Designing a Healthy Diet
DGA, MyPlate & 'Pot Luck'
Organ and Digestive Systems
CHO's
Protein
100

Foods that are high in Calories for a small amount of weight.

What is energy density?

100

Translates the DRI nutrient requirements into food and beverage recommendations.

What are the Dietary Guidelines for Americans?

100

One or more types of tissue combine to form this.

What are organs?

100

Basic unit of all carbohydrates.

What are monosaccharides?

100

The building blocks of protein.

What are amino acids?

200

Determined by the level of a given nutrient per unit energy (Kcals)

What is nutrient density?

200

A healthy eating plan that illustrates the key elements of a healthy diet.

What is MyPlate?

200

Entire collection of chemical processes involved in maintaining life.

What is metabolism?

200

What are the two monosaccharides that make up maltose?

What are glucose and glucose?

200

Valine, leucine, and isoleucine

What are the branch chained amino acids?

300

Low density foods are also called ___

What are empty calories?

300

The process of adding back nutrients that were lost during the milling of grains.

What is enrichment?

300

Conduit/tubes that carries blood and is pumped by the heart.

What is the circulatory system?

300

These 10-1000+ monosaccharides are bonded together, forming complex carbohydrate that are slow to digest.

What are polysaccharides?

300

When the synthesis of essential to nonessential amino acids fails?

What are genetic errors?

400

A state in which nutritional intake of nutrients greatly exceeds the body’s needs.

What is overnutrition?

400

This hormone promotes gluconeogenesis. 

What is glucagon?

400

Its overall function is to breakdown food and absorb it in the body.

What is the digestive system?

400

Stored form of glucose in the muscles and liver.

What is glycogen?

400

Supplies all the EAA’s in the right amounts to support growth and maintenance.

What are complete proteins?

500

It is used for estimating caloric needs and set at the average energy (kilocalorie) needs for a given life stage.

What are the Estimated Energy Requirements (EERs)?

500

Failure to regulate blood glucose that leads to hyperglycemia (high blood glucose).

What is diabetes?

500

A hormone made in the stomach, stimulates release of gastric acid and enzymes.

What is gastrin?

500

Its intake limits the absorption of cholosterol.

What is soluble fiber?

500

“the disease that the 1st child gets when the new child comes”

What is kwashiorkor?