Food and Diet Vocabulary
Malnutrition – Lack of proper nutrition
Sentence – Some of the more subtle forms of malnutrition are difficult to identify.
Health – The state of being free from illness or injury
Sentence – Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Nutrients – A substance providing nourishment essential for the maintenance of life and growth
Sentence – These are poor in nutrients and their peaty soils have little capacity to absorb any more acid without deleterious effects.
Overeat – To eat to excess
Sentence – This means that they overeat at every meal and eventually this leads to obesity.
Vitamins – organic compounds essential for normal growth
Sentence – Vitamins are essential for healthy growth.
Over weight – excessive or extra weight
Sentence – Over weight bureaus Overweight burros can also develop a condition that threatens their well – known walking ability.
Obesity – the unhealthy condition of being very fat or overweight
Sentence – These are three big lies that nutritionists and obesity experts say are making the rounds this season.
Illness – a period of sickness affecting the body and mind.
Sentence – She struggled against terrible odds to overcome her illness.
Diet – all the foods a person or animal usually eats
Sentence – Scientists have established possible links between cancer and diet.
Calorie – a unit for measuring the amount of energy we get from food.
Sentence – The latter provides maximum calorie burning and conditions the body to continue to burn fat hours after completing the workout.
Carbohydrates – substances in food that is a major source of energy
Sentence – Certain types or parts of complex carbohydrates are indigestible: they form the fibre which adds bulk to food.
Body mass index (BMI) – a weight to height ratio
Sentence – The body mass index can be used to access physical fitness of a human body.
Junk – unhealthy food and food products
Sentence – Junk food especially pizza with a glass of aerated drink is very popular among the youngsters.
Saturated fat – A type of fat that’s found in butter, cheese
Sentence – Diets that are high in saturated fat and cholesterol tend to clog up our arteries, thereby reducing the blood flow to our hearts and brains.
Trans fat – an artificial fat that makes food last longer and taste better.
Sentence – The committee’s recommendations are, in essence, to note calories on the front of packs, and to provide a scale to indicate the relative quantity of added sugar, sodium, saturated fat and trans fat.
Sugar – Natural carbohydrate found in fruits and vegetables.
Sentence – This enabled the country to become self-sufficient in sugar.
Salt – White crystalline substance, adding taste to the food.
Sentence – The best smell is bread, the best savour salt, the best love that of children.
Pescetarian diet – diet that includes vegetarian food and fish but no other form of meat.
Sentence – My cousin thinks farming animals and chickens is cruel and bad for the planet, so he consumes a pescetaria diet.
Vegan diet – With plant foods only
Sentence – If you are curious about a Vegetarian or Vegan diet, I highly recommend reading Diet.
Preservatives -a chemical substance used for preventing food from spoiling or wood from decaying
Sentence – It says on the label that no preservatives or artificial colourings have been added.
Cancer – serious illness that is usually difficult to cure and often leads to death
Sentence – There have been great advances in the treatment of cancer.
Cholesterol – substance in body cells that can cause heart disease if their levels in the blood are too high.
Sentence – Many people experienced a drop in their cholesterol levels when they consumed oat bran.
