Chapter 9 Nutrition

Question 1

What are micro nutrients?

Answer 1

Vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. These are non-energy, yielding nutrients that have improved regulatory functions and metabolic pathways.

Question 1

What are macro nutrients?

Answer 1

Food substances required in large amounts to supply energy; including protein, carbohydrates, and that

Question 2

What are minerals?

Answer 2

And organic, natural substances, some which are essential in human nutrition. There are two kind, major minerals, and trace minerals.

Question 3

What are amino acids?

Answer 3

Organic building blocks of proteins containing both a carboxyl and an amino group

Question 4

what are the two types of proteins and the difference between them?

Answer 4

Complete protein and incomplete protein

A complete protein provides all essential amino acids (i.e. meet, poetry, fish, eggs, and dairy, and hemp)

Incomplete protein is lacking one or more of the essential amino acids

Question 5

what is the difference between glycemic index and glycemic load?

Answer 5

Glycemic index has a number from 0 to 100 that represents the rise and blood sugar after consuming food

Glycemic load similar but takes amount of food into account

Question 6

What are Lipids and how many calories per gram?

Answer 6

Fats and their derivatives (trigylcerides, phospholipids, and sterols)

Question 7

liver redistributes, triglycerides as what?

Answer 7

lipoproteins

Question 8

What is LPL and what does it do?

Answer 8

Lipoprotein Lipase which is an enzyme that breaks down triglycerides into fatty acids