Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates are an energy-producing nutrient that provides this many calories per gram.
What is four calorie per gram.
Fats are an energy-producing nutrient that provides this many calories per gram.
What is nine calories per gram?
These nutrients serve as the body's building blocks, supporting growth and repair of tissues.
What are proteins?
This process in the gastrointestinal system relies on coordinated muscles and nerves to move and break down food physically.
What is mechanical digestion?
This type of study, considered highly reputable, prevents both researchers and participants from knowing who receives the treatment and often includes switching groups midway to reduce bias.
What is a double-blind crossover experiment?
This form of carbohydrate storage is how the body stores glucose in the liver and muscles.
What is Glycogen
This man-made chemical was designed to mimic fat and is known as a “fake fat” used in some snack foods.
What is olestra?
The primary function of proteins is this essential role in the body, helping to maintain and restore tissues.
What is growth and repair?
This system processes food throughout the body, and its work begins in the mouth with chewing and saliva.
What is the gastrointestinal tract?
These types of public recommendations guide healthy eating and disease prevention and include sources such as the DRIs, Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the American Heart Association, and the American Cancer Society.
What are public health nutrition recommendations?
This acronym represents the recommended range of intake for carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
What is the Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Range?
A cheese product contains 27% fat. How would this food be classified?
What is a moderate-fat food?
This term refers to the body’s physiological feedback mechanisms that signal the end of eating and help stop food intake.
What is satiety?
These are live, health-promoting bacterial cultures often found in foods like yogurt and fermented products.
What are probiotics?
These nutrients must be consumed through the diet because the body cannot produce them on its own.
What are essential nutrients?
This artificial sweetener has been controversial because extremely large doses caused cancer in rats, though the same effect has not been shown in humans.
What is saccharin?
This type—considered the “good” cholesterol—typically makes up about 17.5% of total serum cholesterol.
What is HDL?
This process involves combining different plant proteins so that together they provide all essential amino acids.
What is complementation?
Microbial growth can occur after exposure to microbes from these common sources, including air, water, food, feces, soil, or person-to-person interactions.
What are sources of microbial contamination?
This substance is made inside the human body—primarily in the liver from saturated fatty acids—and also serves as a precursor for vitamin D.
What is cholesterol?
Carbohydrates are the body’s high-performance fuel and the fastest at producing energy. ATP is the molecule they help generate. What does ATP stand for?
What is adenosine triphosphate?
Although obesity is largely caused by overeating and physical inactivity, this percentage of U.S. adults are currently classified as obese according to national health statistics.
What is about 42%?
Proteins can be grouped into these two major types based on their shape—one long and strand-like, the other compact and spherical.
What are fibrous and globular proteins?
Glucose and amino acids can move across cell membranes against their concentration gradient, requiring a selective transport protein and energy from ATP. This type of movement is known as what?
What is active transport?
When energy intake equals the body’s energy needs, this state is achieved, resulting in stable weight and effective weight management.
What is energy balance?