Factors Influencing Eating Habits
What is hunger
Vitamins and minerals
What are micronutrients?
Foods high in this cause your body to retain water and organs to work harder than they should
What is sodium?
DV stands for this.
What is Daily Value?
The desire to eat based on the pleasure a person gets from it.
What is appetite?
Fats, Proteins & Carbohydrates
What are macronutrients
Fats solid at room temperature
Saturated Fats
A food containing 5% or less of a nutrient is considered this.
What is low?
Access, marketing, food cost, and food availability.
What are physical environment factors?
Major source of energy that the body can use quickly.
Too much of this circulating in your body causes plaque to build up.
What is Cholesterol?
A food containing at least 20% of a nutrient is considered this.
What is high?
Hunger, appetite, mood, income and knowledge factors.
What are individual factors?
Nutrient primarily responsible for growth and repair.
What is protein?
Good cholesterol is called this.
What is HDL?
Foods high in sugar and calories.
What are empty calorie foods?
Factors such as school meal programs, food prices, regulations on food marketing.
What are policy factors?
What is water?
You can lower your cholesterol by eating fewer of this.
What are meat and dairy products?
In order to be advertised as this, it must contain at least 25% less of a given nutrient than the original version
What is reduced?