Vocabulary - Chapter 6: The Energy Nutrients

Chemical substances from food the body needs to live.

• glucose

• fat

• nutrient

• carbohydrate

The study of how the body uses the nutrients in the foods that are eaten.

• deficiency disease

• nutrition

• nutrient

• protein-energy malnutrition

  PEM

The lack of the right proportions of nutrients over an extended period.

• malnutrition

• hydrogenation

• antibody

• calorie

Units used to measure the energy value of foods.

• fat

• dietary fiber

• enzyme

• calorie

An illness caused by the lack of a sufficient amount of a nutrient.

• deficiency disease

• protein-energy malnutrition

  (PEM)

• malnutrition

• metabolism

The body's chief source of energy.

• fat

• carbohydrates

• artificial sweetener

• glucose

The form of sugar carried in the bloodstream for energy use throughout the body.

• protein

• amino acid

• calorie

• glucose

A form of complex carbohydrates from plants that humans cannot digest.

• dietary fiber

• protein

• fat

• saliva

Products that sweeten foods with fewer calories and less carbohydrates than sugar.

• glucose

• artificial sweeteners

• amino acids

• diabetes

Important energy sources.

• proteins

• dietary fiber

• fats

• carbohydrates