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Nutrients
Diseases
Food Guidelines
Nutrition Labels
Food Safety
100
Substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy.
What is a nutrient?
100
Having extreme excess body fat
What is obesity?
100
A set of recommendations about smart eating and physical activity for all Americans
What is the Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
100
appear on the label in descending order by weight
What is the ingredient list?
100
Handling food improperly can resort into the consumer getting sick
What is foodborne illness?
200
A unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and the energy it receives from food.
What is a calorie?
200
A health condition that requires careful monitoring of blood sugar levels.
What is Diabetes?
200
A tool that can help you be mindful and choose healthy foods for all your meals to get the proper balance
What is MyPlate?
200
Substances added to a food to produce a desired effect
What is food additives?
200
Clean, separate, cook and chill your food in order to prevent the spreading of pathogens from one food to another
What is cross-contamination?
300
Your body's psychological need
What is appetite?
300
Cycles of overeating and purging, or attempts to rid the body of food
What is the eating disorder Bulimia Nervosa?
300
A high ratio of nutrients to calories
What is nutrient-dense?
300
Free, Low, light, reduced, good source of, and healthy
What are nutritional claims?
300
Treating a substance with heat to kill or slow the growth of pathogens
What is pasteurization?
400
The process by which the body break down substances and gets energy from food.
What is metabolism?
400
Health condition that involves difficulty digesting dairy products
What is Lactose Intolerance?
400
Choose 100% whole-grain cereals, breads, crackers, rice and pasta Check the ingredients list on food packages to find whole-grain foods
What is the Dietary Guideline Recommendation- make at least half your grains whole?
400
produced without certain agricultural chemicals, cannot be genetically modified, cannot have certain types of radiation
What is organic food?
400
A condition in which the body's immune system reacts to substances in some foods
What is a food allergy?
500
A waxy, fatlike substance Can increase the risk of Heart Disease!
What is cholesterol?
500
Health condition that results in difficulty tolerating wheat, rye and barley
What is Celiac Disease?
500
Watch portion sizes, pay attention to how food is prepared, add fresh veggies and fruits, go easy on toppings and don't drink your calories
What is the proper way to eat right when eating out?
500
a guide to the nutrients in one serving of food on the nutrition facts
What is percent daily value?
500
The most dangerous allergic reaction
What is anaphylaxis?