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Nutrition Ch. 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alcohol does what to fat? | slows down the body's use of fat for fuel |
| excess carb can lead to? | obesity |
| excess protein can lead to? | obesity |
| What is 2/3 of the body's total energy used for? | processes when your sleeping |
| What is used first during starvation? | glycogen |
| the NS consumes how much glucose? | a little more than half of the total glucose used each day |
| What are the hazards of fasting? | wasting of lean tissue, impairment of disease resistance, low body temp, disturbance in F |
| What fasting what adaptations does the body make? | increase the breakdown of fat to provide energy, using glycerol and amino acid to make glucose for RBC and CNS, and producing ketones to fuel the brain, and slowing metabolism |
| What is "energy in"? | food and beverages |
| What are the 2 ways the body expends energy? | to fuel is basal metabolism and to fuel its voluntary activities |
| What does basal metabolism support? | the body's work that goes on all the time without a person's conscious awareness |
| What is basal metabolic rate? | the rate of energy use for metabolism under specified conditions: after a 12 hour fast and restful sleep, without any physical activity or emotional excitement, and in a comfortable setting |
| What is resting metabolic rate? | measure of the energy use of a person at rest in a comfortable setting, similar to the BMR but with less stringent criteria for recet food intake and physical activity |
| What is thermic effect of food? | an estimation of the energy required to process food |
| What is obesity? | overweight with adverse health effects |
| What is BMI? | an index of a person's weight in relation to height; determinded by dividing the weight by the square of the height |
| What is underweight? | body weight below some standard of acceptable weight that is usually defined in relation to height |
| What is overweight? | body weight above some standard of acceptalbe weight that is usually defined in relation to height |
| What is visceral fat? | fat stored within the abdominal cavity in association with the internal abdominal organs |
| What in central obesity? | excess fat around the trunk of the body |
| What is adipokines? | protein hormones made and released by adipose tissue |
| What is inflammation? | an immunological response to cellular injury characterized by an increase in WBC |
| What is subcutaneous fat? | fat stored directly under the skin |
| What is waist circumfrance? | a measurment used to assess a person ab fat |
| What is skinfold measure? | a clinical estimate of total body fatness in which the thickness of a fold of skin on the back of the arm, below shoulder blade |
| health risks increase with a BMI? | above 24.9 or below 18.5 |
| Obesity also incurs? | social, economic and psychological risks |
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