BIOD 121 - Essentials in Nutrition Module 1 exam

What is nutrition: - nutrition by definition is a science that links food to health and disease. It includes the processes that humans ingest, digest, absorb, transport, and excrete substances

Nutrition spands all ages in which: - it impacts the time of birth to the time of death

How do pharmaceuticals and the food industry play into nutrition: - through the different supplements we take, what we eat and why we eat as far as food safety, mass production, restaurants, manufacturers, media, and food labels

Nutrition by definition is the science that links food to: - health and disease

Good nutrition as well as exercise leads to: - good health

Media plays a huge role into nutrition as far as: - marketing, fad diets, celebrities, etc.

Nutrients can be classified as: - macro-nutrient, micro-nutrient, organic, and inorganic

Macro-nutrient: - needed in large amounts in the body

Micro-nutrients: - needed in small amounts in the body

Organic: - a compound that contains carbon and hydrogen

Inorganic: - any substance that doesn't contain carbon

Mechanical energy: - perform muscular movements

What are hormones: - they are compounds that are secreted into the bloodstream by different cells, and their goal is to act to control the function of another type of cell

Ghrelin: - is produced by the stomach; its job is to travel to the brain,stimulate the hunger center, and deactivate the satiety center

Leptin: - is produced by fat cells called adipose tissue; its job is to alert the brain, turn off the hunger center, and activate the satiety center' any time your eating your leptin levels should increase to tell you that your full

Name the key hormone that causes hunger. Indicate where in the body its produced and the process by which it operates: - ghrelin; its produced by the stomach; its job is to travel the brain and stimulate the hunger center and deactivate the satiety center

Two key hormones in the process of hunger and satiety are: - ghrelin and leptin

Name the key hormone that causes satiety. Indicate where in the body its produced and the process by which it operates: - leptin; its produced by fat cells; its job is to alert the brain, turn off the hunger center, and activate satiety center

There are different types of hormones related to hunger and satiety. Three major hormones for increasing hunger are: - ghrelin, endorphines, and neuropeptide Y

Anytime your eating, your leptin levels should: - increase to tell you that your full

What are the five dimensions to evaluate health: - physical health, intellectual health, emotional health, social health. and spiritual health

What is physical health: - the ability for the body to perform daily functions for survival and its dependents on the nutrients that are available for the formation of bones, vitamins, minerals, and to make hormones

What is intellectual health: - the cognitive ability to lean and adapt; the lack of certain nutrients can impair our intellectual health

What is emotional health: - the ability to express or suppress emotions

What is social health: - the ability to interact with others

What is spiritual health: - the purpose for human existence and cultural practices

The ability for the body to perform daily function for survival is what kind of health: - physical health

The cognitive ability to learn and adapt is called what kind of health: - intellectual health

The ability to suppress and express emotion is called what kind of health: - emotional health

The ability to interact with others is called what kind of health: - social health