Health Chapter 6 Flashcards
What is the source of most of your body’s energy?
Carbohydrates.
What nutrient should be included in half the food you eat?
Carbohydrates.
What nutrient consists of amino acids as its basic building blocks?
Protein.
How much of your food intake should consist of fatty foods?
Under 1/4.
What essential fatty acid cannot be produced by your body?
Linoleic acid.
Which type of fat, animal or vegetable, contains the most cholesterol?
Animal.
A pigment that your body uses to manufacture Vitamin A.
Carotene.
Another name for Vitamin B.
Thiamin.
A disease that results from a severe deficiency of Vitamin B.
Beriberi.
A vitamin that prevents scurvy and increases resistance to infection.
Vitamin C.
The sunshine vitamin.
Vitamin D.
A vitamin that aids in blood clotting.
Vitamin K.
A vitamin that protects other vitamins from being destroyed by oxygen.
Vitamin E.
A deficiency of this mineral can result in osteoporosis.
Calcium.
A deficiency of this mineral can result in anemia.
Iron.
A deficiency of this mineral can result in a goiter.
Iodine.
The mineral that enables your blood to carry oxygen.
Potassium.
A mineral commonly found in commercially canned foods, pickled foods, processed meats, and table salt.
Sodium.
How many times do you need protein foods in a day?
You need a small serving at two or three meals a day.
How many times a day do you need dairy products?
You need at least one serving at every meal.
How many times a day do you need fats and oils?
You need only a small amount daily.
How many times a day do you need dark green and deep yellow fruits and vegetables?
You need at least one serving at two different meals daily.
How many times a day do you need breads and cereals?
You need about four servings daily; the more active you are, the more you need.
How many times a day do you need foods rich with Vitamin C.
You need at least one serving daily.
How many times a day do you need other fruits and vegetables, (like bananas, pears, apples, watermelon, potatoes, corn, and peas).
You need two or more servings daily.
What does the suffix -sclero- mean?
“hard”
What does the suffix -osis- mean?
“disease”
What does the suffix -osteo- refer to?
The bones.
What does the prefix -hema- or -hemo- mean?
“blood?
