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Energy Balance and Weight Control
Health and Fitness
Nutrition and Genetics
Natural Selection
Food, Inc.
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Define Body Composition 
The percentages of fat mass, mineral mass, and lean body mass contributing to the total body weight of a person.
100
Define physical fitness
Having good cardiovascular, respiratory, and muscular capacity assessed by body composition, aerobic activity, and muscular performance and flexibility. 
100
What are the processes required for proper nutrition?
digestion, absorption, and excretion 
100
What are the three components of natural selection?
Variation, heritability, and differential survival/reproduction
100
what percentage of the land in the u.s is corn fields 
30%
200
When is a man/ a woman considered too fat?

Male: if he has more than 20% body fat

Female: if she has more than 26% body fat

200
What is the differnce between aerobic and resistive exercise?
Aerobic places physiological demand on the cardiorespiratory system and resistive places physiological demand on the skeletal-muscular system. 
200
How can metabolic disorders be managed? 
my moderating nutrient intake
200
what is lactose persistence? 

The ability to digest lactose as an adult

200
humans are hardwired to crave these 3 things 
sugar, salt, and fat 
300
What are some different techniques to measure percentage of body fat? 
Underwater weighing, the Bod Pod, Skin-fold caliper, bioelectrical impedance
300
What does each letter in FIT stand for/do?

Frequency: of exercise session (referred to in terms of the number of days per week that one exercises)

Intensity: of the exercise (based on percentage of MHR while exercising)

Time/Duration: that the elevation of heart rate has been maintained (in continuous minutes) 

300
what does receptor-mediated endocytosis do?
It uptakes a variety of nutrients and other critical metabolites by cells is carried out. 
300
list the enzymes involved in starch digestion 
Amylase: Salivary amylase, pancreatic amylase, maltose (small intestine)
300
Can life be patented?
yes 
400
What is BMI?
BMI is used to define the healthiness of the body weight in relation to height.
400
What is FIT used for? 
Used to define and communicate a persons cardiovascular fitness based on his or her aerobic exercise habits.
400
possible effects of heterozygosity
phenylketonuria
400
What does amylases us to break up covalent bonds 
hydrolysis 
400
Who is the largest purchaser of ground beef (and potatoes) in the U.S 
Mcdonalds 
500
How do you calculate BMI?
You take the body weight (in kilograms) and divide it by height (in meters squared).
500
What is the overload principle?
A greater than normal workload demand placed on the cardiorespiratory or skeletal-muscular systems that leads to increased functional capacity. 
500
What are the differnce forms of a gene called? 
allele 
500
Name the gene that produces salivary amylase 
the AMY-1 gene 
500
what put over 1.5million Mexican corn farmers out of work?
Cheap corn industries in the u.s