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- 2. Helps keep the water (the amount of fluid inside and outside the body's cells) and electrolyte balance of the body. It is also important in how nerves and muscles work.
- 5. An organic compound essential to living cells.
- 7. In addition to building bones and keeping them healthy, it enables our blood to clot, our muscles to contract, and our heart to beat.
- 9. Describes all the chemical processes that go on continuously inside your body to keep you alive and your organs functioning normally, such as breathing, repairing cells, and digesting food.
- 11. It is important for many processes in the body, including regulating muscle and nerve function, blood sugar levels, and blood pressure, and making protein, bone, and DNA.
- 12. A substance in the blood that can cause heart disease.
- 14. An essential component of living cells and a source of energy.
- 15. Body is normal it is _______.
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- 1. It is a mineral that your body needs to work properly. It is a type of electrolyte. It helps your nerves to function and muscles to contract. It helps your heartbeat stay regular.
- 3. An organic substance essential to normal metabolism.
- 4. Is needed for your body to produce stomach acid, it helps your immune system and metabolism function. It is also important to wound healing and your sense of taste and smell.
- 6. Chemicals that conduct electricity when mixed with water. They regulate nerve and muscle function, hydrate the body, balance blood acidity and pressure, and help rebuild damaged tissue. The muscles and neurons are sometimes referred to as the “electric tissues” of the body.
- 8. Is an essential element for blood production.
- 10. Dietary material containing substances such as cellulose, lignin, and pectin, that are resistant to the action of digestive enzymes.
- 13. Macronutrients provide this.