Healthy Eating

Fat supplies ____________.

• energy

• protein

• carbohydrates

• vitamins

How can you calculate the amount of water you need in a day?

• Half your body weight in ounces

• Your age in years

• The number of meals you eat

• A standard 8 cups per day

Food provides _______________________, which are substances that the body needs to regulate bodily functions, promote growth, repair body tissue, and obtain energy.

• Vitamins

• Minerals

• Nutrients

• Calories

Saturated fat should make up no more than ____% of your daily calories

• 5

• 10

• 15

• 20

Dietary fiber helps to reduce risk of

• heart disease

• lung cancer

• kidney disease

• high blood pressure

Lack of calcium can cause

• osteoporosis

• rickets

• scurvy

• anemia

Nutrient that occurs naturally in rocks and soil; needed only in small amounts.

• vitamin

• carbohydrate

• mineral

• protein

1 gram of fat is equivalent to ______________ calories

• 4

• 7

• 9

• 12

1 gram of carbohydrate is equivalent to ___________ calories

• 2

• 4

• 6

• 8

Nutrients are needed for: energy, growth, repair of tissue, regulate body processes

• energy and growth only

• repair of tissue and regulate body processes

• all of the above

• none of the above