Healthy Behaviors - Essential Nutrition

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Across
  1. 3. Metabolic disease caused by an insufficient secretion or use of insulin leading to an increased level of glucose (sugar) in the blood
  2. 5. Inorganic elements found in all body tissues
  3. 8. A state of good health with optimal body function
  4. 9. Major source of readily usable human energy
  5. 10. Condition in which bones become porous (full of tiny openings) and break easily
  6. 13. Highest-calorie energy nutrients
  7. 14. Rhythmic, wavelike motion of muscles
  8. 15. Process by which blood or lymph capillaries pick up digested nutrients
Down
  1. 1. Organic compounds essential to life
  2. 2. High blood pressure
  3. 4. Arteries are narrowed by the accumulation of fatty substances on their inner surfaces
  4. 5. State of poor nutrition
  5. 6. Provide the most concentrated form of energy for the body
  6. 7. Indigestible form of plant carbohydrate
  7. 11. Organic molecules that help protect the body from harmful chemicals called free radicals
  8. 12. Process by which the body breaks down food into smaller parts
  9. 16. Basic components of all body cells