Nutrition and Wellness

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  1. 4. the colorless fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk, in which corpuscles or fat globules are suspended.
  2. 6. deficient in weight, especially by a specified amount.
  3. 7. a substance that provides nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life.
  4. 9. the energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water through 1 °C (now usually defined as 4.1868 joules).
  5. 11. any of a large group of organic compounds occurring in foods and living tissues and including sugars, starch, and cellulose.
  6. 13. a red protein responsible for transporting oxygen in the blood of vertebrates. Its molecule comprises four subunits, each containing an iron atom bound to a heme group.
  7. 15. is a mineral found in foods. It is also an electrolyte, which conducts electrical impulses throughout the body.
  8. 16. an odorless tasteless white substance occurring widely in plant tissue and obtained chiefly from cereals and potatoes.
  9. 18. each of a pair of organs in the abdominal cavity of mammals, birds, and reptiles, excreting urine.
  10. 20. a sweet crystalline substance obtained from various plants, especially sugar cane and sugar beet, consisting essentially of sucrose, and used as a sweetener in food and drink.
Down
  1. 1. of, relating to, or derived from living matter.
  2. 2. in good health.
  3. 3. a natural oily or greasy substance occurring in animal bodies, especially when deposited as a layer under the skin or around certain organs.
  4. 5. light from the sun.
  5. 8. a chemical element or substance required in trace amounts for the normal growth and development of living organisms.
  6. 10. newly; recently.
  7. 12. are an essential part of all living organisms, especially as structural components of body tissues such as muscle, hair, collagen, etc., and as enzymes and antibodies.
  8. 14. any of a group of organic compounds that are essential for normal growth and nutrition and are required in small quantities in the diet because they cannot be synthesized by the body.
  9. 17. is the most plentiful mineral found in the human body.
  10. 19. a colorless, transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms.