Nutrition

4. The amount of energy released when your body breaks down the food
6. Help protect healthy cells from damage caused by normal aging
8. Supply energy for your body's functions and consist of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms
10. It's in table salt
14. When an organism gets too few or too many nutrients, resulting in health problems
15. You drink a ______ shake after you work out

1. Molecules that combine to form proteins
2. Too little iron in the body causes this
3. Chemical process which breaks down food into energy
5. Your body is made up of 36% of ______
7. Most abundant mineral in the body
9. ________ is a type of electrolyte. It helps your nerves to function and muscles to contract
11. This helps the proper function of your digestive system
12. Your body uses ___ to make hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body
13. Waxy, fat-like substance that is found in only animal products