8.2 Key Term Quiz

Guidelines published by the USDA and HHS that provide recommendations for establishing eating patterns to promote health

• MyPlate

• Dietary Guidelines for Americans

• Global Health

• FDA

food guidance system created by the USDA; reminds people about the proportions of the five different food groups they should eat at a meal

• MyPlate

• Fruits/Vegetables

• Nutrient dense foods

• Calorie intake

Units of energy in food

• added sugars

• dense foods

• empty calories

• calories

foods that provide vitamins, minerals, and other substances that either contribute to adequate nutrition intake or have positive health effects; contain little or no saturated fats, added sugars, and sodium

• food intolerances

• empty calorie

• nutrient-dense foods

• poor nutrition

sugars that do not occur naturally in foods

• added sugars

• calories

• food allergy

• empty calories

units of energy that supply few or no nutrients to the body

• undernutrition

• food allergy

• malnutrition

• empty calories

conditions in which a person's body cannot properly digest particular types of food; can develop gradually as a person eats large quantities of a certain food frequently

• food sensitivities

• food allergy

• food intolerances

• poor nutrition

condition in which body's immune system reacts to a food as if the food is harmful; sudden symptoms can be caused by tiny amounts of the food

• lactase

• allergies

• lactose intolerant

• food allergy

form of poor nutrition in which a person does not get or properly absorb the recommended amounts of essential nutrients

• poor diet

• nutrition

• malnutrition

• undernutrition

form of malnutrition caused by the body not receiving or or absorbing needed nutrients

• undernutrition

• overnutrition

• malnutrition

• nutrition