Digestive System
Eating Disorders
Vocabulary
6 Basic Nutrients
Eating Habits
100
Digestions starts in this part of the body.
What is the mouth?
100
An eating disorder that involves binging and purging
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
100
Any and all of the food you eat
What is your diet?
100
The body’s main source of energy
What is carbohydrates?
100
It is recommended that a person your age eats how many calories a day
What is 2,000 - 2,500
200
When you swallow your food goes down this food tube.
What is the esophagus?
200
An eating disorder where a person starves themselves and has a low body weight
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
200
The process of taking in and breaking down food is
What is digestion?
200
Helps the body store vitamins, warmth
What is fat?
300
Wast is stored in this organ.
What is the large intestine?
300
An eating disorder in which a person frequently stuffs themselves with food, but does not purge.
What is Binge Eating Disorder.
300
The study of what people eat and how it affects their health.
What is nutrition?
300
Helps regulate body temperature and more
What is water?
400
Most of your digestion takes place in this organ.
What is the small intestine?
400
An eating disorder is described as
What is emotional problem that leads to harmful changes in eating habits?
400
A unit of food energy available from food for use by the body
What is calorie?
400
Involve many different body processes such as building bones and teeth
What is minerals?
500
Good nutrients is absorbed in to the ____ and is used in all _____.
What is blood stream and cells of the body.
500
An eating disorder is brought on by many this such as:
What is: poor body image, low self esteem, stress, anxiety, what you hear from friends and family, the media, control (any or all are acceptable).
500
Foods that are high in fat or sugar and calories, but low in other nutrients might have a lot of
What is empty calories?
500
Needed for growth and repair of body tissues
What is proteins?
500
If a person cannot use or does not produce enough of the hormone insulin (cannot breakdown or digest sugar) they have a disease called
What is diabetes?