The maintenance of the proper amount and kinds of fluids and minerals in each compartment of the body pg 279
What is Fluid and electrolyte balance
100
The body's fat tissue that synthesizes and secretes the hormone leptin pg 323
What is Adipose Tissue
100
Only these two elements conduct electrical current in the body pg.327
What is lean tissue and water
100
This term is used to describe the influence of nutrients on the functioning of the immune system pg.403
What is immunonutrition
100
Painful inflammations of joints caused by many conditions such as metabolic disturbances, injury or infection pg. 553
What is arthritis
200
The diseases associated with iodine deficiency pg 293
What is goiter and cretinism
200
The body's speeded up metabolism in response to having eaten a meal pg 324
What is Thermic Effect of Food (TEF)
200
This is easily absorbed in the body intact and is either used for fuel or converted into body fat for storage pg. 340
What is Alcohol
200
indispensable tissues and cells of the immune system that dwindle in size and number leaving the whole body vulnerable to infection pg.403
What is protein-energy malnutrition
200
The loss of brain function and memory that occurs with aging pg. 554
What is senile dementia
300
the body's major negative ion, responsible for stomach acidity and assists in maintaining proper body chemistry pg 291
What is Chloride
300
The DRI recommendation for energy intake accounting age, height, weight and gender pg 325
What is Estimated Energy Requirement (EER)
300
This provides a precise measurement of total fat and its distribution in all but extremely obese subjects. It helps differentiate between fat free soft tissue, bone tissue and fat tissue. pg.328
What is Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA)
300
In the U.S and Canada, these diseases outrank infections as the leading causes of death and illness pg. 402
What is degenerative diseases
300
This disease causes some degree of brain deterioration in many people past the age of 65
What is Alzheimer's Disease
400
water that has been treated by distillation or other physical or chemical processes that remove dissolved solids pg 277
What is Purified Water
400
The body's energy budget is measured in calories taken in each day in the form of foods and beverages. pg 324
What is "energy in"
400
This is stimulated by an absence of food in the digestive tract and appetite can occur with or with out it pg. 331
What is hunger
400
This is at the root of most forms of cardiovascular disease. It is the common form of hardening of arteries pg.406
What is atherosclerosis
400
This is clouding of the lens of the eye that can lead to blindness pg.554
What is cataracts
500
water from a municipal or county water system that has been treated or disinfected pg 277
What is Public Water
500
This is the generation and release of body heat associated with the breakdown of body fuels pg.334
What is thermogenesis
500
This attempts to explain the variations in which people gain or lose weight when eating more or less food energy than they expend. pg.333
What is Metabolic Theory
500
As pressure builds up in an artery, the arterial wall may become weakened and it may swell out. This is called? pg. 408
What is aneurysm
500
The DRI Committee recommends that this amount of micrograms of B-12 be taken daily by older adults 51 years and older to ensure vitamin requirements are met pg. 553