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Explain how nutrient-dense foods can help you stay fit?
Nutrient dense foods provide the maximum nutrients for least amount of calories.
What contains a large amount of nutrients for the number of calories it provides?
nutrient dense foods
What are nutrients dense foods?
Foods that do not follow nutrient density and contain less nutrients that calories. Ex. chocolate ice cream cookies cake
What foods are usually high in calories and low in other nutrients?
sweet and fat foods. fastfood. anything processed. (not fresh or biological)
What are non nutrient dense foods?
Foods that do not follow nutrient density and contain less nutrients that calories. Ex. chocolate ice cream cookies cake
What foods can cause weight loss in two weeks?
No food by itself can make you lose weight. Eat nutrient dense foods (foods high in nutrients and low in calories) and exercise daily.
Nutrient dense refers to foods that?
Nutrient-dense refers to foods that have a lot of nutrients in a small amount. The term is usually used to describe grains, like quinoa and oats, vegetables and fruits, which pack a lot of vitamins and minerals in a small serving. Nutrient-dense foods are ideal for your health, because your body gets a lot of good nutrients without a lot of calories, preventing you from overeating.
How does the density of food effect how many calories are in it?
It doesn't always. But more dense foods tend to be higher in calories. This is usually because there is more food. For example, less-dense foods tend to be airy or very watery (think apples, for instance). Something like corn bread is thicker and mroe dense. With less air or water (both no calories) to take up space, you get more food per cubic unit that you do for less dense foods. More food = more calories.
Do processed foods often have high amounts of protein?
No. Processed foods are generally, but not always, low in essential nutrients and high in calories, fat, and sodium.
Foods that provide calories but a few essential nutrients?
Ice cream and potato chips are foods that provide calories but very few essential nutrients.
What is the definition of nutrient dense food?
Nutrient dense food- is defined as the density of nutrients to kcalories. Nutrient dense foods provide more nutrients relative to kcalories.
What are foods that have calories but have no nutrients?
There are very few foods that have no nutrients whatsoever, but still have calories. More foods would fall into the range that they contain calories, but very little nutrients. These are known as "empty calories", meaning that they really do not help for the body. Some examples of these would be fried foods, refined sugars / starches, bleanced flours, and high-fat foods (like butter and lard).
