FNDH 400 FINAL UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

FNDH 400 FINAL UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. Following digestion of starch, glucose and fructose would be the products left for uptake into the
enterocyte.
Answer:

Question:
2. Following consumption of the _________, lipoprotein lipase would be active to cleave fatty acids from
lipoproteins like _______.
Answer:
Ornish diet; VLDL

Question:
3. LDL is ____________ dense and more cholesterol-rich than VLDL from having _________ during its
formation.
Answer:
smaller, more; triglycerides cleaved

Question:
4. Following consumption of a meal containing long chain fatty acids, _________ will be released from
the small intestine into _________ and travel through the _______ before eventually reaching the liver as
_________.
Answer:
chylomicrons; lacteal; lymph; chylomicron remnants

Question:
5. Individuals with need to avoid consuming gluten, which is found in ______ products.
Answer:
Celiac disease; wheat

Question:
6. If a person's cardiovascular disease risk warrants it based on an online calculator, he/she should take a
statin, which _______ HMG CoA reductase activity, thus decreasing cholesterol _________.
Answer:
inhibits; synthesis

Question:
7. Beta-oxidation _______ fatty acids ________ acetyl-CoA.
Answer:
breaks down; into

Question:
8. ________ synthesizes fatty acids from acetyl-CoA.

, Answer:
De novo lipogenesis

Question:
9. _______ is the anabolic synthesis of glycogen from glucose, ________ is the catabolic ________ of
glucose to pyruvate.
Answer:
Glycogenesis; glycolysis; breakdown

Question:
10. Name the tissue, organ, or cells that you learned about that does not perform the citric acid cycle.
Answer:
Red Blood Cells

Question:
11. If a person has been consuming a diet that lacks carbohydrates for a week, what would the primary
energy source be that the muscle would use to generate ATP.
Answer:
Fatty Acids

Question:
12. What is carnitine's function related to macronutrient metabolism?
Answer:
It helps to transport long-chain fatty acids into the mitochondria.

Question:
13. Why are not all compounds that are taken up into enterocytes eventually absorbed?
Answer:
Because enterocytes are sloughed off, meaning that what compounds are within them are not all
necessarily absorbed.

Question:
14. A) During a fast, what would the adipose be secreting?
B) What hormone is stimulating this action?
Answer:
Adipose secrets: Fatty Acids, Amino Acids Hormone secreted Lipase

Question:
15. The Baby Food Diet recommended consuming 14 jars of baby food a day followed by a regular meal.
Assume that a person that follows this diet only consumes pureed fruit and vegetable options and then
follows this with a vegetarian dinner that he/she has just finished eating, resulting in him/her being in
positive energy balance. Assume that he/she was consuming no fat as part of the diet.
A) Would the liver be secreting a significant amount of urea in this condition? Briefly explain why or why
not (4 points)?
B) What would his/her liver be secreting? Briefly describe where this is came from (4 points).
C) What would his/her adipose be taking up? What would it do with what is being taken up (metabolic
processes, how stored, briefly describe, 5 points)?