| A | B |
|---|
| Rehydration | Restoring lost body fluids |
| Obesity | Excess body fat or adipose tissue |
| Weight Cycling | The cycle of losing, regaining, losing and regaining weight |
| Electrolytes | Minerals that become electrically charged when in solution-as they are in bodily fluids |
| Food Intolerance | A negative reaction to a food or an ingredient in food |
| Cross-contamintion | The spreading of bacteria from one food to another |
| Pasteurized | Treated by a process of heating to destroy or slow the growth of pathogens |
| Megadoses | Very large amounts of nutrient supplements |
| Body Mass Index | The ratio of weight to height |
| Food allergy | A condition in which the body's immune system overreacts to substances in some foods |
| Nutrient supplements | Pills, powders, liquids, and other synthetic forms of nutrients |
| Undernutrition | Not consuming enough essential nutrients or for normal body funcitons |
| contaminant | A substance that spoils or infects |
| Bulimia nervosa | A disorder in which cycles of overreating are followed by some form of purging or clearing of the digestive tract |
| Anorexia nervosa | A disorder in which the irrational fear of becoming obese results in sever weight loss from self-induced starvation |
