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The Importance of Nutrition
Nutrients
Healthy Food Guidelines
Nutrition Labels and Food Safety
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A unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and the energy it receives from food.
What is a calorie?
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Nutrients the body uses to build and maintain its cells and tissues.
What are proteins?
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An interactive guide to healthful eating and active living?
What is MyPlate?
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Symptoms of this include a fever higher than 101.5 F, prolonged vomiting and diarrhea, and signs of dehydration
What are foodborne illnesses?
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The capital of Vermont
What is Montpelier?
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The process by which your body takes in and uses food.
What is nutrition?
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A tough, complex, carbohydrate that the body cannot digest.
What is fiber?
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The five basic food groups
What are fruits, grains, vegetables, protein, and dairy?
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Substances added to a food to produce a desired effect
What are food additives?
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Substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy.
What are nutrients?
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The six types of nutrients.
What are carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water?
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Foods with high ratios of nutrients to calories.
What are nutrient-dense foods?
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Negative reactions to food that does not involve the immune system
What are food intolerances?
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The age of the oldest known woman to ever live
What is 122 years old?
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Snacking while absorbed in another activity.
What is mindless eating?
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Moving food through the digestive system and storing and releasing heat.
What are ways water is essential for body functions?
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A set of recommendation about smart eating and physical activity for all Americans.
What is the Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
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Skin irritations, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea.
What are symptoms of food allergies?
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The capital of Belgium
What is Brussels?
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Things around you that affect what you choose to eat, such as family and culture, friends, time and money, and advertising.
What are environmental influences?
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As an energy source, to sustain growth, to heal, and build and repair tissue, to help transport oxygen to cells, and to regulate body functions.
What are ways the body uses nutrients?
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Get better grades, less distracted in school, less likely to become overweight.
What are the benefits to eating breakfast?
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The first Chinese dynasty
What is the Xia Dynasty?