Personal Health Test #2 Flashcards
To be healthy people must obtain…
approximately 40 essential nutrients in the proper amounts and proportions from food.
What are the 7 components of food ?
Carbohydrates
Lipids
Minerals
Protein
Phytochemicals
Water
What are the major influences on food consumption patterns?
Marketing and Advertising
What are the 4 influences on dietary choices?
Family
Ethnic
Religious Heritage
Cultural eating patterns
Social Factors
Ingredient labels list all the chemical constituents of food in descending order by weight .
Nutrition Fact labels provide quantitive information on …
Certain nutrients
Calorie content
Natural
Artificial thickeners
A decency of only one nutrient can impair…
The body’s ability to use all other nutrients even if they are present in sufficient amounts.
Recommended daily dietary allowances (RDA’S) ….
outlines the nutrient requirements of most Americans.
What are nutrients absorbed by?
Nutrients are absorbed from the intestines into the blood.
What are the important proteins?
Enzymes
Antibodies
Hemoglobin
Other Hormones
What is the principal source of body’s energy?
Carbohydrates
Simple sugars , a class of carbohydrates are called …
Monosaccharides
What decreases the time material and spends in the gastrointestinal tract….
Fiber
A fat like compound that occurs in bile , blood, brain and nerve tissue , liver and other parts of the body….
Cholesterol
What includes both monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats and is dervied from plants?
Unsaturated fats
What are substances that can inhibit the oxidation of free radicals ?
antioxidants ( Vitamins A,C,E)
What does undercooking meat cause?
Food Borne Illnesses
What BMI represents good health ?
19 to 25 and this compares to lean body mass and body fat .
What’s another health related index of body size ….
waist-to-hip ratio
How do you find out the waist to hip ratio ?
Calculated by dividing the circumference of the waist by the circumference of the hips.
Energy storage is maintained in a region of the hypothalamus of the brain is called the
appestat
Improved nutrition , regular exercise and a desire to feel good and are different ways ….
People lose a considerable amount of weight and maintain a healthful weight for many years.
Healthy weight is maintained by :
Eating only when hungry
Eating low on the food
pyramid
Exercising
Consuming little or no alcohol
Being aware of eating triggers
Refusing to feed your feelings of stress, anxiety and, lonelinesss,boredom and anger
A person’s mental picture of her own body …
Body image
