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Health Unit 2
LHS Health Unit 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Appetite | the emotional need for food |
| Basal Metabolic Rate | how fast your body burns calories |
| Fad Diet | a diet that might work, but it is costly and unsafe |
| Fasting | not eating any food |
| Hunger | the physical need for food |
| Obesity | 20% more than what you should weigh by the height-weight chart |
| Additives | anything added to food to improve color, texture, taste or shelf life |
| Emulsfler | keeps fats from separating in food items |
| Enriched | the product had the ingredient, lost it in processing and it is put back in (Bread is with iron) |
| Fortified | the product never had the ingredient but it is added in (Milk is with Vitamin D) |
| Leading Agent | makes baked goods rise (yeast) |
| Preservatives | keeps food from spoiling |
| Product Date | an estimation or how long the food is usable (pack date, sell date, expiration date, use by date) |
| Unit Price | price by ounce or pound |
| Carb Loading | eating lots of carbs before an athletic event and cutting back on exercise |
| Diabetes | when the body does not use or produce insulin correctly and blood sugar is high or low |
| Hypoglycemia | when body produces too much insulin and burns up sugar so blood sugar is low |
| Insulin | hormone created by the pancreas that breaks down sugars in the blood |