Nutrition vocab
Across
- 2. an energy deficit due to deficiency of all macro nutrients, but primarily protein.
- 5. doesn't have all the nine types of amino acids
- 7. The body's balance between acidity and alkalinity
- 9. involves the breaking of many of the weak linkages, or bonds within a protein
- 10. a severe form of malnutrition — specifically, protein-energy under nutrition.
- 15. molecules used by all living things to make proteins
- 17. nitrogen intake equals nitrogen output
- 18. two incomplete sets of proteins that are consumed at the same time in order to fulfill the amino acid deficiency in the other meal.
- 19. a disease caused by the lack of some essential or important element in the diet
Down
- 1. not synthesized by mammals
- 3. alanine, arginine, asparagine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamic acid, glutamine, glycine, proline, serine, and tyrosine
- 4. the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat.
- 6. a disease marked by severe protein malnutrition and bilateral extremity swelling.
- 8. a plant in the family Fabaceae, or the fruit or seed of such a plant.
- 11. proteins that protect you when an unwanted substance enters your body
- 12. lack of proper nutrition
- 13. has all the 9 types of amino acids you need to get from food
- 14. building blocks for bones, muscles, cartilage, skin, and blood.
- 16. maintaining a constant acidity in the product.