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Energy Balance
Life Cycle Nutrition: Pregnancy and Lactation
Life Cycle Nutrition: Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
Life Cycle Nutrition: The Mature Adult
Weight Management
100
The amount of heat required to raise 1 kilogram of water 1 degree C.
What is a kilocalorie?
100
The period beginning after the 28th week of pregnancy and ending 28 days after birth.
What is perinatal?
100
The gradual process of changing from a simple to a more complex organism.
What is development?
100
The middle-aged adult guides the next generation.
What is generativity?
100
Situation in which the kilocalories eaten do not equal the number of kilocalories used for energy.
What is energy imbalance?
200
The heat produced by the body after a meal.
What is the thermic effect of food (TEF)?
200
Hypertension and proteinuria, appearing after the twentieth week of pregnancy.
What is preeclampsia?
200
The lack of an enzyme needed to metabolize galactose; absolute contraindication to breastfeeding.
What is galactosemia?
200
The probable number of years that persons of a given age may be expected to live.
What is life expectancy?
200
Removal of fat tissue through a vacuum hose.
What is liposuction.
300
Any activity during which the energy metabolism needed is supported by the amount of increase in oxygen inspired.
What is aerobic exercise?
300
Severe nausea and vomitting persisting after the 14th week of pregnancy.
What is hyperemesis gravidarum?
300
A substance that provokes an abnormal individual hypersensitivity.
What is an allergen?
300
Progressive deterioration of the cartilage in the joints.
What is osteoarthritis?
300
A surgical procedure that routes food around the stomach.
What is gastric bypass?
400
Foods that contain kcalories and almost no nutrients.
What are empty calories?
400
A condition characterized by mental and physical abnormalities in an infant caused by the mother's consumption of alcohol during pregnancy.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)?
400
The period that extends from the onset of puberty until full growth is reached.
What is adolescence?
400
The loss of appetite in an elderly individual related to physiologic, social, psychological, or medical causes.
What is anorexia of aging?
400
The intentional clearing of food out of the system by vomitting and/or using enemas, laxatives, and diuretics.
What is purging?
500
Exercise during which energy is provided without an increase in the use of inspired oxygen.
What is anaerobic exercise?
500
Bacterial infection caused by Listeria monocytogenes that is particularly virulent for fetuses.
What is listeriosis?
500
An infant born after a normal pregnancy.
What is a term infant?
500
The major cause of tooth loss in the older adult.
What is periodontal disease?
500
Excess body fat that is located between the chest and pelvis.
What is abdominal obesity?