Nutrition Vocab

1. Amino Acids: Organic molecules that build proteins

2. Anemia: A condition where the body lacks enough healthy

red blood cells, resulting in insufficient oxygen delivery. Symptoms like Fatigue, weakness, 4 shortness of breath

3. Anorexia Nervosa: (anorexia) an eating disorder and serious mental health condition

4. Antioxidants: Compounds that protect cells from damage

Dy neutralizing free radicals

5. Body Composition: The distribution proportion of

different components in the human body, including Fat, muscle, bone, 4 water.

6. Bulimia Nervosa: An Eating disorder where there is recurrent binge eating, followed by forced vomiting

7: Caloric Balance: A State where the number of calories a person consumes equals the number of calories they burn.

8. Carbohydrate: A macronutrient that includes sugars, Starches, and dietary fiber.

9. Cholesterol: A waxy, Fat-like substance that the body needs to build cells, make vitamins, and 4 hormones

10. Creatine: A naturally occurring substance in the body that supplies energy to cells, particularly muscles

11. Dietary Supplement: A product taken by mouth that contains a "dietary ingredient" intended to supplement the diet

12. Electrolytes: Minerals that have a natural positive or negative electrical charge when dissolved in water

13. Essential Nutrients: Substances the body cannot make on its own and must be obtained through diet.

14. Fat-Soluble Vitamins: A group of vitamins that dissolve in Fat and are absorbed along wi dietary fats

115. Fat substitutes: Food ingredients that are used to replace or mimic the function of fat, to reduce a food's caloric content

16. Fiber: A Type of carbohydrate found in plant-based foods that aids digestion.

17. Lactase Deficiency: A condition where the body does not produce enough of the enzyme lactase

18. Lactovegetarian: A person who eats a plant-based diet that includes dairy products but not meat, poultry

19. Macronutrients: Nutrients that the body needs in large amounts

20. Metabolism: a set of chemical processes. that occur in a living organism to convert food into energy.

21. Micronutrient: Vitamins 4 minerals that are essential for human health but are only needed in very small amounts

22. Mineral: An inorganic element the body needs in small amounts for vital Functions, such as building bones, making hormones

23. Nutrients: A substance required by the body for basic functions like growth, energy, and repair, which must be obtained through diet.

24. Ovolacto vegetarians: A person who follows a diet that excludes all meat, Fish, and poultry, but includes eggs(ovo) " dairy products

25. Percent body fat: the percentage of your body's total weight that is composed of fat versus other tissues like bone, muscle, › water

26. Proteins: A molecule made of amino acids essential for life. serving as the building blocks for body structures like skin and hair, 4 performing critical functions such as acting as enzymes to speed up chemical reactions or as hormones.

27. semivegetarian: Primarily plant-based but includes occasional consumption of meat, poultry, fish, dairy, and eggs, wired meat typically excluded

28. Starches A complex carbohydrates and the primary energy-storage molecules in plants, which are broken down into glucose in the body to fuel essential functions.

29. veganse A strict diet that requires careful nutritional planning to ensure adequate intake of critical nutrients like vitamin B12, iron, Calcium, 4 Zinc.

30. Vegetarianism: A plant-based eating pattern that excludes all meat, poultry, and fish

31. vitamins: An organic compound essential for normal metabolism that the body needs in small amounts but cannot synthesize sufficiently on its own

32. Water - Soluble vitamins: A group of nutrients that dissolve in water, are not stored in large amounts by the body, and are excreted in urine, requiring consistent daily intake

33. Ergogenic Aid: Any item designed to increase work or improve performance above that of a regular training diet

35. Anabolic Steroids: Synthetic variations of the male sex hormone testosterone in some tissues

36. SERMS: A class of drugs that act like estrogen in some cases while blocking its effects in others

37. Androstenedione: Is a steroid hormone and a Key intermediate in the body's production of androgens - estrogens

38. DHEA: A hormone produced by the adrenal glands that acts as a precursor to other hormones (testosterone & estrogen)

39. Ephedrine: A medication used primarily to treat hypotension (low blood pressure) that occurs during surgery

40. Bioelectrical impedance: a medical method used to estimate body composition, such as body fat, muscle mass, and water content, by measuring the resistance to a low-level electrical current sent through the body

41. Hydrostatic weighing: A medical technique for measuring body composition by determining a person’s body density.

Using the principle of buoyancy in a water tank

42. Basal Metabolic Rate: the minimum number of calories the body needs to perform basic, life-sustaining functions like breathing, circulation, " cell production while at complete rest