Across
- 6. Serve as an energy source but they also play a role in growth and repair of your body's tissues
- 7. vitamins that help protect healthy cells from damage caused by the normal aging process or certain types of cancer
- 9. Smaller links of proteins bound together chemically like a chain
- 11. the chemical reaction in which your body breaks down food to release energy
- 13. Units that are measured by the amount of energy released when nutrients are broken down
- 14. dissolve in water
- 15. vitamins dissolve in fatty materials
Down
- 1. They are made when manufacturers add hydrogen to the fat molecules in vegetable oil
- 2. Supply energy for your body's functions
- 3. lowers blood pressure
- 4. is needed to create healthy red blood cells.
- 5. nutrients that occur naturally in rocks and soil
- 8. A waxy fatlike substance
- 10. contain the 9 essential proteins
- 12. important in blood clotting, nervous system, bones, and teeth