Nutrition Crossword

5. Important for the purpose of blood clotting and the functioning of your nervous system, the essential ingredient in the formation and maintenance of bones and teeth
6. This fat has few of the benefits of unsaturated fats and many of the negatives of saturated fats
8. The process of maintaining a steady state inside your body
11. "The amount of energy released when nutrients are broken down is measured in units called calories"
12. Nutrients that occur naturally in rocks and soil
13. Helps to protect healthy cells from the damage caused by the normal aging process as well as from certain types of cancer
15. This fat can continue to have hydrogen added to its molecule

1. Works with sodium to maintain water balance in the body
2. An amino acid can your body not manufacture
3. Necessary for healthy red blood cells, carries oxygen from your lungs to all parts of your body
4. This will form on the walls of their blood vessels if a person has too much cholesterol in their diet
7. This acid consists of smaller substances that are bound together chemically in long chains of smaller links
9. "The chemical process by which your body breaks down food to release this energy"
10. This fat already has all of the hydrogen that its molecule can hold
14. Supplies your body with energy, forms your cells, maintains body temperature, and protects your nerves