Nutrition Unit Test

The process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.

• Nutrition

• Nutrients

• Calorie

• ....

Substances found in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply your with energy.

• Nutrients

• Calorie

• Nutrition

• .....

A unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and the energy it receives from food/The unit of energy in food

• Calorie

• Nutrition

• Nutrients

• .....

______________is the natural physical drive to eat, prompted by the body's need for food.

• Hunger

• Calorie

• Appetite

• ....

_____________ is the psychological DESIRE for food (the mind thinks it needs food).

• Appetite

• Hunger

• Calorie

• ....

 ______________ is family, culture, friends, time, money, social media, and advertising that influences food choices.

 

• Environmental

• Physical

• Emotional

• ...

Hunger (your body needs the nutrients and calories to function) and Appetite (a desire for a specific food...not a necessity)   

• Physical

• Environmental

• Emotional

• ...

Sometimes people eat in response to an emotional need (feeling stressed, sad, lonely, etc.)

• Emotional

• Environmental

• Physical

• ....

There are __________ main/essential categories of nutrients.

• 6

• 8

• 10

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