A Healthy Life 4.1 Worksheet

What is a carbohydratate?
What are simple carbohydrates?
Cleans the intestinal walls
This is used to build and repair cells.
20 different building blocks
Transport vitamins through the bloodstream
Eating these can lead to heart disease.
These originate from living things.
Maintains your connective tissue.
Helps your eyesight
Essential for normal metabolism of the body's cells
Strengthens bones and teeth
Helps protect cells from damage
Calcium, potassium and iron
Is needed in your blood for muscle contraction
Helps muscles move correctly
Enables the blood to carry oxygen around the body
Without this you could only survive a few days
Food energy is measured in this unit
fruits, vegetables, grains, proteins, dairy
Make up 1/2 of your diet
At least half of all these should be whole
In order to maintain a ____ ___ ___ the calories consumed must equal the calories eaten
The lack of proper nutrition