Metabolism
Age, Gender, Body Size, Body Composition, Genetics, Pregnancy, Lactation, Growth, and Sickness are all examples of this
What are factors that affect metabolism?
A substance found in foods that provides nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life.
What is a nutrient?
This is food that is grown by farmers that live near you. If you buy this food it helps reduce the food miles your food has to travel to get to you, which reduces pollutants like CO2.
What is local foods?
This type of diet markets itself as a long term weight loss plan and says to follow a high fat high protein low carb diet to lose weight and keep it off. But Beware the ____ Flu!
What is Keto?
This says that health is not determined by weight but rather several different factors, some within our control and others outside our control!
What is Health and Every Size (HAES)?
The energy it takes for your body to eat, digest, absorb, and store nutrients
What is the Thermic Effect of Food?
This nutrient is found in things like pasta, bread, and vegetables and helps give your body and brain energy
What is a carbohydrate?
Food that is grown without the use of synthetic pesticides and herbicides and promotes biodiversity.
This diet was originally used as an elimination diet to determine food allergies. Now, it claims to be "not a diet" because it allows you to have everything.... except a list of foods that are deemed "inflammatory" like grains, legumes, dairy, alcohol, added and artificial sugar. Oh and you can't use any approved ingredients to make treats of any kind!
What is Whole30?
These 2 principle of intuitive eating talks about listening to your body's hunger and fullness cues and fueling yourself accordingly
What is Honor Your Hunger and Respect Your Fullness?
This term refers to the amount of energy your body needs to stay alive
What is Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) or Resting Energy Expenditure (REE)?
This nutrient is found in nuts, avocado, and dairy products, helps support cell growth
What is a fat?
A way to dispose of left over food and waste that is environmentally friendly
What is composting?
This diet prides itself on being the "#1 doctor recommended weight loss program" and allows you to eat whatever you want... Until you run out of your allotted points for the day and you aren't allowed to eat anymore!
What is weight watchers?
Allowing yourself to eat food that you are craving and eating for satisfaction fall under this intuitive eating principle
What is Discover the Satisfaction Factor?
This is considered constructive metabolism and is the building up or growing new cells, maintaining body tissues, and storage of energy for future use
What is anabolism?
This nutrient is found in meat, legumes, and milk and helps support muscles/muscle growth
What is a protein?
Farming that uses synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and usually grows one crop on a large-scale.
What is Industrial Farming?
These diets only last a few days and claim to "cleanse" your body to toxins that it may be holding onto. (Spoiled alert... your body is equipped with organs that do this with no help needed!)
What are Juice Cleanses?
Going for a vigorous run or going to a CrossFit class when you really wanted to watch a movie or do a light yoga class violates this principle of intuitive eating
This is considered destructive metabolism and is the process of breaking down food for the body to use for energy, provides fuel to heat the body, and enables muscles to contract and the body to move.
What is catabolism?
This nutrient group is made up of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants
What are micronutrients?
This term refers to the idea that human activity should be guided by the principle that the welfare of the environment and future generations should always be considered
What is sustainability?
This diet claims it attempts to get back to the way our ancestors ate by emphasizing natural, non-processed foods. It is very meat heavy and excludes dairy, grains and legumes, which are all important for a well-rounded diet.
What is Paleo?
This factor that effects your health and metabolism is something you are born with that is past down from both of your parents
What is Genetics?