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Chemical substances in foods used by the body for growth and health.
What are nutrients?
This substance is associated with atherosclerosis.
What is LDL?
What is the parent group of Omega 6 Fatty Acids?
What is linolenic acid?
The condition is associated with hyperventilation.
What is Emphysema?
The most common cause of left-sided heart failure
What is ischemic heart disease?
Cause by atherosclerosis.
Diets rich in this amino acid have been shown to increase serotonin production, enhance mood, and promote neuroplasticity in the hippocampus.
What is tryptophan?
This dementia can often be seen in people as young as 45 years of age.
What is Frontotemporal lobe dementia?
Food that contains relatively high amounts of nutrients compared to their caloric value.
What is Nutrient-dense foods?
What is the first decade?
The recommended level of sodium for the DASH diet.
What is < 1500 mg Na++/Day
The form of dietary intervention utilizing a Registered Dietitian for dealing with chronic conditions such as heart failure.
An increased pulmonary blood pressure results in this type of heart failure.
What is Right-Sided Heart Failure?
Increased dietary intake of this amino acid may boost dopamine production, improving cognitive flexibility and enhancing neuroplasticity.
What is Tyrosine?
The type of dementia is associated with hallucinations that are not disturbing to the individual.
What if lewy-body dementia?
Flavonoids, chlorophyll, and carotenoids are examples of these.
What are phytochemicals?
These cells form what are referred to as foam cells.
What are dead macrophages?
The three pillars of food insecurity
What is Access, Use of Food, and Availability?
A form of COPD associated with cyanosis from “hypoxia,” bloating from edema, AND an increase in lung volume.
What is Chronic Bronchitis
Left diastolic heart failure is associated with this type of dysfunction.
What is a filling dysfunction?
Caused by prolonged hypertension leading to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
It often includes symptoms like weight gain or increased appetite, oversleeping, heavy feeling limbs, also known as lead paralysis and rejection, sensitivity, and essentially feeling anxiety at the slightest evidence of rejection.
What is Atypical Depression
This form of dementia is associated with Parkinsonism in about 80% of the cases.
What is Lewy-body dementia?
This substance in your blood maintains the fluid balance between your blood and the surrounding tissues.
What is Protein?
Considered the key indicator regarding diet-related disparities.
What is socioeconomic status?
Often seen in aging is muscle loss or wasting.
What is sarcopenia
Refers to the lungs taking on a liver-like appearance from the reddish-brown color of the exudate.
What is hepatization?
It shows that loading up the ventricle with blood during diastole and stretching out the cardiac muscle makes it contract with more force, increasing stroke volume during systole.
What is the Frank-Starling mechanism?
Regular consumption of fish rich in Omega-3s has been shown to boost this protein levels, improving cognitive function and protecting against depression.
What is Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor?
The type of dementia seen with step-wise decline.
What is vascular dementia?
Resveratrol is an example of this group of substances that are abundant in plants and can have a wide range of effects on the body, including antioxidants that reduce the effects of oxidative stress, which causes inflammation.
What are polyphenols?
The absence of archetypal diseases and functional impairments associated with old age.
What is Healthspan?
A condition brought about by insufficient intake of nutrients to meet biological requirements.
What is malnutrition?
This stage of Lobar pneumonia that happens around day eight and can continue for three weeks.
What is resolution?
In the lung these are referred to as heart failure cells.
What are called hemosiderin-laden macrophages?
This is when a person experiences similar lows and has additional highs called hypomania
What is Bipolar II?
The 4 A's of Alzheirmer's Disease
What are Apraxia, Agnosia, Aphasia, and Amnesia?