Carbs
The sun's energy converted and stored in plants.
What is starch?
Chemicals in food that are critical to human growth and function.
What are nutrients?
Caused by a lack of vitamin C, the most common symptom is bleeding gums (after which your teeth fall out)
What is scurvy?
An example of a dietary fat.
What is butter/margarine/oils?
The building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
Glucose stored in animals.
What is glycogen?
What are vitamins?
Caused by a deficiency of Vitamin B1, the patient's legs and feet are swollen.
What is Beriberi?
Fats that are solid at room temperature.
What are saturated fats?
What is 20?
The plant's "skeleton" which is not easily digested.
What is dietary fibre?
These are inorganic molecules, like you would find on the periodic table.
What are minerals?
Without enough Vitamin B12, one's skin will become scaly and will experience headaches, memory issues, and diarrhea, symptoms of this disorder.
What is Pellagra?
What are unsaturated fats?
The number of amino acids in a complete protein.
What is 9?
Carbs that can't be broken down in one step, so they provide energy for the body over a longer period of time.
What are complex carbohydrates?
Three major minerals your body requires
What are calcium, phosphorous, sodium, magnesium, sulfur and/or chloride?
The disorder resulting in weak bones, curved outward, caused by a lack of vitamin D while maturing
What are rickets?
These are called polysaturated fats
What are fats with multiple sets of double bonds?
Two illnesses that can result from too much protein.
What are high cholesterol and kidney disease?
When the body converts protein to inefficient energy.
What is Ketosis? (or glyconeogenesis)
What are fat-soluble vitamins? (A, D, E and K)
Goiter is caused by a deficiency of this mineral.
What is iodine?
What are trans fats?
What are essential amino acids?