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Carbohydrates
Obesity
Heart Disease
Diabetes
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100
The disaccaride that has a Glucose bound to a Fructose.
What is Sucrose?
100
True or false? Obesity increases your risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes.
What is True?
100
This stage in the deveolpment of heart disease starts at birth.
What is the Fatty Streak Stage?
100
This type of Diabetes is generally diagnosed by age 20, and is known as "insulin-dependent" diabetes. About 5-10% of cases are this type.
What is Type 1 Diabetes?
100
In studies of poplulations, researchers found that higher intakes of these two food groups are correlated with lower cancer rates.
What are fruits and vegetables?
200
Consuming adequate amounts of this type of carbohydrate will help raise your HDL. It will also help keep your gut healthy!
What is Fiber?
200
Obesity is defined as having a body mass index greater than ____ and having ______-shaped fat deposits.
What is 30 & Apple
200
The dietary recommendations to decrease Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) include reduction of these two kinds of fat.
What are Saturated and Trans-fat
200
Diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases that are characterized by this.
What is Hyperglycemia?
200
This is the "storage" form of glucose in the body. It is made in the Liver and the Muscles.
What is glycogen?
300
The ranking of foods according to their potential to raise blood glucose.
What is Glycemic Index?
300
True or False: In obese individuals, weight loss of 10 pounds can result in a lowering of high blood pressure.
What is True?
300
Elevated levels of this "bad" type of blood cholesterol has been correlated with increased rates of Atherosclerosis, which in turn can lead to a heart attack.
What is LDL?
300
These are the two tell-tale symptoms of Hyperglycemia. Other sypmtoms include blurred vision, muscle weakness, frequent headaches, craving of sweets. Having these symptoms indicate when you need to be tested for Diabetes.
What are unquenchable thirst & frequent urination?
300
This diet includes higher intakes of fruits & vegetables, low-fat dairy, and reduced sodium intake, and will help treat hypertension.
What is the DASH diet?
400
This disorder is caused by an inability to digest the disaccaride found in milk. Symptoms include bloating, gas and pain, following consumption of milk or some milk products.
What is Lactose Intolerance?
400
Consumption of adequate amounts of fiber-containing foods can help with weight loss becasue they typically contain ________ calories.
What are fewer/less?
400
By the time they are this old, many people have well-developed plaques in their arteries.
What is 30 years old?
400
In the Obesity-Diabetes cycle, enlarged fat cells release a compound that can cause THIS disorder. It is basically your body's inability to absorb glucose out of the blood and into the cells.
What is insulin resistance?
400
A person has a BMI of 38 (with apple-shape) obesity and has high cholesterol. Moderate exercise for 30 minutes a day on most days per week will help lower this kind of cholesterol.
What is LDL?
500
The three end products that reault with the complete metabolism (breakdown) of Glucose inside a cell.
What are Carbon Dioxide, Water, and ATP?
500
Childhood and Adult Obesity is a problem because it increases ones risk for developing these four nutrition-related diseases (covered in class).
What is Heart Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Cancer, Hypertension.
500
This syndrome is when you have a grouping of three or more of certain symptoms, and will increase your risk of developing Cardiovascular Disease (and Type 2 Diabetes).
What is Metabolic Syndrome/Syndrome X?
500
Regular exercise in important in the treatment of Type 2 Diabetes because of these two ways it helps to break the Obesity-Diabetes cycle.
What are decreases insulin resistance & helps with weight loss.
500
The classification of someone with a BMI of 27.
What is Overweight?