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Edema: Swelling
caused by fluid retention in the tissues of the body
EKG or ECG Electrocardiogram:
a recording of the heart's electrical activity using
sensors attached to the limbs and chest.
Electrolytes:
Minerals such as sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium
that act to keep your nerves firing and muscles moving.
Electrocardiograph
(ECG): the recording of the electrical activity of
the heart.
Endocrine Glands:
glands that produce chemicals (hormones) which affect other
body cells.
Endorphins:
A group of proteins produced naturally by the body with potent
analgesic properties (similar to morphine). These are the
brain chemicals that contribute to the "runner's high" or
good feelings during and after exercise
Enrichment:
The addition of a nutrient to a processed food to replace
losses of the nutrient that occurred during processing or
to enhance its nutritive composition
Enzyme: special
type of protein. Enzymes help the body's chemistry work better
and more quickly.
Epinephrine:
one of the secretions of the adrenal glands. It helps the
liver release glucose (sugar) and limit the release of insulin.
It also makes the heart beat faster and can raise blood pressure;
also called adrenalin.
Essential Amino Acids:Essential
Amino Acids are amino acids that your body does not have the
ability to synthesize. Hundreds of different amino acids exist
in nature, and about two dozen of them are important to human
nutrition. Nine of these – histidine, isoleucine, leucine,
lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, theronine, tryptophan,
and valine – are considered essential, since they must
be supplied by your diet.
Essential Fatty Acids:Fatty
acids that the body is unable to produce on its own, but which
are necessary for the proper functioning of cells. EFAs must
be provided through the diet. Rich sources of EFAs include
fish, nuts, seeds, evening primrose oil, and borage seed oil.
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Essential Nutrient:A
nutrient that must be supplied by the diet because it cannot
be produced in sufficient quantities by the body.
Exchanges:
A grouping of foods by type to help people on special diets
stay on the diet. Each group lists food in serving sizes.
A person can exchange, trade, or substitute a food serving
in one group for another food serving in the same group. The
lists put foods in six groups: (1) starch/bread, (2) meat,
(3)vegetables, (4) fruit, (5) milk, and (6) fats. Within a
food group, each serving has about the same amount of carbohydrate,
protein, fat, and calories.
Exchange Diet:An
exchange diet is a meal plan with a set number of servings
from each of several food groups. Within each group, foods
are about equal in calories and can be interchanged as you
wish.
Exchange Lists:A
grouping of foods by type to help people on special diets
stay on the diet. Each group lists food in serving sizes.
A person can exchange, trade, or substitute a food serving
in one group for another food serving in the same group. The
lists put foods in six groups: starch/bread meat vegetables
fruit milk fats Within a food group, each serving has about
the same amount of carbohydrate, protein, fat, and calories.
Exchange Plan:
A strategy of mapping out what you will eat for each meal
based on exchanges, not specific foods.
Exercise:Activity
done for the purpose of keeping fit and healthy, or sociable
in a group form like football.
Exertional Headaches:
Pain triggered by a variety of exercise activities
ranging from weightlifting to jogging, and including sexual
intercourse
External Obliques:
Muscles running diagonally downward and inward from
the lower ribs to the pelvis that allow you to bend forward
and twist at the waist. These lie on top of the internal obliques.
The kayaking stroke uses these muscles much more than the
arms.
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