NUTRITION
Across
- 3. reduces risk of colon cancer, constipation, and may reduce risk of heart disease
- 5. supply energy for your body's nutrients
- 6. vitamins that can be stored in the body to be used later
- 8. supply your body with energy, form your cells, maintain body temperature, and
- 10. process of maintaining a steady state inside your body
- 12. condition in which your red blood cells do not contain enough hemoglobin
- 13. nutrients that occur naturally in rocks and soil
- 15. the 9 amino acids that your body cannot manufacture
Down
- 1. your nerves
- 2. fats that have all the hydrogen the carbon atoms can hold.
- 4. dissolved substances that regulate many processes in your cells
- 7. vitamins that cannot be stored in the body to use later
- 9. when your body uses the nutrients in foods, a series of chemical reactions occurs inside your cells
- 11. vitamins that help protect healthy cells from the damage caused by the normal aging process as well as from certain types of cancer
- 14. measures of unit and amount of energy released when nutrients are broken down