Across
- 3. The natural physical drive to eat.
- 5. An indigestible complex carb found in the tough stringy parts of vegetables, fruits and whole grains
- 9. A waxy lipid like substance in the blood. Needed for cell membranes, nerve tissue, vitamin D and hormone production.
- 12. The process by which your body takes in and uses food.
- 15. The psychological desire for food.
- 16. Compounds that help regulate many vital body processes,including digestion, absorption and metabolism.
Down
- 1. A unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and receives from food.
- 2. Substance in food that your body needs to grow, repair itself and supply you with energy
- 4. The starches and sugars present in foods that are the bodies preferred source of energy.
- 6. a special course of food to which one restricts oneself, either to lose weight or for medical reasons.
- 7. Good cholesterol
- 8. Type of Lipid that provide 9 calories of energy per gram.
- 10. Bad cholesterol
- 11. Substances that the body cannot manufacture but that are needed for forming healthy bones/teeth.
- 13. The way farmers grow and process agricultural products.
- 14. Nutrients the body uses to build and maintain its cells and tissues. Basic building block of cells (muscle, skin, bone, organs)