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Personal Health Test #2 Flashcards

1
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To be healthy people must obtain…

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approximately 40 essential nutrients in the proper amounts and proportions from food.

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2
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What are the 7 components of food ?

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Carbohydrates
Lipids
Minerals
Protein
Phytochemicals
Water

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3
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What are the major influences on food consumption patterns?

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Marketing and Advertising

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4
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What are the 4 influences on dietary choices?

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Family
Ethnic
Religious Heritage
Cultural eating patterns
Social Factors

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5
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Ingredient labels list all the chemical constituents of food in descending order by weight .

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6
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Nutrition Fact labels provide quantitive information on …

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Certain nutrients
Calorie content
Natural
Artificial thickeners

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7
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A decency of only one nutrient can impair…

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The body’s ability to use all other nutrients even if they are present in sufficient amounts.

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Recommended daily dietary allowances (RDA’S) ….

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outlines the nutrient requirements of most Americans.

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9
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What are nutrients absorbed by?

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Nutrients are absorbed from the intestines into the blood.

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10
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What are the important proteins?

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Enzymes
Antibodies
Hemoglobin
Other Hormones

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11
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What is the principal source of body’s energy?

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Carbohydrates

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12
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Simple sugars , a class of carbohydrates are called …

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Monosaccharides

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13
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What decreases the time material and spends in the gastrointestinal tract….

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Fiber

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14
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A fat like compound that occurs in bile , blood, brain and nerve tissue , liver and other parts of the body….

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Cholesterol

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15
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What includes both monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats and is dervied from plants?

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Unsaturated fats

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16
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What are substances that can inhibit the oxidation of free radicals ?

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antioxidants ( Vitamins A,C,E)

17
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What does undercooking meat cause?

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Food Borne Illnesses

18
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What BMI represents good health ?

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19 to 25 and this compares to lean body mass and body fat .

19
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What’s another health related index of body size ….

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waist-to-hip ratio

20
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How do you find out the waist to hip ratio ?

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Calculated by dividing the circumference of the waist by the circumference of the hips.

21
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Energy storage is maintained in a region of the hypothalamus of the brain is called the

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appestat

22
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Improved nutrition , regular exercise and a desire to feel good and are different ways ….

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People lose a considerable amount of weight and maintain a healthful weight for many years.

23
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Healthy weight is maintained by :

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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

24
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A person’s mental picture of her own body …

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Body image

25
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Characteristics of Anorexia Nervosa

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Occurence usually in young women

An overprotective family unable to deal with interfamilial conflict

Disturbances in body image

Preoccupation with food

High energy state bordering on hyperactivity

Feelings of powerlessness

26
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The voluntary restriction of food in take followed by extreme operating and self induced vomiting of use of laxatives….

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Bulimia

27
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Strength Training

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involves repetitvely moving muscles against resistance to strengthen them

28
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Strength training can aid in sports performance

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29
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Some athletes turn to drugs called

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ergogenic aids

30
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Ergogenic aids can…

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increase strength and endurance , enhance athletic performance , increase size of muscles

31
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A natural substance in muscle tissue required for muscle contraction purchased as a nutritional supplement to help temporarily increase muscle size …

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Creatine

32
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This is a safe because it is fast acting and excretes quickly . It is used for strength training but you must follow the directions…

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Whey Protein

33
Q

What leads to hyperthermia ?

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Overexposure to cold , windy, and wet weather

34
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Stages and characterizations

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Comes with weakness , nausea , dizziness , lie down and elevate the legs 12-18 inches , drink , water , wet clothes , get in a cool shaded area.

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