Across
- 1. a substance in food that provides energy or helps form body tissues and that is necessary for life and growth
- 6. found in all human and animal tissues, needed to make vitamin D, cell membranes, certain hormones, and bile
- 7. sugars, starches, and fiber
- 9. you can live without it only for a few days
- 11. a substance that is able to protect body structures from a highly chemically reactive form of oxygen
- 15. energy unit
- 18. a conditition in which there are not enough red blood cells or hemoglobin to carry oxygen around the body
- 19. a disorder in which bones become brittle and break easily
- 21. a double sugar found in candies, table sugar
- 22. the science or study of food and the ways in which the body uses food
- 23. a single sugar that is the most important sugar in the body
- 25. most of it comes frombaked goods, snack foods, can goods, and lunchmeats
Down
- 2. vital for muscle movement and nerve signals
- 3. a dietary pattern that includes few or no animal products
- 4. the sum of chemical processes that takes place in your body to keep you alive and active
- 5. they are needed in small amounts to maintain health and allow growth
- 8. occurs when you don't drink enough fluid
- 10. chemical elements that are needed for certain body processes, like bone formation
- 12. the body's quickest energy reserve
- 13. made up of amin acids, needed to build and repair body structures and to regulate processes in the body
- 14. the best source of it in diet are red meats
- 16. the main form of energy storage in the body
- 17. milk sugar
- 20. a single sugar that is sweeter than table sugar
- 24. most of it is found in bones