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Life Cycle Nutrition Key Terms Page 1

Directions: Use the chart on the following table and in your words use state adopted texts,
Food for Today, pp 76-137, or Guide to Good Food, pp. 33-56 or the Internet, to define the
following terms. Place definitions in your academic notebook for study purposes.
Key Term
1. Aerobic activity

Your Definition

2. Aerobic exercise
3. Anaerobic exercise
4. Anorexia nervosa
5. Basal metabolism
6. Behavior modification
7. Binge eating disorder
8. Body composition
9. Body mass index
(BMI)
10. Bulimia nervosa
11. Calorie
12. Chronic diabetes
13. Colostrum
14. Dehydration
15. Eating disorder
16. Fad diet
17. Fetus

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18. Fitness
19. Food allergy
20. Food intolerance
21. Healthy weight
22. Lactation
23. Life span
24. Nutrient-dense foods
25. Obesity
26. Obstetrician
27. Overweight
28. Pediatrician
29. Peer pressure
30. Processed food
31. Recommended Dietary
Allowance (RDA)
32. Stress
33. Underweight
34. USDA Food Guide
35. Waist-to-hip ratio
36. Weight management

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Name_____________________________Date__________________Period_____
5.02D Life Cycle Nutrition Key Terms
Directions: Use the chart on the following table and in your words use state adopted texts, Food
for Today, pp 76-137, or Guide to Good Food, pp. 33-56 or the Internet, to define the following
terms. Place definitions in your academic notebook for study purposes.
Key Term
1. Aerobic activity

Your Definition
A physical activity that speeds a persons heart rate and breathing

2. Aerobic exercise

A vigorous activity that causes the heart rate to increase for at least 20
minutes
Running a 100-meter dash or lifting weights are examples of a shortintense burst of burning energy
An eating disorder where the person starves themselves

3. Anaerobic exercise
4. Anorexia nervosa
5. Basal metabolism

8. Body composition

Just enough energy our body needs to stay alive and carry on vital
processes
Making gradual changes to your eating habits and activities in order to
loose out
An eating disorder where there is large repeated episodes of uncontrolled
eating amounts of food
Proportions of bone, muscle, fat and tissue that make up body weight

9. Body mass index

(BMI)

A calculation of a persons weight and height to determine overweight or

obesity

10. Bulimia nervosa

11. Calorie

Repeated binges followed by inappropriate behaviors to prevent weight

gain
The unit used to measure the amount of energy value in foods

12. Chronic diabetes

Severe condition in which the body cant control blood sugar levels

13. Colostrum
14. Dehydration

A thick yellowish fluids which has antibodies in breast milk and it will
protect the body from infection
Abnormal loss of body fluids

15. Eating disorder

Abnormal eating behavior that harms one physical or mentally

16. Fad diet

A diet that is popular for a short period of time

17. Fetus

Unborn baby

6. Behavior modification
7. Binge eating disorder

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18. Fitness
The bodys ability to meet physical demands
19. Food allergy

A reaction to the bodys immune system when exposed to protein in foods

20. Food intolerance

21. Healthy weight

A negative physical reaction to food that does not involve the bodys
immune system
A body mass index of 18.5 to 24.9 in an adult

22. Lactation

Producing breast milk (breast-feeding)

23. Life span

Stages of human growth from birth through maturity

24. Nutrient-dense foods

Foods that have more vitamins and minerals compared to the number of
calories it supplies
A condition in which there is excessive fat in the body and the BMI is 30
or more
Doctors who specialize in the care of pregnant women and child birth

25. Obesity
26. Obstetrician
27. Overweight
28. Pediatrician

A condition where a person is 10 % or above normal weight or BMI is 25

thru 29.9
Baby doctors

29. Peer pressure

Influence of people in the same age group

30. Processed food

Foods that have been canned, frozen, dried, cooked, or fortified

31. Recommended Dietary

Allowance (RDA)

Amount of a nutrient needed by 98 % of the people in given age and

gender groups

32. Stress

Physical or mental tension causes by a reaction to a situation

33. Underweight

A condition of being 10 % under your normal weight or a BMI of less

than 18.5
A recommended number of daily savings for each food groups

34. USDA Food Guide

35. Waist-to-hip ratio
36. Weight management

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Its calculated by dividing a persons waist measurement by their help

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Using healthy food choices and exercise to maintain a healthy weight

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