Across
- 2. a tough complex carbohydrate that the body cannot digest
- 6. the process by which your body takes in and uses food
- 7. a waxy, fatlike substance in your blood
- 11. treating a substance with heat to kill or slow the growth of pathogens
- 12. substances in food that your body takes in and uses food
Down
- 1. are compounds found in food that helps regulate many body processes
- 3. starches and sugars found in foods, which provide your body's main source of energy
- 4. natural physical drive to eat
- 5. a condition in which the bones become fragile and break easily
- 8. a unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and the energy it receives from food
- 9. nutrients the body uses to build and maintain its cells and tissues
- 10. are elements found in food that are used by the body
