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BIOD 121 - Essentials in Nutrition Module 1 Study GuideQuestions 2023
What is nutrition: - Correct Answers ✅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: - Correct Answers ✅it impacts the time
of birth to the time of death
How do pharmaceuticals and the food industry play into nutrition: - Correct
Answers ✅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: - Correct Answers
✅health and disease
Good nutrition as well as exercise leads to: - Correct Answers ✅good health
Media plays a huge role into nutrition as far as: - Correct Answers
✅marketing, fad diets, celebrities, etc.
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Nutrients can be classified as: - Correct Answers ✅macro-nutrient, micro-
nutrient, organic, and inorganic
Macro-nutrient: - Correct Answers ✅needed in large amounts in the body
Micro-nutrients: - Correct Answers ✅needed in small amounts in the body
Organic: - Correct Answers ✅a compound that contains carbon and
hydrogen
Inorganic: - Correct Answers ✅any substance that doesn't contain carbon
Mechanical energy: - Correct Answers ✅perform muscular movements
What are hormones: - Correct Answers ✅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
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Ghrelin: - Correct Answers ✅is produced by the stomach; its job is to travel
to the brain,stimulate the hunger center, and deactivate the satiety center
Leptin: - Correct Answers ✅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: - Correct Answers ✅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: - Correct
Answers ✅ghrelin and leptin
Name the key hormone that causes satiety. Indicate where in the body its
produced and the process by which it operates: - Correct Answers ✅leptin;
its produced by fat cells; its job is to alert the brain, turn off the hunger
center, and activate satiety center
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