nutrition

2. your body's way of telling you it needs nutrients.
5. provide the most calories per gram of all the nutrients.
6. this vitamin helps birth defect.
7. Proteins containing all the essential amino acids; found only in soy and animal foods.
9. stuff in your food that help you grow.
11. compounds that help regulate many vital body processes, including the digestion, absorption.
16. Proteins that are missing one or more of the essential amino acids; found in plant sources such as nuts and legumes.
17. a form of complex carbohydrates from plants that humans cannot digest.
18. nutrient needed to build cells and tissues.
19. should be carefully restricted by people with hypertension.

1. a learned desire for food that is based on emotional and other factors rather than nutritional need.
3. taking food and using it as energy.
4. are sugars and starches in foods.
8. helps make red blood cells and carries oxygen in the blood.
10. are sugars and should be carefully restricted by diabetics due to the spike it can cause in blood sugar.
12. vitamins that are fat soluble.
13. are made when hydrogen is added to vegetable oils.
14. are needed for healthy bones and teeth.
15. take longer for the body to break down, keeping blood sugar levels constant: bread, rice, pasta, beans and other veggies.