Chapter 17
Terms
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- AI
- adequate intake
- BMR
- basal metabolic rate
- g
- gram
- RDA
- Recommended Dietary Allowance
- Calorie
- An expression of the energy content of food.
- Six Groups of Nutrients
- Carbohydrates Lipids Proteins Vitamins Minerals Water
- Carbohydrates
- Complex starch in potatoes to the simple sugars of glucose, fructose and sucrose
- PKU
- Phenylketonuria
- Phenylketonuria
- Hereditary disease with accumulation of phenylalanine and urinary excretion of its matabolites; leads to mental retardation if not controlled.
- sucr-
- sucrose, table sugar
- glyc/o-
- glycogen
- gluc
- sugar
- carb/o
- carbon
- LDL
- Low Density Lipoprotein
- Lipids
- Solid at room temperature
- tri-
- three
- un-
- not
- Three types of triglycerides
- Saturated fats; unsaturated and hydrogenated trans fatty acids
- Amino acid
- building blocks of proteins and help build and repair tissue
- syn-
- together
- anti-
- against
- radic-
- root
- -ic
- pertaining to
- syn-
- together
- Vitamin K
- essential for blood clotting
- caroten/e
- yellow-red pigment
- -emia
- blood condition
- hyper-
- above; excessive
- -xanth-
- yellow
- cyanocobalamin
- Vitamin B12
- thiamine
- Vitamin B1
- aden-
- a gland
- -ox-
- oxygen
- Ascorbic acid
- Vitamin C which prevents scurvy
- scurvy
- deficiency of vitamin C
- chol-
- bile
- a-
- without
- poly-
- many
- Na
- sodium
- K
- potassium
- calcium
- Ca
- hyperkalemia
- High level of potassium in the blood
- hypokalemia
- low level of potassium in the blood
- hypernatremia
- high level of sodium in the blood
- hyponatremia
- low level of sodium in the blood
- -emia
- blood condition
- -kal-
- potassium
- hyper-
- excessive, above
- lactovegetarian
- person whose diet consists of only plants and dairy products
- vegan
- one who eats plants and no animal or dairy products
- adiposity
- Excessive accumulation of fat in a site, organ or body
- adipos-
- fat
- dyslipidemia
- abnormal levels of blood lipids
- dys-
- bad, difficult, painful
- -lipid-
- fat