Diets
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Diabetes
Misc.
100

What is the goal of the dash diet (diet guidelines wise)?

To reduce sodium and saturated fats

100

In the article that men and women did high CHO and high FAT diets, how many calories did they decrease from their diet?

500 kcals

100

Unlike the glycemic index, the glycemic load accounts for what?

Serving size

100

Type 1 diabetes is an ____ disease. This means the (which organ) cannot produce ample amounts of insulin to bind with receptors. 

autoimmune, pancreas

100

What is the spillover effect?

Fat cells have reached their capacity of their TG, so TG cannot enter. They are forced to be housed somewhere else. 

200

What is a con of a high CHO diet when there is an intake of a large amount of refined CHO? 

It can reduce fat oxidation

200

In the article with only women who were not at risk patients, there was decreased levels of total fat, LDL, HDL, and an increase of TG in which type of diet?

Low fat

200

Very low calorie diets can lead to the icreceased secretion of ____ and or reduced secretion of ____ which will result in more hunger (increased appetite) 

ghrelin, leptin

200

The equation for glycemic index is ...

AUC of food wanting to be measure

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AUC of glucose standard

200

What is a p value of significance? 

< or equal to .05

300

The diabetic diet is meant to avoid what?

High glycemic food

300

Postprandial means...

The time between meals

300

Overtime, if blood glucose levels continue to rise the body can convert some of the glucose into ____ in an attempt to control blood glucose levels. 

Triglycerides 

300

What is insulin resistance due to the increase of TG in the skeletal muscle and liver? 

Reduced uptake and reduced storage of glucose because of the increase of TG in the liver and SM

300

What is adiponectin? 

The hormone made by fat tissue that has antioxidant properties and can help reduce CVD

400

The mediterranean diet allows for the unlimited use of what

Olive oil

400

In the article where men and women both did high CHO and high FAT diets, which diet showed a consistent reduction in body mass?

High fat low cho
400

Prolonged starvation can lead to dangerously high concentrations of _______, _______, and _____ within the gallbladder. 

cholesterol, bile, and salts

400

The equation for glycemic load is...

(glycemic load x serving size of CHO in food)

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100

400

What are 2 reasons that explains how low CHO diets can help reduce a persons appetite? 

-production of ketones (naturally reduce appetite)

-with lower CHO, you reduce the big blood sugar drops

500

The mediterranean diet has been known to lower what? 

-Risk for CVD

-Prevalence of cancers

-blood glucose

500

In the intermittent fasting article with women who were overweight, in general which diet had an advantage on body composition? 

Neither, there was no advantage for either diet when it came to body comp

500

A daily consumption of between ___ and ____ calories is considered to be low calorie diet.

800-1500

500

Type 2 diabetes is not an issue with the production of insulin, but with the ____. ____ is not activated and then glucose cannot get into the cell. 

receptors, glut 4

500

In a low CHO, high fat diet, when an individual loses 20 lbs from dieting alone, how much of that weight loss is due to the loss of body fat? 

20 x .71= 14.2 lbs