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| Nutrient | A chemical substance in food that helps maintain the body. |
| Nutrition | The study of how your body uses the nutrients in the food you eat. |
| Malnutrition | A lack of the right proportions of nutrients over an extended period. |
| Deficiency Disease | Illness caused by the lack of a sufficient amount of a nutrient. |
| Phytochemicals | Compounds from plants that are active in the human body. |
| Fortified Foods | A source of added nutrients in the diet that are in greater amounts than what would naturally occur in the food. |
| Carbohydrates | The body's chief source of energy. |
| Glucose | A form of sugar carried it the bloodstream for energy throughout the body. |
| Fiber | A form of complex carbohydrates that come from plants that humans can not digest. |
| Fats | Important energy source, that belong to a larger group of compounds call lipids. |
| Fatty Acid | A chemical chain that contain carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms. |
| Saturated Fatty Acids | Fatty acid that have as many hydrogen atoms as they can hold. |
| Unsaturated Fatty Acid | Fatty acid tha have fewer hydrogen atoms than they can hold. |
| Monounsaturated Fatty Acids | Missing one hydrogen atom. |
| Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids | Missing two or more hydrogen atoms. |
| Proteins | Chemical compounds that are found in every cell. Used for growth, maintenance and repairing of tissues. |
| Vitamins | Complex organic substance you need in small amounts for normal growth, maintenance and reproduction. |
| Fat-soluble Vitamines | Dissolve in fat , examples are Vit. A, D,E, & K and can be toxic. |
| Water-soluable Vitamines | Dissolve in water, examples are Vit.C and B-complex |
| Minerals | Are inorganic substance that becomes part of the bones, soft tissue and body fluids. They help to regulate body processes. |
