Nutrition
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| Nutrition | the process by which your body takes in and uses food
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| Nutrients | substances in food that your body needs to grow to repair itself and supply you with energy
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| calorie | a unit of heat to measure the energy your body uses and the energy it receives from food
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| Hunger | the natural physical drive to eat prompted by the body's desire for food
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| Appetite | the physiological desire for food
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| What are types of environments that effect your eating habits? | o Family and culture
o Friends
o Time and money
o Advertising
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| What is emotional eating? | ○ The need to eat when you feel stressed, frustrated, lonely, sad, or bored
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| Carbohydrates | starches and sugars found in foods which provide your body's main source of energy
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| Simple Carbohydrates | sugars such as needed fructose found in fruits and lactose found in milk
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| Complex Carbohydrates | or starches are long chain of sugars linked together-grains, bread, pasta, beans, and root vegetables
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| Fiber | a tough complex carbohydrates that the body cannot digest, moves waste through the digestive system
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| Protein | nutrients the body uses to build and maintain its cells and tissue
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| Fats | your body needs a certain amount of this to function properly
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| Cholesteral | a waxy fatlike substance in your blood
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| Vitamins | compounds in food that help regulate many blood processes
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| Minerals | elements found in food that are used in the body
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| Osteoporosis | a condition in which the bones become fragile and break easily
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| Water | essential for most body functions
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| What are ways your body use nutrients? | o As an energy source
o To build and repair tissue
o To sustain growth
o To regulate body functions
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| What are 5 types of nutrients? | o Carbohydrates
o Proteins
o Fats
o Minerals
o Water
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| What are types of carbohydrates? | ○ Simple Carbohydrates
○ Complex Carbohydrates
○ Fibers
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| What is the role of carbohydrates? | ○ The main source of fuel for the body's tissue aka energy
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| How many amino acids does your body use and what are those amino acids called? | Your body uses 20 amino acids found in food called nonessentials amino acids
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| How many amino acids are not produced in your body? What are they called? How do you get them? | o All but 9 are produced by your body and are called essential amino acids because the body must get food from them
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| What type of foods contain the nine amino acids? | â Complete proteins from meat, eggs and diary
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| What is the role of proteins? | the basic building material of all your body's cell- muscles, bones, skin and internal organs
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| What are the types of fats? | ○ Unsaturated Fats
○ Saturated Fats
○ Trans fats
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| Ex. of unsaturated fats | vegetable oils, nuts and seeds
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| Ex. of saturated fats | found mostly in animal based products such as meat and many diary products
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| Trans fats | fats formed by a process called hydrogenation which causes vegetable oil to harden
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| Ex. of trans fats | found in a stick of margarine & many snacks and package baked goods
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| What are the role of fats? | ○ concentrated form of energy
○ maintain healthy skin and hair
○ absorb and transport fat-soluble vitamins (A,D,E, AND K)
o increase the levels of cholesterol
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| Can your body produce minerals? If not where do you get them from? | No, get this from food
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| What are the functions of water? | ○ Move food through the digestive system
○ Help digest carbs and proteins
○ Transport nutrients
○ Stores and releases heat
○ Cools the body
○ Cushions the eyes , brain and spinal cord
○ Lubricates joints
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| How many cups of water are you suppose to drink water? | 9-13 cups of water per day
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| How many of the body cells contain water? | ALL OF THEM!!!!!!
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