diet and nutrition crossword
Across
- 2. rating system for carbs measuring how quickly they raise blood sugar
- 3. unit of energy, nutrient value of foods
- 5. organic compounds that serve as building blocks of proteins
- 10. dietary material that comes from plants and helps with digestion
- 11. substance that provides nourishments essential for growth
- 13. harmful type of unsaturated fat
- 15. salt crystal substance essential for human health
- 18. minerals that carry +/- charge when dissolved in water
- 21. course of food one restricts self to in order to lose weight
- 26. good cholesterol that transports excess from tissues to the liver
- 27. bad fats that have no double bonds
- 28. process of providing foods necessary for growth
- 29. product consumed with intent to add nutrients
- 30. waxy fat like substance produced by liver
Down
- 1. concentration of sugar found in blood stream, primary energy for body
- 4. healthy fat having one double bond
- 6. essential macronutrients suger, starch, fiber
- 7. total consumption of fluids and water containing foods
- 8. macromolecules essential for living composed of amino acid chains
- 9. most common type of fat (lipid) formed by 3 fatty acids
- 12. sum of all fat types, measured in grams
- 14. carboxylic acid acting as building block of fats
- 16. bad cholesterol, complex fat that transports it through the body
- 17. sum of all chemical reactions occuring within living cells
- 19. biological catalysts produced by living cells
- 20. when body loses more fluids than it takes in
- 22. healthy dietary fats containing carbon double bonds
- 23. sweet crystal substance exemplified by glucose and sucrose
- 24. process of breaking down food
- 25. group of elastic proteins naturally found in wheat, barley