NUR 3183 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Gastric Acid, Pancreatic Juice
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Food: any substance that contains nutrients which provides energy and other materials needed to build and maintain body cells. Natural food: a food free of food colors, and synthetic flavors or substances. Processed food: a food that has been specially treated or changed (at home or in processing plant) from its natural state. Fortified food: a food to which one or more nutrients (usually vitamins or minerals) have been added. Enriched food: generally refers to replacing nutrients lost in processing. Nutrition: the science that links to health and disease and includes the process by which humans ingest, absorb, transport, and excrete food constituents as nutrients. Malnutrition: any condition caused by and excess, deficiency, or imbalance of energy and/or nutrients. Metabolism: represents all the chemical reactions that take place in the body: anabolic reactions: those that build (synthesize) compounds and usually require energy, catabolic reactions: those that break down (degrade) compounds and often produce energy.
