Micronutrients
The vitamin only found in food from animals
What is vitamin b12
The macronutrient that is converted to energy the fastest
What is carbohydrate?
A condition that is characterized by 3 or more of these factors: abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, impaired fasting glucose, high triglyceride levels, and low HDL cholesterol levels.
What is metabolic syndrome?
An organ that has both an endocrine role and exocrine role in digestion and metabolism
What is the pancreas?
3 factors that meet the conditions for surgical intervention for weight loss in obese people
What are BMI of at least 40, failure of diet and exercise to promote acceptable weight loss and presence of physiological problems?
The primary minerals that make up bone
What calcium and phosphorus
A common childhood disorder and is primarily caused by a deficiency of energy, protein, and micronutrients and manifests as underweight, stunting, wasting or edematous malnutrition.
What is protein-energy malnutrition
This type of diabetes is usually brought on during a specific period in time and poses a risk for more than one person
What is gestational diabetes?
A series of chemical reactions to release stored energy through the oxidation of acetyl-CoA derived from carbohydrates, fats, and proteins
What is the krebs cycle/TCA cycle?citric acid cycle?
The best approach to weight loss
What is reducing daily energy intake and increasing energy expenditure?
A lack of this mineral can lead to conditions like goiter.
What is iodine?
The percentage of daily caloric intake that fat should make up
What is 25-35%?
a condition where there is difficulty swallowing
What is dysphagia?
The form of iron that is transported in the blood
What is transferrin?
Instruments used to measure body composition
What are skin fold callipers, BIA scale, hydrostatic weighing, are displacement plethysmography, dual energy X-ray Absoptimortry
This vitamin is abundant in fruits, sensitive to light, heat and is water soluble
What is vitamin C?
The 9 essential amino acids
What are histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine?
A condition that develops when your body doesn't have enough insulin to allow blood sugar into your cells for use as energy and the pH in the body is lowered
What is ketoacidosis?
The organ that filters all of the blood in the body and breaks down poisonous substances, such as alcohol and drugs.
What is the liver?
The categories of nutritional assessment
What are anthropometric, biochemical, clinical and dietary?
Diets low in this food group make it more difficult to meet riboflavin needs
What is dairy foods?
sources of alpha-linolenic acid
What are flaxseed oil, canola, soy, perilla, and walnut oil?
An interruption in the flow of blood to the brain
What is a stroke or cerebral vascular accident?
The ormal range for blood pressure
systolic: less than 120 mm Hg diastolic: less than 80 mm Hg