Health Sciences

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• Food taboos

  Abstaining from food and/or beverage consumption due to religious and cultural reasons
• Food preferences

  The evaluative attitudes that people express toward foods
• Food beliefs

  Individual and societal ideals about food
• Hunger

  Physiological need to eat, experienced as a drive for obtaining food; an unpleasant sensation that demands relief
• Lifestyle

  The way in which a person lives
• Motivation

  A reason or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way
• Perception

  The way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted
• Satiation

  The perception of fullness that builds throughout a meal, eventually reaching the degree of fullness and satisfaction that halts eating
• Satiety

  The perception of fullness that lingers after a meal and inhibits eating until the next mealtime
• Diabetes

  Metabolic diseases characterized by elevated blood glucose and inadequate or ineffective insulin, which impair a person’s ability to regulate blood glucose.
• Added sugars

  Sugars and syrups added to food for any purpose such as sweetness, bulk, or browning.
• Amputation

  The surgical removal of a limb.
• Autoimmune disorder

  A disease in which the body develops antibodies to its own proteins and destroys its own cells.
• Blood glucose

  The main sugar found in your blood.
• Brown sugar

  White sugar with molasses added.
• Carbohydrate-counting

  A meal-planning method that keeps total carbohydrate intake consistent.
• Carbohydrates

  Compounds composed of single or multiple sugars.
• Certified Diabetes Educator

  A health-care professional specializing in diabetes education.
• Concentrated fruit juice sweetener

  Concentrated sugar syrup made from fruit juice.
• Corn syrup

  A syrup mostly made of glucose.
• Dextrose

  A form of glucose.
• Diabetic coma

  A life-threatening emergency caused by very high or low blood sugar.
• Diabetic ketoacidosis

  A build-up of ketones causing acidosis.
• Ketone

  Molecule made in the liver that can be used for energy.
• Dialysis

  Treatment of the blood to remove toxic substances.