Nutrition

3. Reduces blood clots and helps the functioning of the nervous system
5. Grow and repair body tissues
7. A complex carbs that passes out of your body without being digested
10. A waxy, fatlike substance that is found only in animal products
11. Foods like fruit, vegetables, and milk, natural sugar
13. The small links that build proteins
14. Supplies energy, forms cells, maintains body temperature, protects nerves
15. Harmful fats, made by manufacturers

1. nutrients that occur naturally in rocks and soil
2. Fats, Proteins, Vitamins, Minerals, Carbohydrates, water
4. Supply energy for our body's functions
6. The measured unit of the amount of energy released when nutrients are broken down
8. Foods like potatoes, grain, rice, cereal, manufactured sugar
9. The chemical process by which your body breaks down food to release this energy
12. vitamins that help protect healthy cells from the damage caused by the normal aging process