AB2 1.3 Nutrients and Malnutrition

What is malnutrition?

• When a person doesn't get the right amount of food, vitamins or minerals.

• When a person consumes too many calories.

• When a person does not consume enough food.

What is a healthy diet?

• When a person eats lots of meat and bread.

• A balanced diet.

• When a person consumes enough food.

What is kwashiorkor caused by?

• Severe malnutrition

• Overnutrition

• Junk food

What causes scurvy?

• Vitamin A deficiency

• Vitamin C deficiency

• Calcium deficiency

What causes rickets?

• Vitamin A Deficiency

• Vitamin C deficiency

• Vitamin D deficiency

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

What are the five nutrients

• calories, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and vitamins

• carbohydrates, fats, minerals, proteins, and vitamins

• carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, sugars, and salts

What do carbohydrates do for our bodies?

• Gives us strong muscles

• Helps us to digest our food.

• Gives us energy.

• Gives us proteins.

True or False: Fats give us less energy than carbohydrates?

• True

• False

Correct the sentence: Fats give us less energy than proteins

• Fats give us more energy than proteins.

• Fats give us less energy than carbohydrates.

• Fats give us more energy than vitamins

• Fats give us more energy than carbohydrates.

What are nutrients?

• Substances we find in soda.

• When we eat too much food.

• Substances in the foods we eat.

• None of the above