Health (Vocab and Other)

Question 1

balanced diet

Answer 1

a variety of foods and snacks

Question 2

serving

Answer 2

a single portion of food

Question 3

tofu

Answer 3

soft soybean cake

Question 4

pasta

Answer 4

paste or dough

Question 5

Food Guide Pyramid/ My Plate

Answer 5

a chart showing the number of daily servings from each of the five food groups needed for a balanced diet

Question 6

Nutrients

Answer 6

substances that your body needs to work and grow well

Question 7

Proteins

Answer 7

nutrients needed for building body cells and repairing damaged cells

Question 8

Carbohydrates

Answer 8

nutrients that are the body’s most useful source of energy and fiber

Question 9

Fats

Answer 9

nutrients that provide the body with energy and carry certain vitamins into the blood

Question 10

dietary guidelines

Answer 10

suggestions for making healthful food choices that can lower your risk of disease

Question 11

Cholesterol

Answer 11

a soft, waxy substance in all your body cells

Question 12

empty calories

Answer 12

calories from foods that have a large amount of fats and sugars but few other nutrients.

Question 13

additive

Answer 13

a chemical, other than a basic food, that food manufactures add during processing.

Question 14

enrich

Answer 14

to add nutrients that were lost during processing of a food

Question 15

fortify

Answer 15

to add new nutrients to a food

Question 16

preservative

Answer 16

a food additive that keeps a food from spoiling quickly

Question 17

ingredient

Answer 17

something that goes into making a food product

Question 18

processed

Answer 18

changed in some way

Question 19

eating disorder

Answer 19

a loss of control over normal eating patterns

Question 20

anorexia nervosa

Answer 20

an eating disorder in which a person does not eat enough food, extreme dangerous loss of weight

Question 21

bulimia

Answer 21

an eating disorder in which a person eats large amounts of food and then does not eat for a time or purges for out of their body

Question 22

fad diet

Answer 22

a popular diet that may not be nutritionally sound.

Question 23

body image

Answer 23

view of their own body

Question 24

communicable disease

Answer 24

disease that can passed to a person from another person, an animal, or an object.

Question 25

noncommunicable disease

Answer 25

a disease that can not be spread to a person from another living thing

Question 26

bacteria

Answer 26

a type of one called organism

Question 27

virus

Answer 27

a microscopic particle that can only re produce inside a living cell

Question 28

microbe

Answer 28

tiny organism or particle, visible only with a microscope

Question 29

depression

Answer 29

feelings of severe despondent, and dejection

Question 30

anxiety

Answer 30

a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.

Question 31

Phobia

Answer 31

an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.