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nutrition vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Calories | unit of energy |
| Ingestion | the process of taking in food or drink |
| Egestion | discharge undigested food by pooping or peeing it out |
| Digestion | the process of breaking down your food |
| Diffusion | movement of dissolved materials from a region to higher concentration to lower concentration |
| Enzyme | protein that catalyzes chemical reactions for organisms |
| body mass index | a weight-to-height ratio, calculated by dividing one's weight in kilograms by the square of one's height in meters and used as an indicator of obesity and underweight. |
| Absorption | The process by which one substance, such as a solid or liquid, takes up another substance, |
| Constipation | bowel movements that are infrequent or hard to pass. |
| Bulimia | an obsessive desire to lose weight, in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by depression and self-induced vomiting, purging, or fasting. |
| Villi | mucous membrane of the small intestine, where they serve in absorbing nutrition |
| Anoerxia | An eating disorder causing people to obsess about weight and what they eat. |
| Macromolecules | very large molecule, such as protein, commonly created by the polymerization of smaller subunits. |
| Roughage | dietary fiber |
| Autotroph | self feeding nutrtion |
| Heterotroph | finds food nutriton |
| Chemoautotroph | self feeding nutrtion that uses chemical energy |
| photoautotroph | self feeding nutrition that uses photosynthesis |
| Cellulose | the chief substance composing of cell walls that is a polymeric carbohydrate |
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