food, nutrition, and wellness

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  1. 3. a mineral your body needs to build and maintain strong bones and to carry out many important functions.
  2. 5. a substance that inhibits oxidation, especially one used to counteract the deterioration of stored food products.
  3. 8. Allowance Average daily level of intake sufficient to meet the nutrient requirements of nearly all (97–98%) healthy indivi
  4. 9. denoting or relating to food or a diet that is low or relatively low in fat, especially saturated fat.
  5. 10. a colorless, transparent, odorless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms.
  6. 11. a substance that provides nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life.
  7. 13. a plant or part of a plant used as food, such as a cabbage, potato, carrot, or bean.
  8. 15. foods made from the milk products of animals, or produced in the mammary glands
  9. 16. any of a class of nitrogenous organic compounds that have large molecules composed of one or more long chains of amino acids and are an essential part of all living organisms, especially as structural components of body tissues such as muscle, hair, etc., and as enzymes and antibodies.
  10. 17. calories derived from food containing no nutrients.
  11. 19. the chemical element of atomic number 11, a soft silver-white reactive metal of the alkali metal group.
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  1. 1. Rate the rate at which the body uses energy while at rest to keep vital functions going, such as breathing and keeping warm.
  2. 2. a substance found in certain plants which is believed to be beneficial to human health and help prevent various diseases.
  3. 4. shows your food group targets – what and how much to eat within your calorie allowance.
  4. 6. activity requiring physical effort, carried out to sustain or improve health and fitness.
  5. 7. wheat or any other cultivated cereal crop used as food.
  6. 8. food Food that is high in nutrients but relatively low in calories.
  7. 9. the sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food.
  8. 12. a unit of energy equivalent to the heat energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C
  9. 14. Whole grains or foods made from them contain all the essential parts and naturally-occurring nutrients of the entire grain seed in their original proportions.
  10. 18. the state or condition of being very fat or overweight