HEALTH CHP 5 LSN 2

What are the 6 nutrients found in food that are essential to your overall health and wellness?

The startches and sugars present in foods.

Carbohydrates are classified as either ________ or _________.

Potatoes, pasta, and bread are rich in what nutrient?

Which nutrient is the bodies preferred source of energy?

What are sugars (fructose from fruit) (lactose found in milk)?

simple or complex carbohydrates

What are starches (found in whole grains, seeds, nuts, legumes {dried peas and beans} and tubers {root vegetables such as potatoes})?

simple or complex carbohydrates

Where does excess carbohydrates end up in your body?

Your body converts all carbohydrates to ________ (a simple sugar that is the body's main source of energy)

An indigestible complex carbohydrate (found in the tough stringy parts of vegetables, fruits, and whole grains).

Fruits and vegetables with edible skins and whole-grain products such as bran cereal, oatmeal, and brown rice are excellent sources of what?

What nutrient helps with intestinal problems such as constipation?

Nutrients that help build and maintain body cells and tissues.

Your body can make 11 of the 20 amino acids that make up proteins, where do you get the remaining 9 amino acids and what are they called?

Proteins are classified into what two groups?

Animal products (fish, meat, poultry, eggs, milk, cheese, yogurt, and soybean) are a good source of which protein?

complete or incomplete

Beans, peas, nuts, and whole grains are example of which protein?

complete or incomplete

Which nutrient helps your body build new cells and tissues and replace damaged or worn-out cells?

This nutrient is the second way your body is supplied energy?

A fatty substance that does not dissolve in water.

What are fatty acids that the body needs, but cannot produce called?

Fatty acids are classified as either ________ or _________?

Fats high in saturated fatty acids are usually _______ at room temperature.

Fats in beef, pork, egg yolks, and dairy foods are high in _______ fatty acids.

saturated or unsatruated

Most vegetable fats (olive, canola, soybean, corn, and cottonseed oils) are high in ________ fatty acids.

saturated or unsaturated

Unsaturated fats are usually ________ at room temperature.

Which fatty acid increases the risk for heart disease?

Which fatty acid reduces risk of heart disease.

What is a health function of fats?

What is a waxy lipidlike substance that circulates in blood?

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

Vitamins are classified as either __________ or __________.

Which vitamins dissolve in water and pass easily into the blood druing digestion.

Which vitamins do you need to replenish every day because your body doesn't store them.

Which vitamins are absorbed, stored, and transported in fat.

Excess buildup of fat-soluble vitamins can be what?

Substances that the body cannot manufacture but that are needed for forming healthy bones and teeth and for regulating many vital body processes.

What nutrient is vital to every body function? It carries wastes from your cells. It lubricates your joints and mucous membranes.

How much water should you drink each day?

What are the water-soluble vitamins?
(7 of them)

What are the Fat-soluble vitamins? (4 of them)

What are some important minerals? (4 of them)