Summarize why eating a healthy breakfast is important.
The food you eat at breakfast gives you a source of energy for your body and glucose for your brain
100
Describe how heredity and lifestyle affect body weight
Having a body shape that is similar to one of your families is due to heredity.
100
What is the relationship between body image and eating disorders?
Body image is a way that people feel about their appearance and having a eating disorder can also cause you to feel about your appearance
100
Describe three of the most common digestive disorders.
Heartburn, ulcers, and embarrassing digestive problems.
200
How is obesity linked to poor health?
Being overweight can cause heart disease and high blood pressure, certain forms of cancer, including prostate, colon, and breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, and sleeping problems such as sleep apnea.
200
What are the components of a healthy weight management plan?
To eat smart, exercise more, and lose fat, not muscle
200
Describe the type of individual who is most at risk for an eating disorder
They are most common in people from cultures in which being thin is equated with being attractive, successful, and intelligent.
200
How can diarrhea be life threatening?
Diarrhea increases water loss from the body and lead to dehydration
300
What is the difference between hunger and appetite?
Hunger is the body's physical response to the need for food. Appetite is the desire, rather than the need, to eat certain foods.
300
Evaluate the dangers of fad diets and weight-loss practices.
Very low carbohydrate diets, liquid formulas, stimulants, fasting, and diuretics
300
List the symptoms and health dangers of the most common eating disorders.
Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating, and purging.
300
How can food allergies affect health.
They can cause, upset stomachs, hives, a runny nose, body aches, difficulty breathing, and a drop in blood pressure
400
How does the balance of food intake and and exercise affect body weight?
Eating more or less food than you need will cause you to be out of energy balance. Eating extra food energy increases the body's fat stores and causes weight gain. Eating less food than you need decreases the body's fat stores and cause weight loss.
400
What is the definition of body composition?
A measure of the proportion of the body weight that is made up of fat tissue compared to bone and muscle.
400
What is purging?
Purging is a behavior that involves vomiting or misusing laxatives to rid the body of food.
400
Identify a common cause of food intolerances.
It can be caused by eating foods or ingredients in a meal that irritate the intestine(such as onions).
500
What are three factors that influence the foods you choose to eat?
The smell and taste of the food, mood, family traditions and ethnic backgrounds, social occasions, religious traditions, health concerns, advertising, cost and availability.
500
What are two examples of fad diets?
Diet pills and surgery
500
What are the two types of eating disorders?
Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
500
What is a food-borne illness?
An illness caused by eating or drinking a food that contains a toxin or disease causing microorganism.