NUTRITION

3. reduces risk of colon cancer, constipation, and may reduce risk of heart disease
5. supply energy for your body's nutrients
6. vitamins that can be stored in the body to be used later
8. supply your body with energy, form your cells, maintain body temperature, and
10. process of maintaining a steady state inside your body
12. condition in which your red blood cells do not contain enough hemoglobin
13. nutrients that occur naturally in rocks and soil
15. the 9 amino acids that your body cannot manufacture

1. your nerves
2. fats that have all the hydrogen the carbon atoms can hold.
4. dissolved substances that regulate many processes in your cells
7. vitamins that cannot be stored in the body to use later
9. when your body uses the nutrients in foods, a series of chemical reactions occurs inside your cells
11. vitamins that help protect healthy cells from the damage caused by the normal aging process as well as from certain types of cancer
14. measures of unit and amount of energy released when nutrients are broken down