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Taste
Digestion
Theories
Hunger
Health
100
These are the tastes we are built to like.
What is sweet and fatty and salty?
100
Why do we eat?
What is to provide the body with energy it needs to function?
100
This theory states that we do things because they are unlearned and automatic behaviors.
What is instinct?
100
What happens to blood glucose right before you eat?
What is it drops?
100
This is free eating.
What is ad libitum eating?
200
Animal research shows that we eat depending on our _______, or when others are around.
What is social environment?
200
This is the form of energy that is protein.
What is amino acids?
200
People who are ________ have a need for a high level of arousal and will do certain things to maintain it.
What is sensation seeking?
200
These are chains of amino acids that get released into the bloodstream when food is in stomach.
What are satiety peptides?
200
This explanation says that the overall level of eating is stable in order to maintain body weight.
What is lipostatic set point?
300
This is the feeling of fullness
What is satiety?
300
This is the preparatory phase of metabolism, the sight, smell and thought of food.
What is cephalic?
300
This is an example of a hunger peptide.
What is Neuropeptide Y?
300
_______ are a type of drug often used for weight loss because they reduce the amount eaten during a given meal.
What is serotonin agonists?
400
This is how much food is in your belly.
What is volume?
400
This hormone works during fasting and is involved in breaking down stored fuel.
What is glucagon?
400
This theory states the pleasurable aspects of eating and the anticipation of the pleasure motivates us to eat.
What is positive incentive theory?
400
This part of the hypothalamus is the "feeding center" of the brain that controls the intiation of eating. When you lesion it animals stop eating and drinking.
What is the Lateral Hypothalamus?
400
Describe the health of Okinawans.
What is they consume very few calories and they have lower rates of morbidity and mortality as well as age related disease?
500
Explain the Rolls Study on palatability.
What is the participants rated 8 foods, then eat a meal of one, after rerate. Food eaten decreases and if given second meal will eat any food but original one eaten.
500
What does insulin do?
What is helps you sue or store fuel?
500
Explain sham eating studies.
What is a tube is implanted into the esophogaus so that food is chewed and swallowed but never goes to stomach. Despite this, sham meals tend to be the same size as previous meals. So meal size influenced by experience, implying we eat what we are used to eating.
500
Explain Koopmans study.
He transplanted extra stomach/intestine into rats, joined up the circulatory systems and injected food into transplanted one. Food in the transplanted one decreased eating depending on caloric content and volume. No nerves connected and no nutrients absorbed so stomach must release chemical.
500
Explain Ob/Ob mouse.
What is he has a mutant gene called ob. He is very fat and eats more and stores more than average mice. He also uses fat calories more efficiently. The mutant gene is expressed in fat cells and it codes doe protein called leptin. The more fat you have the more leptin you have so he needs it to eat less and be skinny.