Nutrition for Healthy Living –
Chapter 1 Comprehensive
Study Guide and Key
Concepts Review
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Nutrients
The life-sustaining substances in food
Nutrition
The scientific study of nutrients, chemicals necessary for proper body functioning and how the body uses them.
Chemistry
the study of the composition and characteristics of matter and changes that can occur in it
Six classes of nutrients
Carbs, fats and other lipids, proteins, vitamins, minerals and water
Cell
The smallest living functional unit in an organism
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