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What Comes from nutrients from the food you eat?

Energy

What contains all the nutrients necessary to keep you healthy?

A balanced diet.

What supplies your body with most of its energy?

Carbohydrates

What should be a very small part of the food you eat?

Fats and oil.

What makes up much of your body?

Protein

A water-soluable that you need daily.

Vitaman C

Eight different vitamins that work together.

B Vitamins

A fat soluable vitaman that helps your blood to clot.

Vitamin K

The sunshine vitamin

Vitamin D

A vitamin that your body can manufacture from carotene

Vitamin A

The most common mineral found in your body

calcium

A mineral that works with calcium to make your bones and teeth strong.

Phosphorus

A mineral you need more of when involved in strenuous activities

Magnesium

A lack of this mineral can cause a goiter

Iodine

A mineral that helps keep your blood healthy

Iron

A mineral found in table salt

Sodium

The measurement of the amount of energy in food

Calorie

Foods that produce much energy

High calorie foods

The process by which your body produces and uses energy for food

metabolism

foods that produce little energy

Low calorie foods

Everyone needs the same nutrients (T/F)

True

Everyone needs the same amount of nutrients (T/F)

False

Exercise reduces your rate of metabolism (T/F)

False.

Fat that forms from overeating raises the blood cholesterol. (T/F)

True

Obesity harms the heart (T/F)

True

Provides your body with material for growth and repair

Protein

Foods containing sugar and starch

carbohydrates

A water soluable vitamin that you need daily

Vitamin C

A vitamin your body can manufacture from protein; helps your eyesight.

Vitamin A

a fat soluable vitamin that helps your blood clot

Vitamin K

The most common mineral found in your body

Calcium

a mineral that keeps your blood healthy

Iron

Define energy

The ability to do work

Define nutrients

a substance found in food that helps you grow and develop.

What is a balanced diet

a variety of foods containing all the nutrients necessary for good health.

Define calorie

The measurement of the amount of energy found in food.

What is metabolism?

The process in which your body produces and uses energy from food

Define minerals

nutrients from the soil that are found in many foods.

What is the best source of calcium?

milk

What is another name for poor nutrition?

malnutrition

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.

Why is it important to eat a variety of foods?

because one food does not contain all the nutrients your body needs.

Describe this disease and what health deficiency it causes-Osteoporosis

makes adults' bones fragile and weak due to lack of calcium in the bones.

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.

Describe this disease and what health deficiency it causes-Rickets

Lack of vitamin D makes bones weak and causes deformities.

Describe this disease and what health deficiency it causes-Anemia

Lack of iron causes insufficient red blood cells to be produced in the body.

CHAPTER 3 DIGESTIVE SYSTEM




What is the 30 foot long coiled tube of muscles?



alimentary canal

What is the breaking down of food called?

Digestion

What is the greenish colored digestive juice produced by your liver?

bile

What is located between your stomach and small intestine?

pancreas

What is the disease caused when the body produces too little insulin?

diabetes

What is the digestive juice in your mouth called?

Saliva

What are teeth having two cusps called

Bicuspid

Where is most of the food you eat digested?

small intestines

What is the digestive juice that the pancreas produces called?

pancreas juice

Define throat.

Pharynx

Covers your trachea when you swallow

Epiglotis

Name term for wind pipe

trachea

What's the tube connecting your mouth and stomach?

esophogus

The major purpose of the stomach is to store food (T/F)

True


Saliva is a digestive juice in the stomach (T/F)

False

Fats are changed to oils in the stomach (T/F)

True

Carbohydrates remain in the stomach longer than protein foods, fats, and oils (T/F)

False

Alcoholic drinks harm the stomach (T/F)

True

What is a 20 foot long coiled tube of muscles called?

Small Intestines

What is the largest organ inside your body?

Liver

What organ stores the digestive juices the liver produces?

gall bladder

What is located between your stomach and small intestines?

pancreas

Digested food must enter here before it can nourish the body?

bloodstream

What are tiny finger like projections in the small intestines that absorbs food?

Villi

What's the wide tube of muscles connected to your small intestines?

colon

What helps to clean your intestinal walls?

fiber

Only 1/3 of your body is made of water (T/F)

False

You need liquids only at meal time (T/F)

False

Persons with fever, vomiting or diarrhea need more liquids than usual (T/F)

True

Dysentery is an infection of the colon (True/False )

True

Alcohol affects a person's brain (True/False)

True

Chapter check up




Where is bile stored?

gall bladder

Where is food stored before it is digested?

stomach

Where is most food is digested?

small intestines

where is insulin and pancreatic juice produced?

pancreas

another name for the throat

pharnyx

name for windpipe

trachea

carries the waste parts of food away from the body

colon

a digestive juice in the mouth

saliva

a tiny flap of cartilage that covers the trachea during swallowing

epiglotis

What's the job of incisor teeth?

cut food

What's the job of cuspid teeth?

tearing food

What's the job of bicuspid teeth?

crushing food

What's the job of molar teeth?

grinding food

Define absorption

the process that makes food available to your body.

What is the rough parts of some fruits, grains and vegetables that can't be digested?

fiber

A bean shaped organ that reabsorbs water and other useful materials

kidney

What digestive juice works in the mouth?

saliva

what digestive juice works in the stomach?

gastric juice

What digestive juice works in the small intestines?

pancreatic juice

What are the important functions of the liver?

To remove waste, store sugar, vitamins, minerals. It recycles iron and produces bile.

When are two times you should drink additional liquids?

When you are sick and during hot weather

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,