Macronutrients
What are the three macronutrients?
Carbohydrates, proteins, and fats
This mineral's functions include building/maintaining bones, muscle movement, and allowing nerve cells to carry messages between the brain and the body, to name only a few.
Calcium
True or false: Our bodies are much more judgmental of our food choices than our minds are.
False
Name 3 ways malnutrition can impact your mood/mental health.
1. "hangry" (low blood sugar, increased stress hormones)
2. even in the absence of anxiety and depression, malnutrition can mimic the same symptoms (increase in anxiety and depression)
3. obsessive behaviors
4. isolating
5. difficulty staying focused/concentrating
(more options may be correct as well)
Carbohydrates
This vitamin helps protect cells and keep them healthy, maintains healthy skin, blood vessels, bones, and cartilage. This is also important in wound healing. Citrus fruits are a good source.
Vitamin C
True or false: If you eat late at night, your body will not use this food for energy while you sleep. It will be stored.
Explain your answer
False. This is a myth. You are going to sleep in a 24 hour period, and you are going to eat. Your body uses food for energy regardless of whether dinner is at 5pm or midnight. Your body needs fuel even when you are in a coma.
This is a study that involved 36 men on a very restrictive diet in 1945. They were studied in a laboratory to monitor their physiological reaction to restrictive eating, along with any mental, emotional, or behavioral changes. We learned a lot about nutrition and mental health from this study.
Minnesota Starvation Study
This macronutrient is important in building and repair of tissues, synthesis of hormones, building antibodies, oxygen transport, and synthesizing enzymes.
Protein
This vitamin is also known as the sunshine vitamin, because our body can absorb it from the sun and convert it to it's active form. It helps maintain normal levels of calcium and phosphorus in the blood.
Vitamin D
The end goal of recovery is _________ eating. This involves listening to your body, eating when you are hungry, stopping when you are full, allowing yourself to eat with freedom and flexibility, not restricting yourself from things you enjoy.
Intuitive
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
What is our brain's number one preferred fuel?
Glucose
This is what carbohydrates are broken down to in order to be absorbed and used for energy by our bodies. It is a monosaccharide that makes up table sugar.
Glucose
One of the functions of this mineral is to help fight infections and heal wounds. It is found in some cold lozenges, as there is some evidence that supports it may reduce the duration of the common cold.
Zinc
This brings the eating disorder into the light. It thrives in isolation because it tells you it is your greatest ally, that nobody else will understand or if they do try to help, it will only be making all your worst fears come true. Externalizing the eating disorder helps separate it, helps you receive support, and authentically connect through vulnerability.
Your cognitive function may suffer if you are not getting enough of this food group (one of the three macronutrients)
Carbohydrates
We need this macronutrient to absorb vitamins A, D, E, and K
Fats
This mineral helps form and oxygenate our blood cells and synthesize heme, which forms hemoglobin, a protein found in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to body tissues. Deficiency may cause anemia.
Iron
Explain why someone might feel very full and bloated during the refeeding process, but still need to eat more?
The body is still healing. Often digestion is slowed by up to 50%, energy is being absorbed fast and often people become hypermetabolic and use energy fast. Their body is not used to making digestive enzymes as the GI tract is malnourished or misused, and this is a symptom that will improve over time.
The human brain is made up of nearly 60% ______. (one of the macronutrients)
Fat