Health Vocab
Across
- 4. a set of recommended smart eating and physical activities for all Americans
- 5. the psychological desire for food
- 11. food poisoning
- 13. nutrients the body uses to build and maintain its cells an tissues
- 14. a waxy, fatlike substance in your blood
- 18. when the bones grow weak and the strength of the bone changes
- 20. these foods have a high ratio of nutrients and calories
Down
- 1. substances in food that your body needs to grow, repair itself, and to supply you with energy
- 2. the spreading of pathogens from one food to another
- 3. to kill or slow the growth of pathogens
- 6. the natural physical drive to eat, prompted by the body's need for food.
- 7. starches and sugars found in foods which provide your body's main source of energy
- 8. an interactive guide to healthful eating and active living
- 9. a unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and the energy it receives from food
- 10. a condition in which the body's immune system reacts to some foods
- 11. a tough complex carbohydrates that the body cannot digest
- 12. compounds found in food that help regulate many body processes
- 15. a negative reaction to food that doesn't have involve the immune system
- 16. the process by which food your body takes in and uses food
- 17. substances added to a food to produce a desired effect
- 19. elements found in the food that are