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BIOD 121 Module 4 Exam complete practice questions and answers Portage Learning Lack of this vitamin can lead to rickets in children and osteoporosis in adults Fat soluble vitamins have all the following characteristics except

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Digestion process of transforming food into basic nutrients that can be absorbed and used by the body Without the process, the nutrients we initially consume in food would be useless: digestion Before food even enters the mouth, a cascade of events involving the nervous system and a variety of hormones are set off based on a variety of stimulus: cognition, sound, odor, appearance, and taste

which person is at a greater risk for health issues related to being overweight or obese? Janet has a BMI of 28 and a waist to hip ratio of 0.95. Fred has a BMI of 28.9 and a waist to hip ratio of 0.78. Janet. Both have a BMI that indicates being overweight, but Janet has a more at-risk waist to hip ratio as her value is greater than 0.8. (Women should have a waist to hip ration less than 0.8 and males should have less than 0.9.) What range of BMI values represents a person with a healthy w...

Energy balance a state when one's energy intake is equivalent to the amount of energy expended Energy in equals energy out (calories consumed is burned through basic body functions + exercise energy balance positive energy balance occurs if more calories (energy) are consumed than expended examples of periods in life when you need to be in a positive energy balance state: pregnancy, childhood, and adolescence in growth spurts

Vitamins Organic compounds required in small amounts that regulate and support body processes Essential vitamins Found in both plant and animal sources, and the majority cannot be synthesized. Enrichment Adding lost nutrients, from milling and processing, back into the final product. Fortification Supplementing a product with additional vitamins not normally found in the product

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 foo...

essential vitamins 13 vitamins that animal cells need but can't synthesize found in both plant and animal sources vitamins produced by the body vitamin K and biotin (gut flora) vitamin D (skin) vitamin A (from beta carotene) niacin (tryptophan) two criteria for vitamins 1. must be consumed in the diet to maintain health. 2. symptoms of deficiency occur in its absence enrichment adding nutrients back that have been lost to processing fortification adding nutrient not naturally present i...

positive energy balance more calories consumed than expended negative energy balance fewer calories consumed than expended hyperplasia increase in number of cells (e.g., fat cells in childhood, pregnancy)

Healthy pregnancy adequate intake of vitamins and minerals healthy body weight controlling existing health conditions avoidance of teratogens Teratogens compounds that can increase the risk of a birth defect caffeine, drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. Tobacco: miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm delivery, and low birth weight infants alcohol: FAS, physical and mental disabilities and growth retardation drugs: low birth weight, preterm delivery, miscarriage, birth defects, and infant addiction. ...

What is nutrition? Nutrition by definition is the science that links foods to health and disease. When is nutrition important? from conception to death When considering one's health, five dimensions can be evaluated: physical health, intellectual health, emotional health, social health, and spiritual health. physical health - body's ability to perform daily functions for survival intellectual health - the cognitive ability to learn and adapt emotional health - the ability to express or s...