Body
Relating to or involving the heart and blood vessels.
What is cardio/cardiovascular?
An extreme fear of body fat that causes someone to severely restrict their caloric intake.
What is a Anorexia nervosa?
Exercise that focuses on cardiovascular health.
What is endurance?
Organic substances either made by the body or found in foods. Small amounts are essential for the regulation of metabolism and normal growth and functioning of the body.
What are vitamins?
The overall combination of food and drink a person consumes over time.
What is a diet?
Relating to the area of the body between the chest and the pelvis.
What is abdominal?
Eating large amounts of food until uncomfortable and unwell due to compulsive behaviors and in spite of being full.
What are binge eating disorder?
The ability of joints to move through a full range of motion.
What is flexibility?
A nutrient that’s the body’s second major source of energy and the preferred means of storing energy.
What is fat?
The unit of measurement for nutrients like protein, carbohydrates, and sodium on food labels. (ex: "There are 12 _______ of protein in this Clif Bar).
What are grams?
A condition marked by an unhealthfully high body mass index (BMI).
What is obesity?
Having a distorted or exaggerated view of the appearance of one’s body.
Body Dysmorphia
The capacity to keep up physical activity or effort.
What is stamina?
Formed by adding hydrogen to liquid fat to make it solid at room temperature; developed to make shipping and storage of foods easier.
What are trans fats?
A unit of measurement for the energy in food that the body can metabolize.
What are calories?
The process by which the body uses food to release energy and uses the energy to build and repair body tissues.
What is metabolism?
An exercise disorder in which a person becomes obsessively insecure about muscle mass and perceived strength.
What is bigorexia?
The name for workouts involving weight-lighting, endurance, and bodyweight workouts (eg pushups or sit-ups).
What is strength training?
A nutrient composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen that provides the body’s preferred form of energy.
The amount in a single helping or portion of food or drink.
What is serving size?
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues, and assists in moving carbon dioxide from the tissues to the lungs.
What is hemoglobin?
An unhealthy obsession with eating “pure” food. It's not currently recognised in a clinical setting as a separate eating disorder.
What is the orthorexia?
An essential category of exercise necessary to help a person maintain their mobility and control over their posture.
What is balance?
DAILY DOUBLE
A term used to describe foods in which most of the energy typically comes from processed carbohydrates and fat, and which lacks nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids or dietary fiber.
What are empty calories?
A measure of healthy weight, overweight and obesity based on the number of kilograms per square meter.