Vitamins
Known to improve night vision.
What is Vitamin A?
This is the most abundant mineral in the body.
What is calcium?
According to the AHA, this is now considered to be a normal blood pressure.
What is less than 120/80?
Calculation based on an individual's height and weight that looks to determine an increased risk for health issues.
What is Body Mass Index?
This popular diet is not indicated for individuals with Type 1 Diabetes due to is low carbohydrate and high protein and fat content.
What is the Ketogenic (Keto) diet?
A known antioxidant, this vitamin commonly found in nuts and healthy oils.
What is Vitamin E?
What is phosphorus?
Type of healthy fats found mainly in seafood that can reduce inflammation and increase HDL levels.
What are Omega-3 Fatty acids?
Defined as body weight exceeding 100% of normal weight
What is morbid obesity?
This diet promotes omitting sugars, most starches, preservatives, and dairy in order to help determine food sensitivities and allergies.
What is the Whole 30?
Green leafy vegetables are high in this vitamin that is involved in blood clotting.
What is Vitamin K?
What is iron?
Disease in which artery walls build up lipid deposits and scar tissue, impairing blood flow.
What is Atherosclerosis?
Most accurate method used to determine body mass composition.
What is underwater weighing?
This popular diet promotes both portion control and healthy food choices, in combination with coaching, as a way to promote weight loss.
What is Weight Watchers?
Vegans are at high risk for this vitamin deficiency.
What is Vitamin B12?
This mineral is needed to produce hormones necessary for growth and development, and was once a common deficiency in Northeast Ohio
What is Iodine?
This lipid profile measurement may be the best indicator of risk for cardiovascular disease?
What is the non-HDL cholesterol level? (Will also accept Cholesterol/ratio).
This type of body fat patterning is associated with a higher incidence of chronic disease.
What is the Apple-Shaped Fat Patterning?
This popular diet is promoted and advocated for by organizations such as the National Institute of Health and the American Heart Association due to its success in lowering blood pressure
What is the DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension)?
This is also known as Ascorbic Acid.
What is Vitamin C?
An excess intake of this mineral is often associated with high blood pressure.
What is sodium?
This theory suggests that plaque build-up in the arteries begins in response to oxidative damage to the arterial wall.
What is the Response-to-Injury theory?
What is the FTO gene (Fat Mass and Obesity-Associated gene)?
This popular diet has been found to significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in individuals with diabetes.
What is the Mediterranean Diet?