Quiz Chapter 5 Nutrition and Your Health

______ is the physical need for food.

• Hunger

• Appetite

• Cravings

Appetite is a desire, rather than a need, to eat.

• False

• True

What are Nutrients, and what do they do for the body?

• Substances in food that your body needs to grow.

• Substances in food that your body needs to repair itself.

• Nutrients slow you down and make you sick.

• Nutrients supply you with energy.

The process by which the body takes in food and uses it.

The starches and sugars found in foods.

• Proteins

• Carbohydrates

• Fats

What is a simple sugar and the body’s chief fuel.

• Glycogen

• Glucose

• Amino acids

Glycogen is a starch-like substance.

• True

• False

What are Proteins?

• Starch-like substances.

• Simple sugars and the body’s chief fuel.

• Nutrients that help and maintain body tissues.

Define Amino acids.

• Substances that make up body proteins.

• The starches and sugars found in foods.

• Starch-like substances.

Lipid is a fatty substance that does not dissolve in water.

• False

• True