Navigating Diets Flashcards
How is a low-energy diet defined?
Low-energy diets (LED) are those that contain a low amount of total calories. Typically, low-energy diets will be of about 800 to 1,200 kilocalories per day (kcal/d).
Which diet describes eating 800-1200 calories per day?
low energy diet
How is a very low-energy diet defined?
Less than 800 kcal/day
Which diet describes eating less than or equal to 800 calories per day?
very low energy diet VLED
What defines a very low-fat diet?
Less than 20% of total calories coming from fat
What are some of the positive impacts of dietary fat?
Humans cannot make essential fatty acids, so they must be obtained via the diet.
Fat allows us to absorb fat-soluble vitamins: A, D, E, and K.
Cell walls contain fat.
Fats are involved in hormone production.
Helps avoid problems with low-fat diets
What defines a low-carb diet?
Less than 40% of total daily calories coming from carbs.
A study where participants are kept in a ward where they can be closely monitored at all times – this allows for precise measurements of metrics like energy expenditure or precise recording of food intake. These studies are extremely high-quality, well-controlled studies.
metabolic ward study
This describes energy production systems/pathways in the body in which oxygen is not present. Activity that leads to energy production via the anaerobic system will cause an accumulation in hydrogen ions and lactic acid.
anaerobic system
A metabolic state where the liver is producing ketones (or ketone bodies) from fatty acids – there are three ketones produced in the human body: acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutyrate, and acetone. These ketones are an alternative fuel (substrate) that the body can use during the time of low glucose availability brought on by starvation, very low-calorie intake, and/or carbohydrate restriction (or in clinical disorders).
ketosis
What are the three ketones produced by the body?
acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutyrate, and acetone.
What is acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutyrate, and aceton?
Ketones
_______ occurs in response to a lack of incoming energy (insufficient caloric consumption).
starvation ketosis
_______ can be achieved without extremely low-caloric intake through the restriction of carbohydrates, although this can still occur within the context of a calorie deficit.
nutritional ketosis
A hormone that stimulates appetite and creates a drive for food intake.
ghrelin
The amount of energy (calories) expended to digest and metabolize food.
thermic effect of feeding (TEF)
What are three benefits of a high-protein diet?
increased TEF, satiety, and fat-free mass
The edible seeds of plants from the legume family that include dry beans, dry peas, cow peas, pigeon peas, lupins, lentils, fava beans, and chickpeas.
pulses
Requires carbohydrates to be restricted to less than 50g per day (or 5% of total calories), protein intake to be moderate (20-30% of calories) and the remaining calories made up from dietary fat (usually 65-75% of calories).
ketogenic diet
A diet typically defined as one containing more than 25% of total calories from protein or above 1.2 grams of protein per kilogram of bodyweight (g/kg), or 0.54 g/lb.
high-protein diet