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BIOD 121-ESSENTIALS IN NUTRITION MODULE 1 EXAM WITH ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2024/2025

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What is nutrition: - ANSWER>>>>>nutrition by definition is a science
that links food to health and disease. It includes the processes that
humans ingest, digest, absorb, transport, and excrete substances

Nutrition spands all ages in which: - ANSWER>>>>>it impacts the time of
birth to the time of death

How do pharmaceuticals and the food industry play into nutrition: -
ANSWER>>>>>through the different supplements we take, what we eat
and why we eat as far as food safety, mass production, restaurants,
manufacturers, media, and food labels

Nutrition by definition is the science that links food to: -
ANSWER>>>>>health and disease

Good nutrition as well as exercise leads to: - ANSWER>>>>>good health

Media plays a huge role into nutrition as far as: -
ANSWER>>>>>marketing, fad diets, celebrities, etc.

Nutrients can be classified as: - ANSWER>>>>>macro-nutrient, micro-
nutrient, organic, and inorganic

Macro-nutrient: - ANSWER>>>>>needed in large amounts in the body

Micro-nutrients: - ANSWER>>>>>needed in small amounts in the body

Organic: - ANSWER>>>>>a compound that contains carbon and
hydrogen

Inorganic: - ANSWER>>>>>any substance that doesn't contain carbon

, Mechanical energy: - ANSWER>>>>>perform muscular movements

What are hormones: - ANSWER>>>>>they are compounds that are
secreted into the bloodstream by different cells, and their goal is to act
to control the function of another type of cell

Ghrelin: - ANSWER>>>>>is produced by the stomach; its job is to travel
to the brain,stimulate the hunger center, and deactivate the satiety
center

Leptin: - ANSWER>>>>>is produced by fat cells called adipose tissue; its
job is to alert the brain, turn off the hunger center, and activate the
satiety center' any time your eating your leptin levels should increase to
tell you that your full

Name the key hormone that causes hunger. Indicate where in the body
its produced and the process by which it operates: -
ANSWER>>>>>ghrelin; its produced by the stomach; its job is to travel
the brain and stimulate the hunger center and deactivate the satiety
center

Two key hormones in the process of hunger and satiety are: -
ANSWER>>>>>ghrelin and leptin

Name the key hormone that causes satiety. Indicate where in the body
its produced and the process by which it operates: -
ANSWER>>>>>leptin; its produced by fat cells; its job is to alert the
brain, turn off the hunger center, and activate satiety center

There are different types of hormones related to hunger and satiety.
Three major hormones for increasing hunger are: -
ANSWER>>>>>ghrelin, endorphines, and neuropeptide Y

Anytime your eating, your leptin levels should: - ANSWER>>>>>increase
to tell you that your full

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