Digestion And Nutrition Flashcards
What does DV stand for
Daily value
How many calories are …
Low?
Moderate?
High?
40
100
400
What does RDA stand for?
Recommended Dietary Allowance
Low sodium is…
140 milligrams or less
Ingredients on the label are listed in order of …
Weight
How can you tell if an ingredient is a type of sugar?
It will end in -ose or it will be syrup, molasses, fruit juices, honey
For an item to be considered reduced fat, what percentage of fat has to be reduced?
25%
The body’s physical response to the need for food
Hunger
The desire, rather than the need, to eat certain foods
Appetite
Basal metabolic rate (BMR)
The minimum amount of energy required to keep the body alive when in a rested and fasting state
Being heavy for one’s height
Overweight
Having access body far for one’s weight; The state of weighing more than 20% above your recommended body weight
Obesity
What are some factors that affect the amount and type of food you eat?
Mood, traditions, social occasions, health concerns, cost and availability
Carbohydrates and fat and proteins are nutrients that give energy. How is this energy measured?
Calories
Why is eating breakfast in the morning so important?
Because it gives you a source of energy for your body and glucose for your brain
What are a few examples of basic functions that need food energy?
Breathing, circulating blood, growing
What are some functions that need some body fat?
Energy storage, insulation, protect internal organs
Where are the two main reasons why increasing numbers of Americans are overweight?
Our lack of physical activity and our changing diet
The proportion of body weight that is made up of fat tissue compared to lean tissue
Body composition
An index of weight in relation to height that is used to assess healthy body weight
Body mass index
A diet that requires a major change in eating habits and promises quick weight loss
Fad diet
What are three examples of dangerous weight-loss practices
Fad diets, diet pills, surgery
How you see and feel about your appearance and how comfortable you are with your body
Body image
An eating disorder that involves self starvation, distorted body image and low bodyweight
Anorexia nervosa
An eating disorder in which the individual repeatedly eats large amounts of food and then uses behaviors such as vomiting or using laxatives to rid the body of the food
Bulimia nervosa
Eating a large amount food in one sitting; usually accompanied by a feeling of being out of control
Binge eating
Engaging in behaviors such as vomiting or misusing laxatives to rid the body of food
Purging
Abnormal response to the food that is triggered by the immune system
Food allergy
Lactose intolerance
The inability to completely digest the milk sugar lactose
An illness caused by eating or drinking a food that contains a toxin or disease causing microorganism
Foodborne illness
The transfer of contaminants from one food to another
Cross-contamination
What is the process that moves food through the digestive tract
Peristalsis
What is a mixture of partly digested food and stomach enzymes
Chyme
What are villi
Millions of tiny fingerlike projections that line the small intestine, they take in nutrients
