Concepts of Nutrition
Across
- 2. intakes: How much of certain things a person should be eating during the day.
- 4. Nourishment or energy obtained from food consumed.
- 5. food intakes: What it is a person actually eats during the course of a day.
- 6. nutrient intakes: the amount of a nutrient that is enough to ensure that the needs of nearly all the population are met.
- 8. A persons regularly consumed food and drink.
- 9. Inadequate nutrition resulting from lack of food or failure of the body to absorb nutrients.
- 11. Being grossly overweight
- 13. Being above weight considered normal.
Down
- 1. and energy balance: The amount of calories taken in and how much is burned by the body.
- 3. A lack of proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough of the right things, or being unable to use the food that we do eat.
- 7. reference values: A set of nutrient recommendations.
- 10. A lack or shortage of something.
- 12. mass index: An approximate measure of whether someone is over or underweight, calculated by dividing their weight by their height.
- 14. charts: A chart followed by health care providers that follow growth over time.