Chapter Seven: Energy (Key Terms and Practice Questions) Flashcards
What internal signals stimulate a person to acquire and consume food?
Hunger
What is the EER?
Estimated Energy Requirements, the amount of energy recommended by the DRIs to maintain body weight in a healthy person based on age, size, gender, and activity level.
What is Skinfold Thickness?
A measurement of subcutaneous fat used to estimate total body fat.
What is the Thermic Effect of Food (TEF) or diet-induced thermogenesis?
The energy required for the digestion of food and the absorption, metabolism, and storage of nutrients. It is equal to approximately 10% of daily energy intake.
What is Comorbidity?
When two disease states of health conditions occur together (e.g. obesity and type two diabetes).
What is the BMR?
Basal metabolic rate, the rate of energy expenditure under resting conditions. BMR measurements are performed in a warm room in the morning before the subject rises, and and at least 12 hours after the last food or activity.
What is BEE?
Basal energy expenditure, the energy expended to maintain an awake resting body that is not digesting food.
What is Adaptive Thermogenesis?
The change in energy expenditure induced by factors such as changes in ambient temperature and food intake.
What is PA value?
Physical activity value, a numeric value associated with activity level that is a variable in the EER equations used to calculate energy needs.
What is energy balance?
The amount of energy consumed in the diet compared with the amount expended by the body over a given period.
What is weight cycling/yoyo dieting?
The repeated loss and regain of body weight.
What is ghrelin?
A hormone produced by the stomach the stimulates food intake.
What is gastric bypass surgery?
A surgical procedure to treat morbid obesity that both reduces the size of the stomach and bypasses a portion of the small intestine.
What is indirect calorimetry?
A method of estimating energy use that compares the amount of oxygen consumed to the amount of carbon dioxide exhaled.
What is gastric banding?
A surgical procedure in which an adjustable band is placed around the upper portion of the stomach to limit the volume that the stomach can hold and the rate of the stomach emptying.
What is behaviour modification?
A process used to gradually and permanently change habitual behaviours.
What is bioelectric impedance analysis?
A technique for estimating body composition that measures body fat by directing a low energy electric current through the body and calculating resistance to flow.