Chapter 5 Vocabulary

Nutrition

• An unlearned, inborn response, is a natural physical drive that protects you from starvation.

• Are the starches and sugars present in foods.

• The process by which the body takes in and used food.

Calories

• A guide for making healthful daily food choices

• are units of heat that measures the energy used by the body and energy that foods supply on the body.

• An unlearned, inborn response, is a natural physical drive that protects you from starvation.

Nutrients

• Are substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself,and to supply you with energy.

• Are the starches and sugars present in foods.

• Is a set of recommendation for healthful eating and active living.

Hunger

• Eating food contaminated with pathogens.

• is a natural physical drive that protects you from starvation.

• Are nutrients that help build and maintain body cells and tissues.

Appetite

• Is a desire, rather than a need, to eat.

• A fatty substance that does not dissolve in water.

• Are compounds that help regulate many vital body processes,including the digestion, absorption, and metabolism of other nutrients.

Carbohydrates

• substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself,and to supply you with energy.

• nutrients that help build and maintain body cells and tissues.

• Are the starches and sugars present in foods.

Fiber

• Is an indigestible complex carbohydrate that is found in the tough, stringy parts of vegetables, fruits, and whole grains

• nutrients that help build and maintain body cells and tissues

• fatty substance that does not dissolve in water.

Protein

• condition in which the bodys immune system reacts to substances in some foods

• nutrients that help build and maintain body cells and tissues

• substances that the body cannot manufacture but that are needed for forming health bones and teeth and regulating many vital body process

Lipid

• unlearned, inborn response, is a natural physical drive that protects you from starvation.

• A fatty substance that does not dissolve in water.

• process by which the body takes in and used food

Vitamins

• nutrients that help build and maintain body cells and tissues

• Eating food contaminated with pathogens.

• compounds that help regulate many vital body processes,including the digestion, absorption, and metabolism of other nutrients.