NUTR 251 CHAPTER 10: energy balance, weight
control, and eating disorders
- exercise regularly
- watch caloric intake - ✔✔select the best strategies to use when maintaining weight
- physical activity
- basal metabolism
- the digestion and absorption of consumed nutrients - ✔✔the three main reasons the body uses
energy, is to support __________
decrease - ✔✔during a time of famine and starvation a person's basal metabolic rate will _______
- climbing stairs
- walking to the store
- standing in the bus - ✔✔ways to increase energy expenditure include which of the following?
thermic - ✔✔the _______ effect of food (TEF) is the energy the body uses to digest, absorb,
%
transport, store, and metabolize the nutrients consumed in the diet. it accounts for about 5-10% of the
energy consumed each day
thermogenesis - ✔✔________ is the process of heat production by humans
hunger and appetite - ✔✔what are the two factors that greatly contributes to our drive to eat?
satiety - ✔✔fullfilling a drive to eat relevant to appetite or hunger normally brings about a feeling of
_______
are not - ✔✔the agreed upon standards for BMI ______ deemed appropriate for lactating women
underwater - ✔✔_________ weighing is a body fat measurement technique that determines body
volume by measuring body weight when underwater and body weight in air and entering these values
into a formula that accounts for differences in density between fat tissue and lean tissue
air displacement - ✔✔which body volume measurement technique determines body fat by
measuring the amount of space a person takes up inside a small chamber like a BodPod
, skinfold - ✔✔_______ thickness is a common method used to estimate total body fat content by
using calipers to measure the fat layer directly under the skin at multiple sites
bioelectrical impedance - ✔✔select the body fat measurement technique that sends painless, low
energy electrical currents throughout the body and uses electrical resistance to identify adipose tissue
dual energy x ray absorptiometry - ✔✔which method of measuring body fat is considered to be the
most accurate?
upper - ✔✔_______ body obesity is more often related to cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and
type 2 diabetes
- body type
- metabolic rate
- factors that influence hunger and satiety - ✔✔genes can influence body weight by determining
__________
set point - ✔✔______ ________ theory proposes that humans have a genetically predetermined
body weight or body fat content which the body closely regulates
even thought the gene pool has not changed much, the rate of obesity has risen in the past 50 years -
%
✔✔which of the following scenarios supports the argument that the environment plays a large role in
weight gain?
- fat storage
- obesity - ✔✔aging, female gender, sedentary lifestyle, and a high calorie diet are some factors that
contribute to _________
- promotes reasonable changes
- includes plans for relapse
- focuses on maintaining on a healthy lifestyle - ✔✔which components of a sound weight loss diet
relate to behavior modification?
- control of problem behaviors
- regular physical activity
- control of energy intake - ✔✔what are components of a sound weight loss program?
increases - ✔✔accepting that the changes involved in a weight loss routine must be maintained for a
lifetime _______ the likelihood that weight will not be regained
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