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Nutrition
Health
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nutrition | The process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth |
| Fad Diets | A popular diet that doesn't last long and isn't very effective |
| Vitamins | Any of a group of organic compounds that are essential for normal growth and nutrition and are required in small quantities in the diet because they cannot be synthesized by the body. |
| Minerals | Any of the inorganic elements that are essential to the functioning of the human body and are obtained from foods |
| Appetite | A natural desire to satisfy the bodily need for food |
| Hunger | A feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with a desire to eat |
| Nutrients | A substance that provides nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life |
| Anorexia | An emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat |
| Bulimia | An emotional disorder involving distortion of body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight, in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by depression and self-induced vomiting, purging, or fasting |
| Proteins | Any of a class of nitrogenous organic compounds that consist of large molecules composed of one or more long chains of amino acids and are an essential part of all living organisms |
| Lipids | Any of a class of organic compounds that are fatty acids or their derivatives and are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvent |
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