Nutrition
Across
- 4. What is the last macronutrient (carb, fat, protein) to be digested, absorbed, and utilized?
- 5. Major source of readily available energy
- 9. Process where blood or lymph capillaries pick up digested nutrients
- 13. Chemical elements that are found in food and divided up into six groups
- 15. Regulates body function
- 16. What is Hypertension?
- 18. What plays the largest overall role in our health?
Down
- 1. Each individual’s caloric requirement is the number of calories needed by the body during
- 2. A diabetic diet limits the intake of what?
- 3. porous, weak bones; long term deficiency of what vitamins and minerals
- 6. A low cholesterol diet limits the intake of what?
- 7. What is the first macronutrient (carb, fat, protein) to be digested, absorbed, and utilized?
- 8. Carries nutrients and wastes to and from body cells
- 10. most concentrated source of energy
- 11. Constriction of arteries due to plaque and fatty build up
- 12. state of poor nutrition caused by poor diet or illness
- 14. The process in which nutrients are used by cells for building tissue, providing energy, and regulating various body functions
- 17. A sodium restricted diet limits the intake of what?