Diabetes And Massage

Question 1

The highly regulated processes through which nutrients are broken down, transformed, and otherwise converted into cellular energy to sustain the processes of life and health.

Answer 1

Metabolism

Question 2

What are useable energy units of the digestive system?

Answer 2

Proteins into amino acids

Carbohydrates into glucose

Oils and fats into fatty acids

Question 3

Which usable energy units are the key components of enzymes, essential tissue building blocks, and important in transport of nutrients, and hormones, etc.?

Answer 3

Amino acids

Question 4

Which useable energy unit is the body’s primal fuel?

Answer 4

Glucose

Question 5

Which useable energy unit can be used as an alternative energy source if the body is low on glucose/it’s the body’s long-term energy storage form?

Answer 5

Fatty acids (or adipose it’s already been converted)

Question 6

Which energy unit is important for building cell membranes and organelles as well as molecules such as hormones, ketone bodies and triglycerides?

Answer 6

Fatty acids

Question 7

Built from fats and carbohydrates, The major form of fat storage.

Answer 7

Triglycerides

Question 8

Hypertriglyceridemia

Answer 8

Excess volume of triglycerides in the blood.

*linked to coronary disease

Question 9

Responsibilities of the circulatory system (3)

Answer 9

Delivery of OXYGEN to cells

Transports NUTRIENTS from GI to tissues

Transports WASTE to organs of organs of elimination

Question 10

Responsibilities of the liver (7)

Answer 10

Produces BILE

Regulates GLUCOSE
⭐️builds, breaks down, converts into storage form

Stores VITAMINS and MINERALS

synthesizes proteins for use in the body

Builds and breaks down fat stores

Metabolizes hormones and drugs

Converts fatty acids into KETONES

Question 11

Fatty acids converted in the liver to keep the heart, brain and muscles fuelled are _______

Answer 11

Ketones

Question 12

Ketone build-up in the blood

Answer 12

Ketoacidosis

Ketones are acidic and can be life threatening if not processed and are built up

Question 13

Which is the preferred cellular fuel source that is utilized and less complex and most efficient, and involves the fewest potentially detrimental by products?

Answer 13

Glucose

Question 14

Part of the endocrine system, a large gland that plays a major role in digestion and glucose dynamics

Answer 14

The pancreas

Question 15

Chyme

Answer 15

Neutralized by the pancreas, chyme is a thick semi fluid mass of partly digested food that passed from the stomach to the duodenum

Question 16

Blood glucose regulation cells and their release of hormones synthesized by the pancreas produced in the ISLETS OF LANGERHANDS (3)

Answer 16

ALPHA CELLS release GLUCAGON

BETA CELLS release INSULIN

DELTA CELLS release SOMATOSTATIN

Question 17

Which hormone creates a “well fed” state in the body?

Answer 17

INSULIN allows the body to get the energy it needs from food to create this state.

Question 18

Release of insulin into the bloodstream is a response to:

Answer 18

GI enzyme levels

High glucose