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