Nutritional Needs

1. The nutrients with the highest satiety content
5. a condition in which a person does not obtain enough of a specific nutrient (rough skin, rickets, diarrhea, vomiting)
8. Acids small links/substances that make up proteins
9. a serious reduction in the body’s water content (weakness, rapid breathing, weak heartbeat)
11. vegetable oils, nuts, seeds
12. Often we eat more carbs than our body can immediately use, the extra glucose here is converted into a starch called _________________
14. Nutrients that are not manufactured by living things.
15. are nutrients made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen (excellent source of energy).
16. The substances that the body needs to regulate bodily functions, promote growth, repair boy tissues, and obtain energy

2. typically animal fat (beef, pork, chicken, lamb – also dairy products)
3. The process by which the body takes in and uses nutrients
4. Nutrients that are made by living things, are required only in small amounts, and assist many chemical reactions in the body
6. is a type of complex carbohydrate that is found in plants.
7. The amount of energy released when nutrients are burned
10. The chemical processes by which your body breaks down food to release energy.
13. Nutrients that contain nitrogen as well as carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
15. a waxy, fatlike substance found in the cells of all animals