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- 5. Important for the purpose of blood clotting and the functioning of your nervous system, the essential ingredient in the formation and maintenance of bones and teeth
- 6. This fat has few of the benefits of unsaturated fats and many of the negatives of saturated fats
- 8. The process of maintaining a steady state inside your body
- 11. "The amount of energy released when nutrients are broken down is measured in units called calories"
- 12. Nutrients that occur naturally in rocks and soil
- 13. Helps to protect healthy cells from the damage caused by the normal aging process as well as from certain types of cancer
- 15. This fat can continue to have hydrogen added to its molecule
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- 1. Works with sodium to maintain water balance in the body
- 2. An amino acid can your body not manufacture
- 3. Necessary for healthy red blood cells, carries oxygen from your lungs to all parts of your body
- 4. This will form on the walls of their blood vessels if a person has too much cholesterol in their diet
- 7. This acid consists of smaller substances that are bound together chemically in long chains of smaller links
- 9. "The chemical process by which your body breaks down food to release this energy"
- 10. This fat already has all of the hydrogen that its molecule can hold
- 14. Supplies your body with energy, forms your cells, maintains body temperature, and protects your nerves