Digestion
Digestion begins here
What is the mouth?
The percent of adult Americans that is considered obese
What is 42%?
The range of percentage of cancer patients estimated to have malnutrition
What is 30-85%?
The number of US adults with diabetes
What is 38.4 million?
This is the ideal for total cholesterol level for an adult
What is less than 200?
The sphincter responsible for letting food from the stomach into the duodenum
What is the pyloric sphincter?
This racial population has nearly 1 in 2 obese
What is the non-Hispanic black?
This is the most common effect of cancer treatment
What is fatigue?
This ethnic group has the highest prevalence of diabetes
What is American Indian or Alaskan Native?
59% of this group had some form of CVD between 2017-2020
What are non-Hispanic Black women?
This digestive organ averages 22 feet in length
What is the small intestine?
The estimated cost of obesity in US in 2019
What is $173 billion?
A recommendation for using plastic utensils can be made for patients suffering from this side effect
Taste changes
The estimated cost of diabetes in 2022
What is $412.9 billion?
These two types of plant based oils are high in saturated fat
What are coconut and palm oils?
This hormone made in your stomach signals your brain when you're hungry.
What is Ghrelin?
This type of surgery creates a small gastric pouch and connects it to the small intestine
What is the Roux-en-Y?
Patients with this type of cancer have the highest rates of feeding tube placement
What is head and neck cancer?
This is the most common complication of poorly controlled diabetes
What is neuropathy?
These three minerals are high in the DASH diet
What are potassium, calcium and magnesium?
These metabolites are produced in the large intestine through the anaerobic fermentation of indigestible polysaccharides
What are short chain fatty acids?
What is the duodenal switch?
This is the most common reason for diarrhea in tube fed patients
What is medicines containing sorbitol?
This essential mineral plays a role in blood sugar regulation
What is chromium?
Salt sensitive hypertension can be seen in approximately this percent of the population
What is 50%?