Nutrition

Molecules that combine to form proteins. “The building blocks of life.”

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A condition in which you lack enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen to your body’s tissues. Can make you feel tired/weak.

• Anemia

• Overnutrition

• Foodborne illness

• Hyponatremia

• Diabetes

Sugar molecules; one of the three main nutrients found in food/drinks. provide energy to the body, regulate blood glucose, help with the breakdown of fatty acids

(a)  

a fat that is essential for good health; helps build cell walls and body tissues.

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When you use or lose more fluid than you take in, and your body doesn’t have enough water/fluids to carry out its normal functions.

(a)  

An excess of water in the body, usually caused by a disorder that decreases the body’s ability to excrete water or increases the body’s tendency to retain it

(a)  

Why is Overhydration rare?

a thin, threadlike structure that combines to form animal or plant tissue, or a thin, threadlike structure made synthetically or from minerals

• Fiber

• Cholesterol

• Glucose

Fiber can/is-

• lower blood cholesterol and glucose levels

• Found in oats, peas, beans, apples, citrus fruits, carrots, barley

• builds cell walls and body tissues

• change food into energy

Difference Between Soluble and Insoluble Fiber

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