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What Comes from nutrients from the food you eat? |
Energy |
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What contains all the nutrients necessary to keep you healthy? |
A balanced diet. |
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What supplies your body with most of its energy? |
Carbohydrates |
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What should be a very small part of the food you eat? |
Fats and oil. |
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What makes up much of your body? |
Protein |
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A water-soluable that you need daily. |
Vitaman C |
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Eight different vitamins that work together. |
B Vitamins |
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A fat soluable vitaman that helps your blood to clot. |
Vitamin K |
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The sunshine vitamin |
Vitamin D |
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A vitamin that your body can manufacture from carotene |
Vitamin A |
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The most common mineral found in your body |
calcium |
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A mineral that works with calcium to make your bones and teeth strong. |
Phosphorus |
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A mineral you need more of when involved in strenuous activities |
Magnesium |
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A lack of this mineral can cause a goiter |
Iodine |
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A mineral that helps keep your blood healthy |
Iron |
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A mineral found in table salt |
Sodium |
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The measurement of the amount of energy in food |
Calorie |
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Foods that produce much energy |
High calorie foods |
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The process by which your body produces and uses energy for food |
metabolism |
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foods that produce little energy |
Low calorie foods |
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Everyone needs the same nutrients (T/F) |
True |
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Everyone needs the same amount of nutrients (T/F) |
False |
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Exercise reduces your rate of metabolism (T/F) |
False. |
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Fat that forms from overeating raises the blood cholesterol. (T/F) |
True |
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Obesity harms the heart (T/F) |
True |
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Provides your body with material for growth and repair |
Protein |
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Foods containing sugar and starch |
carbohydrates |
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A water soluable vitamin that you need daily |
Vitamin C |
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A vitamin your body can manufacture from protein; helps your eyesight. |
Vitamin A |
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a fat soluable vitamin that helps your blood clot |
Vitamin K |
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The most common mineral found in your body |
Calcium |
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a mineral that keeps your blood healthy |
Iron |
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Define energy |
The ability to do work |
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Define nutrients |
a substance found in food that helps you grow and develop. |
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What is a balanced diet |
a variety of foods containing all the nutrients necessary for good health. |
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Define calorie |
The measurement of the amount of energy found in food. |
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What is metabolism? |
The process in which your body produces and uses energy from food |
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Define minerals |
nutrients from the soil that are found in many foods. |
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What is the best source of calcium? |
milk |
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What is another name for poor nutrition? |
malnutrition |
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Which would produce the greater number of calories-a pound of lean meat or a pound of butter? Why? |
a pound of butter; it has more fat. |
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Why is it important to eat a variety of foods? |
because one food does not contain all the nutrients your body needs. |
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Describe this disease and what health deficiency it causes-Osteoporosis |
makes adults' bones fragile and weak due to lack of calcium in the bones. |
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Describe this disease and what health deficiency it causes-Gotier |
affects the thyroid gland; causes it to swell in the neck due to lack of iodine. |
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Describe this disease and what health deficiency it causes-Rickets |
Lack of vitamin D makes bones weak and causes deformities. |
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Describe this disease and what health deficiency it causes-Anemia |
Lack of iron causes insufficient red blood cells to be produced in the body. |
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CHAPTER 3 DIGESTIVE SYSTEM What is the 30 foot long coiled tube of muscles? |
alimentary canal |
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What is the breaking down of food called? |
Digestion |
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What is the greenish colored digestive juice produced by your liver? |
bile |
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What is located between your stomach and small intestine? |
pancreas |
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What is the disease caused when the body produces too little insulin? |
diabetes |
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What is the digestive juice in your mouth called? |
Saliva |
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What are teeth having two cusps called |
Bicuspid |
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Where is most of the food you eat digested? |
small intestines |
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What is the digestive juice that the pancreas produces called? |
pancreas juice |
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Define throat. |
Pharynx |
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Covers your trachea when you swallow |
Epiglotis |
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Name term for wind pipe |
trachea |
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What's the tube connecting your mouth and stomach? |
esophogus |
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The major purpose of the stomach is to store food (T/F) |
True
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Saliva is a digestive juice in the stomach (T/F) |
False |
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Fats are changed to oils in the stomach (T/F) |
True |
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Carbohydrates remain in the stomach longer than protein foods, fats, and oils (T/F) |
False |
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Alcoholic drinks harm the stomach (T/F) |
True |
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What is a 20 foot long coiled tube of muscles called? |
Small Intestines |
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What is the largest organ inside your body? |
Liver |
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What organ stores the digestive juices the liver produces? |
gall bladder |
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What is located between your stomach and small intestines? |
pancreas |
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Digested food must enter here before it can nourish the body? |
bloodstream |
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What are tiny finger like projections in the small intestines that absorbs food? |
Villi |
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What's the wide tube of muscles connected to your small intestines? |
colon |
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What helps to clean your intestinal walls? |
fiber |
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Only 1/3 of your body is made of water (T/F) |
False |
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You need liquids only at meal time (T/F) |
False |
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Persons with fever, vomiting or diarrhea need more liquids than usual (T/F) |
True |
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Dysentery is an infection of the colon (True/False ) |
True |
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Alcohol affects a person's brain (True/False) |
True |
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Chapter check up Where is bile stored? |
gall bladder |
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Where is food stored before it is digested? |
stomach |
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Where is most food is digested?
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small intestines |
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where is insulin and pancreatic juice produced? |
pancreas |
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another name for the throat |
pharnyx |
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name for windpipe |
trachea |
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carries the waste parts of food away from the body |
colon |
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a digestive juice in the mouth |
saliva |
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a tiny flap of cartilage that covers the trachea during swallowing |
epiglotis |
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What's the job of incisor teeth? |
cut food |
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What's the job of cuspid teeth? |
tearing food |
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What's the job of bicuspid teeth? |
crushing food |
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What's the job of molar teeth? |
grinding food |
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Define absorption |
the process that makes food available to your body. |
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What is the rough parts of some fruits, grains and vegetables that can't be digested? |
fiber |
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A bean shaped organ that reabsorbs water and other useful materials |
kidney |
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What digestive juice works in the mouth? |
saliva |
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what digestive juice works in the stomach? |
gastric juice |
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What digestive juice works in the small intestines? |
pancreatic juice |
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What are the important functions of the liver? |
To remove waste, store sugar, vitamins, minerals. It recycles iron and produces bile. |
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When are two times you should drink additional liquids? |
When you are sick and during hot weather |
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What are four good health habits you practice that aid good digestion? |
don't overeat, chew your food thoroughly,Exercise regularly, relax before and after mealtimes, |