Nutrition Unit Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Contribute to water balance, metabolism, and nerve & muscle damage
  2. 5. Make skin, muscle & bones, and repair damages tissue
  3. 8. Provide the body’s most important source of energy
  4. 11. Vitamin that helps with blood clotting.
  5. 14. A simple sugar and the body's chief fuel.
  6. 15. Energy value of food measured in units of heat.
  7. 17. Helps move waste through digestive system, cannot be digested
  8. 19. Nutrient that helps build and maintain body tissues.
Down
  1. 1. Carries nutrients & oxygen throughout the body
  2. 3. Substances in food that your body needs to function properly.
  3. 4. Control body processes, including digestion, healing and energy production
  4. 6. Food in which nutrients that were lost in processing have been added back.
  5. 7. Substances that make up body proteins.
  6. 9. Self-induced starvation is controlled by this disorder.
  7. 10. Natural drive that protects you from starvation.
  8. 12. Fat-like substance produced in the liver of all animals.
  9. 13. Addition of nutrients that are not naturally present.
  10. 16. A desire rather than a need to eat.
  11. 18. Insulate against cold & protect internal organs