Unit Vocab 1
What is nutrition?
The process of obtaining and eating foods that help with daily life functions.
What is a whole food?
A category of foods that retain as much of their nutritional value as possible (not processed)
When planning a healthy diet, you should try to eat more of this category of foods.
Whole food
Found somewhere on food packaging, this lists the nutrients, ingredients, and other details related to the food.
Nutrition Label
The average adult should acquire 2,000 of these per day to maintain a healthy diet.
Calories
Foods that have been stripped of some portion of their nutritional value and/or combined with chemicals and sugar are called this.
Processed food
What amount of food per meal will help you have energy throughout the course of the day?
Moderate size
The Daily Value % calculates how much of your daily ______ a food contains.
Calories
Carbohydrates, Fats, and Proteins all fall under this category.
Macronutrients
Sugar, Minerals, and Vitamins all fall under this category.
Micronutrients
Two ways to identify whole foods are if they've been farmed straight from the earth, or __________ straight from an animal.
butchered
This is important to have for nutrients to travel in the body and to get rid of waste within the body
Water
To achieve this, you should consume moderate amounts of macronutrients
Portion Control
This hormone is produced by the pancreas to help regulate a person's blood sugar levels.
Insulin
True or False: It is very easy to avoid processed foods.
False; most foods sold in the U.S contain some form of chemicals and /or sugar.
Used to measure how certain carbohydrates affect the body's blood sugar.
Glycemic Index
This measures the effects of different types of carbohydrates on a person's blood sugar level.
Glycemic Index
Carbohydrates can be labelled as either ___-___________ or _____ - ____________.
Low-glycemic and High-glycemic
You use this part of the body to portion control how much of a specific food group you eat.
Hand(s)
True or False: It's better to eat calorie-dense foods with little nutrients versus nutrient-dense foods with less calories.
False; nutrient dense foods with less calories are healthier