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What are CARBOHYDRATES, PROTEINS and FATS?
These three macronutrients give us energy.
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What is VITAMIN C?
This common vitamin is also known as ASCORBIC ACID.
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What is our MOOD?
One of the newest discoveries of probiotics is that there is a gut-brain connection that allows probiotics to influence this.
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What is the BRAIN STEM?
This part of our brain governs our automatic bodily functions.
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What is REM or Rapid Eye Movement?
This stage of sleep gets its name from the fact that our eyes dart back and forth quickly when we are in this stage.
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What are CARBOHYDRATES?
Though we get energy from other macronutrients, this one is our MAIN source of energy.
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What is VITAMIN B12?
This extremely important vitamin is NOT found in a completely "plant-based" (vegetarian) diet.
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What is BACTERIA?
Probiotics are also know as GOOD _____________.
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What is BUILDING AND REPAIRING CELLS?
In addition to giving us ENERGY and REGULATING BODY PROCESSES, this is the other main job or function of nutrients in our bodies.
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What is REM sleep?
Though it is an extremely important phase of our sleep cycles, we typically spend only 25% of our sleeping time in this phase.
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What is PTYALIN?
The first step in breaking carbohydrates down into simpler sugars happens before the food enters the stomach thanks to this enzyme in saliva.
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What is REFINING? Or CHANGING BROWN RICE INTO WHITE RICE.
Vital vitamins are stripped from brown rice when this happens.
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What is the GUT-BRAIN AXIS?
Probiotics affect mood due to which connecting pathway in the body?
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What is AUTOMATIC BODILY FUNCTION?
Although biofeedback can change these, body functions like DIGESTION, BREATHING, and CIRCULATION are usually considered to be this type of function.
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What is MENTAL FOCUS?
In addition to affecting how we look and how we feel, sleep plays a vital role in this also.
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What are SIMPLE CARBS?
These carbohydrates have a simple molecular structure, which is why we call them this....
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What is the non-profit, non-governmental group established by the U.S. Academy of Science?
RDAs (Recommended Dietary Allowances) suggest the amount of calories and vitamins that we should have each day. Which agency determines these?
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What are ANTIBIOTICS?
These commonly prescribed medicines have a serious downside: they kill off our probiotics along with the bad bacteria.
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What is the LYMPHATIC SYSTEM?
The expanding and contracting of muscles during exercising serves an important function of boosting our immune power by affecting this body system.
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What is the REGULATION of HORMONES that GOVERN APPETITE?
Surprisingly, sleep can also help us have a healthy weight because of this function that occurs during sleep.
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What are PHYTONUTRIENTS?
These natural chemicals found in plants are the newest frontier in Nutrition Science.
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What is BERIBERI
This was the disease that the people of India suffered from when they stopped eating brown rice and ate only refined, white rice.
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What is GUT FLORA?
This other name for probiotics comes from the fact that these amazing bacteria live in our digestive system and have plant-like properties.
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What is BIOFEEDBACK?
We can learn to de-stress our bodies by affecting our automatic bodily functions using this technique of monitoring those body functions.
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What are PARASOMNIAS?
This is another name for sleep disorders such as night terrors, insomnia, sleep walking, etc.
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