Food and diet: made by Maya Flashcards
What nutrient is found in pasta and rice?
Carbohydrate
What can happen if you don’t eat enough?
Starvation
What can happen if you eat too much?
Obesity
What are the correct units of energy?
Joules
What is a nutrient?
A nutrient is a substance needed by organisms to stay alive and healthy.
What are the seven different nutrients?
Carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, minerals, vitamins, water and dietary fibres
What’s a carbohydrate for?
Your mum #rekt
Jk its to provide energy sonnnn
What’s the point in protein?
Growth and repair
What’s the point in Lipids?
To provide energy. Also to store energy in the body and insulate it against the cold.
What’s the point in minerals?
Needed in small amounts to maintain health
What’s the point in life?
Idk either
What’s the point in vitamins?
Needed in small amounts to maintain health
What’s the point in dietary fibres?
To provide roughage to help to keep the food moving through the gut
What’s the point in water?
well i mean??? Needed for cells and body fluids.
Are you overweight?
chocolate cakkeee