Essential Nutrients - Answers Dietary components the body must get from foods or supplements
because it can not manufacture them to meets its needs. Proteins, fats, carbs, vitamins, minerals, and
water
nutrition - Answers the science of food and dietary supplements and how the body uses them in health
macronutrient - Answers an important nutrient required by the body in relatively large amounts.
What do macronutrients provide? - Answers Energy.
Where do you get macronutrients from? - Answers Proteins, fats and carbs
micronutrient - Answers an important nutrient required by the body in minute amounts
What does micronutrients do? - Answers Helps body to function(vitamins and minerals)
Where do you get micronutrients from? - Answers Vitamins and minerals
How are these nutrients available to the body? - Answers Through digestion
What must a adequate diet provide? - Answers nutrients and energy
Energy - Answers Is the capacity to do work, calories measure energy
What are the sources of energy - Answers Fat, protein and carbs
Digestive System - Answers Gastrointestinal Tract(GI)
3 functions of GI - Answers 1. Digestion is the breakdown
2. Absorption happens in intestines
3. Elimination
What is an ideal source of energy? - Answers Carbs
Carbohydrate - Answers an essential nutrient, required for energy for cells; sugars, starches, and dietary
fiber are all carbohydrates
Monosaccharides - Answers Single sugar molecules
Disaccharides - Answers Double sugar molecules(pairs of single sugar)
Complex Carbs - Answers Multiple sugar units
Glycogen - Answers The liver and muscles take up glucose to provide carbohydrate storage in the form
of a starch