Across
- 2. helps make red blood cells, carries oxygen to blood
- 4. substances your body uses to grow
- 8. fat soluble vitamins
- 9. help regulate many vital body processes
- 14. takes the body longer to break down
- 15. from plants, people can't digest it
- 16. needed for healthy bones/teeth
- 17. sugars and starches in foods
- 18. should be restricted by people with hypertension
Down
- 1. missing essential amino acids
- 3. needed to build cells and tissues
- 5. your body's way of telling you it needs nutrients
- 6. desire for food based on other factors than nutritional need
- 7. provides the most calories per gram
- 10. made when hydrogen is added to vegetable oils
- 11. sugars that need carefully restricted by diabetics
- 12. contains all essential amino acids
- 13. prevents birth defects