Health test

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Which nutrient is used to provide other bodily functions besides energy?

Minerals

What is hunger?

Is the natural physical drive to eat prompted by the body’s need to eat.

What is the unit of energy that you receive from food?

Calorie

List three of the best nutritional choices you need to make in your diet

Go lean with protein, vary your veggies, focus on fruit.

What are dietary guidelines?

A set of recommendations about smart eating and physical activity.

List three functions of water

Digesting CHO & protein, lubricating the joints, and moving food through the digestive system.

A decreased amount of calcium in a condition in which the bones become fragile and break easily

Osteoporosis

What is water?

A nutrient that helps regulate chemical reactions in the body

Where is wheat, bread, pasta oatmeal, cereal, and tortias from?

Whole grain

What category are tomatoes, zucchinis, and cucumbers?

vegetable.

Vitamins do what?

Provide structure and regulate body processes

Consuming saturated fats can do what?

Can increase the levels of fats and cholestoral.

Some vitamins which are absorbed and transported throughout the bloodstream are?

Vitamin A and Vitamin K

What type of fat is hydrogenated?

Trans fat

Protein is what?

The nutrient that is the basic building material of all your body cells.

Nutrients that are an example of a fiber

Fruit, vegetables, and nuts.

Fiber is a?

CHO that cannot be digested.

Nutrients are used by your body to…

regulate body functions, sustain growth, and as a source of energy.

Mindless eating is

Continuously eating while absorbed in another activity

Nutrition is the process by which your body…

Takes in and uses food

Proteins are made of

22 basic building blocks A.K.A amino acids

Calories are

The food you consume on a daily basis

Essential nutrients are NOT

synthesized in the body

You are most likely to find daily values listed on

The nutrition fact panel of food labels

List the five food categories on the MyPlate guide

Fruit, vegetables, grain, dairy, and proteins

The dietary references intakes were designed to

estimate the needs of healthy individuals

A nutrient is a

Substance in food used by the body in energy

Which nutrient is needed in larger quantities than the other one?

Water

Carbs are

An energy yielding nutrient