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Food and Nutrition
Based off Options for Youth Packets
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12th Grade
09/10/2009

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Term
Healthy Weight
Definition
The weight that is right for your age and height
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Weight Control
Definition
Keeping your body at a healthy weight
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Obese
Definition
having an excessive amount of body fat
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Underweight
Definition
a weight that is much lower than a healthy weight
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Excess Fat
Definition
Causes strain on the heart and lungs
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Obesity
Definition
has many health risks
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Physical Activity
Definition
Whenever a person moves their body
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Vital Functions
Definition
Functions needed to keep you alive, such as breathing and your heartbeat
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Caloric Fat Allowances
Definition
No more than 20 - 35% of your daily caloric intake should be from fats
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Calorie Balance
Definition
Eating the same number of calories as you burn
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Apple-Shaped Person
Definition
Body type resembles apple, tend to accumulate fat around the stomach.
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Caloric Needs
Definition
Depends on age, gender, weight, height, and activity level.
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Importance of Calories
Definition
Give energy, Help carry out vital functions, burn them constantly
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Dangers of being Underweight
Definition
Lack of growth, muscles and bones lose strength, smaller brains, overall bad sense of well-being, more prone to getting sick, tire faster, may die if lose more weight
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Weight Control
Definition
keeping your body at a healthy weight
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Fad Diet
Definition
A quick weight loss diet that doesn't usually work and can harm your health.
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Binge Eating
Definition
An eating disorder that involves the rapid eating(or chewing and spitting out) of thousands of calories in a short time
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Bulimia Nervosa
Definition
An eating disorder that causes people to binge and purge themselves
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Anorexia Nervosa
Definition
An eating disorder that causes people to starve themselves.
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Growth Spurts: Affect on weight
Definition
before growth spurt occurs, normal to gain weight
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Carbon Monoxide
Definition
a colorless, odorless deadly gas
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first aid
Definition
treatment given right after an accident that help to relieve pain and prevent further injury
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major burns
Definition
make skin red and sore
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choking
Definition
object gets stuck in someone's throat
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
Definition
a lifesaving technique that helps save a victim who isn't breathing and whose heart has stopped
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antidote
Definition
a substance that works against a poison
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abdominal thrust
Definition
technique that can help save a choking victim
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Foodborne Illness
Definition
disease caused by a pathogen in food
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pathogen
Definition
an organism or substance that invades the body and damages its cells
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Danger Zone
Definition
Temperatures at which bacteria grow the fastest 40 degrees - 140 degrees
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bacteria
Definition
tiny organism that are found everywhere. A few types can cause food - borne illness
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toxin
Definition
poison
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Cross - contamination
Definition
Spreading bacteria to a clean food from contaminated work surfaces, utensils, hands, or food.
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