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Unit 1 Nutrition Flashcards

1
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Substances that your body needs to work and grow well

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Nutrients

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2
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Nutrients needed for building body cells and repairing damaged cells

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Proteins

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3
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Nutrients that provide the body with energy and carry certain vitamins into the blood

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Carbohydrates

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4
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Nutrients that provide the body with energy and carry certain vitamins into the blood

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Fats

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5
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Nutrients from living things that control activities of cells and of the body in general

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Vitamins

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6
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A variety of foods in meals and snacks in amounts that provide the nutrients needed to stay healthy

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Balanced Diet

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7
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A chart showing the number of daily servings from each of the five food groups needed for a balanced diet

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Food Guide Pyramid

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8
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A single portion of food

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Serving

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9
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Suggestions for making healthful food choices that can lower your risk of disease

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Dietary Guidelines

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10
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A soft, waxy substance in all of your body cells

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Cholesterol

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11
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Calories from foods that have a large amount of fats and sugars but few nutrients

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Empty Calories

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12
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A chemical, other than a basic food, that food manufactures add during processing

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Additive

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13
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Add nutrients that were lost during processing of food

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Enrich

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14
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To add new nutrients to a food

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Fortify

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15
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A food additive that keep a food from spoiling quickly

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Preservative

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16
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Something that goes into making a food product

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Ingredient

17
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Changing a food in some way

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Processed

18
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A loss of control over normal eating patterns

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Eating Disorder

19
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An eating disorder in which a person does not eat enough food, resulting in extreme and dangerous loss of weight

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Anorexia Nervosa

20
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An eating disorder in which a person eats large amounts of food and then does not eat food for a timer purges food out of the body

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Bulimia

21
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A popular diet that may not be nutritionally sound

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Fad diet

22
Q

A persons view of their own body

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Body Image

23
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A disease that can be passed to a person from another person

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Communicable Disease

24
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A disease that cannot be spread to a person form another living thing

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Noncommunicable Disease

25
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A type of one-celled organisms

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Bateria

26
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A microscopic particle that can only reproduce inside a living cell

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Virus

27
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A tiny organism only visible with a microscope

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Microbe

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