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-Nutrient: A chemical
substance in food that
helps maintain the body.
-Nutrition: The study of
how your body uses the
food that you eat.
-Malnutrition: is the lack
of the right proportions
of nutrients over an
extended period
(A nutrient is a chemical substance in food
that helps maintain the body.)
Some provide energy. All help build cells
and tissues, regulate bodily processes
such as breathing. No single food supplies
all the nutrients the body needs to
function.
Deficiency Disease: failure to meet your
nutrient needs.
 Vitamins
 Minerals
 Water
 Protein
Sugars
 Carbohydrates
 Fats
Cellulos
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 The
body’s chief source of energy
 Sugar
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Simple Carbohydrates
 Glucose:
Blood
 Fructose: Fruit
 Galactose: Milk
 Sucroce: Table sugar
 Starches
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Complex Carbohydrates
 Fiber
Important
Lipid
energy source
family which includes fats and oils
Hydrogenation:
adds hydrogen atoms to
unsaturated fatty acids (liquid) turning them into
more saturated solid fats
Crisco
and margarine sticks
Cholesterol:
the body
Important…
fatlike substance found in every cell in
found in skin tissue, produces hormones
Two types: Dietary and Blood
Provide
energy, encourage growth and tissue
repair
Made up of small units called amino acids
20
important to the human body: 9 your body can’t
make and 11 it can
Complete
protein: animal foods and soy
Incomplete proteins: plant foods
Must
pair 2 foods together: beans and rice
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 Are complex organic substances
 Normal growth, maintenance, and reproduction
 Your body cannot produce all vitamins you can
get those by eating a nutritious diet.
 Fat-soluble
vitamins: carried in fatty parts
of foods and dissolve in fats (body stores
them in fat... build up can be dangerous)
 Water-soluble vitamins: dissolve in water
(body does not store them)
Fat-Soluble Vitamins
 Vitamin
A
 Vitamin D
 Vitamin E
 Vitamin K
Water-Soluble Vitamins
 Vitamin
BComplex
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Thiamin (vitamin B1)
Riboflavin (vitamin B2)
Niacin (nicotinamide,
nicotinic acid)
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine,
pyridoxal,
pyridoxamine)
Folacin (folic acid)
Vitamin B12
 Vitamin
C
Minerals
 In
addition to vitamins your body also
needs 15 minerals that help regulate cell
function and provide structure for cells.
Major minerals, in terms of amount
present, include calcium, phosphorus,
and magnesium. In addition, your body
needs smaller amounts of chromium,
copper, fluoride, iodine, iron, manganese,
molybdenum, selenium, zinc, chloride,
potassium and sodium.
 Amounts needed for most of these
minerals is quite small and excessive
amounts can be toxic to your body.
Water
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Water is your body's most important nutrient, is
involved in every bodily function, and makes
up 70- 75% of your total body weight. Water
helps you to maintain body temperature,
metabolize body fat, aids in digestion,
lubricates and cushions organs, transports
nutrients, and flushes toxins from your body.
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Everyone should drink at least 64 ounces per
day, and if you exercise or are overweight,
even more. Your blood is approximately 90%
water and is responsible for transporting
nutrients and energy to muscles and for
taking waste from tissues.
Nutrients that have
Calories:
 Proteins
 Carbohydrates
 Fats
Definition of a Calorie:
A unit of measure for
energy in food
Calories per gram:
Protein calories
1 Gram = 4
Carbohydrates calories
1 Gram = 4
Fat
1 Gram = 9
calories