1. Diet: a special course food where one restricts themselves, maybe to lose weight or for medical reasons or what a person eats.
2. Calorie: measure of energy in food. The energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram or kilogram through 1 degree Celsius.
3. Macronutrient: A substance that is required in large amounts by living organisms, in particular.
4. Micronutrient: a chemical element or substance that is in small amounts for normal growth and development.
5. DV (Daily Value): a guide to the nutrients in one serving of food.
6. Protein: a organic compound having large molecules composed of chains of amino acids and are important for living organisms.
7. Carbohydrates: a organic compound in foods and living tissue and includes sugar, starch, and cellulose.
8. Saturated Fat: has saturated fatty acids, solid at room temperature, and comes mainly from animal products.
9. Unsaturated Fat: fats or fatty acids that are liquid at room temperature, double bonds, and from plants and some animals.
10. Trans Fat: an unsaturated fatty acid that happens from margarines and manufactured cooking oils as a result of the hydrogenation process. If you have a large amount of trans fat, then it can increase your chances for atherosclerosis.
11. Minerals: used in commercials for making energy/fizzy soft drinks.
12. Nutrients: a substance that provides nourishment essential for growth and maintenance of life.
13. Cholesterol: waxy substance that's found in the fats in your blood.
14. Fiber: vital importance to digestion by helping the food move through the digestive tract.
15. Added Sugar: sugars that are added to foods or beverages when they are processed or prepared.
16. Organic: any part of a large group of gas, liquid, or solid chemical compounds that have carbon.
17. Whole Grain: made with or containing whole unprocessed grain.
18. Fructose: a hexose sugar that is mainly found in honey and fruit.
19. Omega 3 and Fatty Acids: fatty acids that are found in fish oil and work to lower the cholesterol level.
20. Pasteurization: discovered by Louis Pasteur: that if you heat up substance high enough then it can kill most of the bacteria in it.
21. Metabolism: collection of chemical reactions that occur in body's cells.
22. BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate): The BMR calculates the number of calories that you would burn in a day if you were motionless. Also, as you get older, the rate of your metabolism decreases.
23. BMI (Body Mass Index): a calculation that uses your height and weight to estimate how much body fat you have.
24. Malnutrition: lack of proper nutrition either by not having enough to eat or not eating enough of the right things.
25. Obesity: the condition of being a more than overweight.
26. Vitamin A: found in carrots and helps you to see at night. aka retinol.
27. Vitamin C: found in oranges and helps your body heal when you get a cut. aka ascorbic acid.
28. Vitamin D: in milk and helps your bones. aka group in liver and fish oils.
29. Calcium: a mineral formed and stored in the hard part of bones.
30. Folic Acid: a vitamin in the B complex, and can be found in leafy vegetables.