The amount of protein (grams) found in most protein foods per ounce.
What is 7 grams of protein?
100
This type of reaction include the making of glycogen, triglycerides, and protein.
What is an anabolic reaction?
100
This occurs during the course of a meal, as food enters the GI tract and hunger diminishes
What is satiation?
100
The time period when the fat cells increase most rapidly
What is late childhood/early puberty?
100
Beriberi is associated with this vitamin
What is thiamin (or vitamin B1)?
200
Amino acids are composed of a central carbon with a hydrogen atom (H), an acid group (COOH), a side group (or side chain), and _____________.
What is an amino group (NH2)?
200
How many hours have to have passed when nutrients from a meal are no longer available to provide energy?
What is 2-3 hours after a meal?
200
This type of fat is stored around the hips and thighs
What is subcutaneous fat (lower-body fat)?
200
This enzyme plays a major role in the metabolism and transport of lipids, and is a participant in the development of obesity.
What is lipoprotein lipase (LPL)?
200
This vitamin is easily destroyed by ultraviolent light or irradiation
What is riboflavin (or Vitamin B2)
300
During digestion in the stomach this uncoils (denatures) proteins so the enzymes can attack the peptide bonds
What is hydrochloric acid?
300
The fatty acids of a triglyceride cannot make this
What is glucose?
300
The total energy a body expends reflects three main categories of thermogenesis, which are...
What is basal metabolism, physical activity, and food consumption?
300
This acts as a hormone, and maintains homeostasis by regulating food intake and energy expenditure in response to adipose tissue.
What is Leptin?
300
This vitamin is part of the coenzyme that forms acetyl CoA
What is pantothenic acid
400
A stretch of DNA is used as a template to make messenger RNA. Messenger RNA then carries the code across the nuclear membrane into the body of the cell, where it seeks out and attaches itself to one of the ______________.
What is a ribosome?
400
The name of the reaction that starts with one glucose molecule and ends with two molecules of pyruvate
What is glycolysis?
400
The waist circumferences (inches) for men and women, related to having a high risk of central obesity-related health problems are
What is over 35 inches for women and over 40 inches for men?
400
The energy density of 362 kcalories in a slice of pizza (142 g) is...
What is 2.5 kcal/g
400
Fortified bread contains 40 mg folate, which contribute how many grams of dietary folate equivalents when you add 100 mg folate from a dietary supplement?
What is 238 dietary folate equivalents (DFE)?
Calculation: 40 mg (fortified) + 100 mg (supplement) =140 mg x 1.7=238
500
Name the 9 essential amino acids
What is histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine
500
This may be converted to lactate anaerobically or to acetyl CoA aerobically
What is pyruvate?
500
The four classifications of BMI are....and the numbers associated with them are.....
What is <18.5 underweight, 18.5-24.9 normal, >25 overweight, >30 obese
500
Criteria for surgery in treating obesity are.....(name at least two)
What is a BMI >40 and inability to achieve adequate weight loss with diet and exercise? (or no medial or psychological conditions, or understanding of risks and strong motivation to comply with post-surgery treatment plan)
500
Upper limits are established for these vitamins
What is niacin, vitamin B6, folate, and vitamin C?
(choline has an UL and is an essential nutrient but is not defined as a vitamin)