3.1 Flashcards
(26 cards)
How do you make sure your body gets the right amount of all seven nutrients it needs?
You have to eat a variety of foods in a balanced diet
What is a nutritionist
A person who advises people on what food to eat and in which amounts to have a balanced diet
What is the schijf van vijf?
A chart to help the people in the Netherlands choose foods that contain all nutrients needed to stay healthy
When do you belong to a food group
When you contain the same types of nutrients
What is the Eatwell guide?
It helps you get a balance of healthier and more sustainable food. It shows how much you eat should overall come from each food group
What message do all foot guides share?
To drink enough water or low fat sugar free drinks
Eat at least five portions vegetables or fruits
Limit your sugar, salt and fat intake
The amount of food you should eat to stay healthy depends on your?
Your age, gender, body size and activity level
What are the indicators for bmi
Many muscles weight a lot, which means your heavier and a high bmi, but that doesn’t mean your overweight and depending on your life stage
What is body mass index
Looking at someone’s ideal weight by combining their weight and height
What is a formula to calculate your bmi
Your weight in kg divided by your height in metres squared
When are you obese and underweight etc
With a bmi lower that 18,5 underweight
18,5-25 is healthy
25-31 is overweight
31> obese
Your body processes food in four different stages, what is the first one
Ingestion, is getting the food inside your mouth
What is the second stage of processing food
Digestion, it’s for carbohydrates, fats and proteins they must be broken down into very small particles before they can enter your bloodstream and reach your cells
What is absorption
It’s the process of getting small food particles into your blood stream
Why do vitamins, minerals and water do not need to be digested?
They already consist of very small particles that can quickly pass into your bloodstream and reach your cells
What is mechanical digestion?
When your cheek and tongue move the food between your teeth and chew it into smaller parts/splitting up the nutrients in smaller groups
What is chemical digestion
The second step of digestion, the smal food parts are changed into even smaller food parts
What makes you help swallow food and what is it’s function
It’s saliva, it contains enzymes
What is an enzyme?
A protein that speeds up the chemical breakdown of carbohydrates, proteins and fats in your mouth and intestines
What is Amylase
It’s an enzyme produced by salivary glands near your mouth, they help break down large chains of starch
What are protease enzymes?
Enzymes in your stomach that break down large proteins into amino acids
What does the enzyme lipase?
It breaks down fats into fatty acids and glycerol in the intestines
What are the final products of digestion?
Glucose, amino acids, fatty acids, glycerol, water, vitamins and minerals
What can enzymes do because of their shape
They can bind to a specific nutrient that needs to be broken down and create new substances that go their separate ways
