Energy Balance & Weight Contorl
The consumption of the same number of Calories as expended; Calories eaten equals Calories burned; isocaloric; body weight is maintained
Having good cardiovascular, respiratory, and muscular capacity as assessed by body composition, aerobic activity, and muscular performance and flexibility.
The study of how genes bring about characteristics, or traits, in living things and how those characteristics are inherited.
The environment creates a struggle for existence; Those with favorable traits will survive and reproduce more successfully, passing these adaptive traits to offspring.
1.5 million years ago; Unprocessed plant food to processed food (cooking, storage); Scavenging for meat
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These are composed of segments of DNA molecules that control discrete hereditary characteristics.
700,000 years ago; Hunting of larger animals; Hunting in groups
The number of Calories consumed equals the number of Calories expended
This is used in conjunction with the working heart rate (WHR) to monitor aerobic fitness tests.
These have a double set of chromosomes, one from each parent.
10,000 years ago; Modern climate, vegetation, and fauna; Disappearance of large species; Shift from collection to production
This contributes about 3 percent of total body weight in males and contributes about 12 percent of total body weight in females.
The most popular resistive exercise and incorporates eccentric and concentric muscle contractions as well as isokinetic and isometric muscle contractions.
These contain the same genes, but not necessarily the same alleles.
Subcutaneous body fat accumulation and distribution in the thighs, hips, buttocks, and lower body causing an individual to have a pear shape due to excess stored body fat.
A greater than normal workload demand placed on the cardiorespiratory or skeletal-muscular systems that leads to increased functional capacity.
This is an unborn error of metabolism; Mutation in the liver enzyme, phenylalanine hydroxylase, encoded by the PAH gene.