Health ch 10 and 11 vocab
Across
- 2. having an excess of body fat
- 6. compounds found in food that help regulate many body processes
- 9. a measure of body weight relative to height
- 11. What is a unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and you receive it from food?
- 13. heaver than the standard weight range for your height
- 14. the processes by which the body breaks down substances and gets energy from food
- 16. a tough, complex, carbohydrate that the body can not digest
- 17. below the standard weight range for your height
- 18. a condition in which the body's immune system reacts to substances in some foods
- 19. treating a substance with heat to kill or slow the growth of pathogens
Down
- 1. nutrients the body uses to build and maintain its cells and tissues
- 3. the natural physical drive to eat, prompted by the body's need for food
- 4. What is the process by which your body takes in and uses food?
- 5. a person who eats mostly or only plant based foods
- 7. an eating disorder that involves cycles of overeating then purging
- 8. elements found in foods that are used by the body
- 10. very large amount
- 12. a repeated pattern of losing and regaining body weight
- 15. an eating disorder which an irrational fear of weight gain leads people to starve themselves