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Which nutrient is used to provide other bodily functions besides energy?
Minerals
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What is hunger?
Is the natural physical drive to eat prompted by the body’s need to eat.
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What is the unit of energy that you receive from food?
Calorie
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List three of the best nutritional choices you need to make in your diet
Go lean with protein, vary your veggies, focus on fruit.
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What are dietary guidelines?
A set of recommendations about smart eating and physical activity.
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List three functions of water
Digesting CHO & protein, lubricating the joints, and moving food through the digestive system.
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A decreased amount of calcium in a condition in which the bones become fragile and break easily
Osteoporosis
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What is water?
A nutrient that helps regulate chemical reactions in the body
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Where is wheat, bread, pasta oatmeal, cereal, and tortias from?
Whole grain
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What category are tomatoes, zucchinis, and cucumbers?
vegetable.
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Vitamins do what?
Provide structure and regulate body processes
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Consuming saturated fats can do what?
Can increase the levels of fats and cholestoral.
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Some vitamins which are absorbed and transported throughout the bloodstream are?
Vitamin A and Vitamin K
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What type of fat is hydrogenated?
Trans fat
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Protein is what?
The nutrient that is the basic building material of all your body cells.
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Nutrients that are an example of a fiber
Fruit, vegetables, and nuts.
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Fiber is a?
CHO that cannot be digested.
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Nutrients are used by your body to…
regulate body functions, sustain growth, and as a source of energy.
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Mindless eating is
Continuously eating while absorbed in another activity
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Nutrition is the process by which your body…
Takes in and uses food
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Proteins are made of
22 basic building blocks A.K.A amino acids
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Calories are
The food you consume on a daily basis
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Essential nutrients are NOT
synthesized in the body
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You are most likely to find daily values listed on
The nutrition fact panel of food labels
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List the five food categories on the MyPlate guide
Fruit, vegetables, grain, dairy, and proteins
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The dietary references intakes were designed to
estimate the needs of healthy individuals
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A nutrient is a
Substance in food used by the body in energy
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Which nutrient is needed in larger quantities than the other one?
Water
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Carbs are
An energy yielding nutrient