The process of converting the energy in food into energy your body can use.
What is metabolism?
100
A pattern of eating that includes what a person eats, how much a person eats, and how often a person eats.
What is a diet?
100
This controls and coordinates the activities of the body systems. Think "Mission Control"!
What is the nervous system?
200
Where nutrients that grow strong bones come from.
What is Milk and Cheese?
200
These help your body use and regulate the energy from other nutrients.
What is vitamins and minerals?
200
These building blocks of your body help to build and repair tissues and cells.
What is protein?
200
These organic compounds control several body functions, but your body only needs a small amount of these each day.
What are Vitamins?
200
Provides a framework for support and protection of the body, but don’t break part of it. It will hurt!
What is the Skeletal System?
300
Food goes through this process in order to be used as energy.
What is digestion?
300
This helps transport nutrients, lubricate your joints, and regulate your body temperature. You can’t survive more than a few days without it.
What is water?
300
Meat, poultry, fish, eggs, milk, and cheese.
What are animal sources of protein?
300
Calcium, phosphorus, iron, sodium, potassium, iodine all play a part in keeping our body healthy.
What is minerals?
300
I like to move it, move it! I like to move it, move it! That’s what these parts of our body like to do.
What is the muscular system?
400
The 6 classes of essential nutrients
What is carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, water.
400
Another term used to describe table sugar, honey, and the sugar found in fresh fruit which are easy for your body to break down.
What is simple carbohydrates?
400
A visual daily double... This food item clucks, flutters, and pecks before it lands on your plate with healthy protein to offer.
What is chicken?
400
Many people think that this nutrient is unhealthy, but a small amount of this is essential for good health. It helps store important important vitamins.
What is fat?
400
MC Hammer might have said this in a song, but he can’t do what this system does. It works on food in order to “break it down” into simpler substances thereby transferring nutrients into the blood and eliminating solid waste.
What is the digestive system?
500
These measure the amount of energy your body gets from food.
What is calories?
500
Starches, which are made up of many sugar molecules, must be broken down into simpler sugar molecules before the body can use them are called?
What are complex carbohydrates?
500
Beans, nuts, and tofu.
What are vegetable sources of protein?
500
The influences on Your Food Choices
What is Taste, Cost, Family Traditions, Local availability, Convenience, What friends eat, Culture, Feelings.
500
This helps the nervous system control and coordinate activities of the body and helps regulate growth.