HU – Nutrition Exam With Complete Solution
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HU – Nutrition Exam With Complete Solution 1 / 5 1. hunger the impulse to seek food because you physically need it 2. appetite the desire to eat. Normally accompanies hunger, but is more mental ... than physical 3. nutrient a component of food or drink that sustains people 4. nutrition study of food and drink's effect on the body 5. Recommended Dietary Allowance (aka RDA) the average daily amount of things most healthy people should consume 6. kilocalorie the unit of energy in food the body can use. It is interchangeable with large Calories (with a capital C), though small calories (with a lowercase C) are 1/1000th of a kilocalorie 7. energy the ability to do work 8. proteins, carbs, fats the three main sources of energy 9. dehydration abnormal depletion of body fluids 10. hyponatremia what happens when there's too much water in the blood, which leads to not enough sodium 11. natrium another word for sodium 12. protein the second-most abundant substance in the body, and the major components of most cells. They are made of amino acids 13. amino acids a building block of proteins. There are 20 total. 9 of them are essential - as in, they must come from things we eat, and 11 of them are already produced by the body 14. meat this substance has all 20 amino acids, but vegetables, on the other hand, don't have all 9 essential ones at the same CONTINUES... [Show More]
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