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BIOD 121 - Essentials in Nutrition
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What is nutrition: Ans- nutrition by definition is a science that links food to health and disease. It
includes the processes that humans ingest, digest, absorb, transport, and excrete substances
Nutrition spands all ages in which: Ans- it ...
BIOD 121 - Essentials in Nutrition
Module 1 Rated A+
What is nutrition: Ans- nutrition by definition is a science that links food to health and disease. It
includes the processes that humans ingest, digest, absorb, transport, and excrete substances
Nutrition spands all ages in which: Ans- it impacts the time of birth to the time of death
How do pharmaceuticals and the food industry play into nutrition: Ans- through the different
supplements we take, what we eat and why we eat as far as food safety, mass production, restaurants,
manufacturers, media, and food labels
Nutrition by definition is the science that links food to: Ans- health and disease
Good nutrition as well as exercise leads to: Ans- good health
Media plays a huge role into nutrition as far as: Ans- marketing, fad diets, celebrities, etc.
Nutrients can be classified as: Ans- macro-nutrient, micro-nutrient, organic, and inorganic
Macro-nutrient: Ans- needed in large amounts in the body
Micro-nutrients: Ans- needed in small amounts in the body
Organic: Ans- a compound that contains carbon and hydrogen
Inorganic: Ans- any substance that doesn't contain carbon
, What are hormones: Ans- they are compounds that are secreted into the bloodstream by different cells,
and their goal is to act to control the function of another type of cell
Ghrelin: Ans- is produced by the stomach; its job is to travel to the brain,stimulate the hunger center,
and deactivate the satiety center
Leptin: Ans- is produced by fat cells called adipose tissue; its job is to alert the brain, turn off the hunger
center, and activate the satiety center' any time your eating your leptin levels should increase to tell you
that your full
Name the key hormone that causes hunger. Indicate where in the body its produced and the process by
which it operates: Ans- ghrelin; its produced by the stomach; its job is to travel the brain and stimulate
the hunger center and deactivate the satiety center
Two key hormones in the process of hunger and satiety are: Ans- ghrelin and leptin
Name the key hormone that causes satiety. Indicate where in the body its produced and the process by
which it operates: Ans- leptin; its produced by fat cells; its job is to alert the brain, turn off the hunger
center, and activate satiety center
There are different types of hormones related to hunger and satiety. Three major hormones for
increasing hunger are: Ans- ghrelin, endorphines, and neuropeptide Y
Anytime your eating, your leptin levels should: Ans- increase to tell you that your full
What are the five dimensions to evaluate health: Ans- physical health, intellectual health, emotional
health, social health. and spiritual health
What is physical health: Ans- the ability for the body to perform daily functions for survival and its
dependents on the nutrients that are available for the formation of bones, vitamins, minerals, and to
make hormones
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