Appetite regulation

Question 1

What is a calorie?

Answer 1

The amount of energy required to raise a gram of water from 14.5 degrees to 15.5 degrees

Question 2

What is the resting metabolic rate?

Answer 2

The amount of calories to keep you alive when youre not doing anything

Question 3

What characteristic does resting metabolic rate correlate with?

Answer 3

size/mass

Question 4

What is the thermic effect of feeding?

Answer 4

Calories the body spends processing ingesting food

Question 5

What is physical activity expenditure?

Answer 5

Any energy used to do something that isnt keeping you alive/ingesting food

Question 6

Which component of energy expenditure is the most susceptible to change?

Answer 6

Physical activity energy expenditure

Question 7

What is the definition of nutrients?

Answer 7

Any chemical substance that the body needs to use for life

Question 8

What is the respiratory quotient of proteins?

Answer 8

0.8

Question 9

How many calories are there in a gram of protein?

Answer 9

5.6

Question 10

What are carbohydrates broken down into?

Answer 10

Sugars

Question 11

What are sugars converted to?

Answer 11

Glycogen

Question 12

What is the respiratory quotient of carbohydrates?

Answer 12

1.0

Question 13

How many calories are there in a gram of carbohydrate?

Answer 13

4

Question 14

What are fats broken down into?

Answer 14

Triglycerides

Question 15

What are triglycerides broken down into?

Answer 15

FAs

Question 16

How many calories are there in a gram of fat?

Answer 16

9

Question 17

What is the respiratory quotient of fats?

Answer 17

0.7

Question 18

How many calories are in a gram of alcohol?

Answer 18

7

Question 19

What is de novo lipogenesis?

Answer 19

Conversion of sugars to fatty acids

Question 20

What is the path of food in gastric digestion?

Answer 20

Stomach–> pancreas–> duodenum-> large/small intestine

Question 21

What is ghrelin responsible for?

Answer 21

Fullness hormone-> increases appetite

Question 22

What effect does acetylation have on ghrelin?

Answer 22

Activates it

Question 23

What effect does deacetylation have on ghrelin?

Answer 23

Deactivates it

Question 24

How does the concentration of acetylated ghrelin vary throughout the day?

Answer 24

A lot

Question 25

How does the concentration of deacylated ghrelin vary throughout the day?

Answer 25

Not much

Question 26

What three hormones are in the pancreas?

Answer 26

Pancreatic polypeptide, Amylin, Insulin

Question 27

What are the three pancreatic hormones involved in?

Answer 27

Appetite regulation and nutrient sensing