an item of food or drink
What are Calories?
An eating disorder in which a person has a desire to lose an abnormal amount of body weight
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
An eating disorder that deals with losing weight, but is mainly focused on the performance of their body
What is Anorexia Athletica?
When your stomach is empty and the nerves in the stomach sends signals to your brain that you need food
What is Hunger?
An emotional disorder where a person’s self image is distorted and followed by periods of rapid overeating and self induced vomiting
What is Bulimia?
Something that captures chemical energy from the breakdown of food molecules and uses it to fuel other cellular processes.
The stored form of glucose and is made up of many different connected glucose molecules
What is Glycogen?
The process by which your body cells turn food into energy.
What is Metabolism?
Food that has high nutrients and low calories
Something that is put into food to either improve it or make it last longer
What are Additives?
A substance that has to be in your diet because your body can't make enough of it to function properly
What is an Essential Nutrient?
The rate that your body uses energy while resting
What is Basal Metabolism?
The physical movement or transfer of harmful bacteria from one surface or object to another
What is Cross-Contamination?