Nutrition Vocabulary words

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Across
  1. 3. compounds that help regulate body processes
  2. 5. nutrients that help build and maintain body cells and tissues
  3. 6. a natural physical drive that protects you from starvation
  4. 7. The substance in food that your body needs to grow, repair itself and supply you with energy
  5. 9. a fatty substance that does not dissolve in water.
  6. 10. Allergy, a condition which the body's immune system reacts to substance in some food
  7. 11. the process by which the body takes in and uses food
Down
  1. 1. The units of heat that measure the energy used by the body and energy that food supply to the body.
  2. 2. the process of treating food with heat to destroy or slow the growth of pathogens
  3. 4. A desire rather than a need to eat
  4. 8. an indigestible complex carbohydrate
  5. 10. intolerance, a negative reaction to a food or part of food that is caused by a metabolic problem.