Nutrition vocab

2. the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.
5. (of work or a way of life) characterized by much sitting and little physical exercise.
8. a natural desire to satisfy a bodily need, especially for food.
9. a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat.
10. a substance that provides nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life.

1. Proteins are large, complex molecules that play many critical roles in the body. They do most of the work in cells and are required for the structure, function, and regulation of the body's tissues and organs.
3. (especially of body tissue) used for the storage of fat
4. a unit of energy equivalent to the heat energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C (now often defined as equal to 4.1868 joules).
6. any of a large group of organic compounds that includes sugars, starch, and cellulose, containing hydrogen and oxygen in the same ratio as water (2:1) and used as structural materials and for energy storage within living tissues.
7. a thread or filament from which a vegetable tissue, mineral substance, or textile is formed.