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Crossfit Nutrition Exam Questions With
Verified Answers
Hyperinsulinemia - answer✔Is the chronic and acute elevation of insulin as a result of habitual
consumption of excess carbohydrate.
The mechanism by which excess carbohydrate causes disease. - answer✔Hyperinsulinemia
Play a dominant role in chronic diseases such as obesity, coronary heart disease, many cancers, and
diabetes. May also be linked to Alzheimer's, aging, cancers, and other disease through a process known
as "glycosylation." - answer✔Excess of carbohydrates
Way to avoid Hyperinsulinemia - answer✔Minimizing carbohydrate consumption-specifically
carbohydrate that gives substantial rise to blood sugar and consequently insulin levels.
Singular measure of carbohydrate that gives the propensity to raise blood sugar - answer✔Glycemic
Index
Foods that must be avoided in order to avoid many, if not most, of the ills associated with diet. -
answer✔High-glycemic foods
Starchy, sweet, or processed foods like bread, pasta, rice, potato, grains, and desserts. -
answer✔Examples of High-glycemic foods or "bad foods"
Crossfit's nutrition prescription - answer✔Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little
starch, and no sugar.
Diet followed by CrossFit's best performers - answer✔Zone Diet (Zone Meal Plan)
Diet that accelerates and amplifies the effects of the CrossFit regimen. - answer✔Zone Diet
Recommendation of Zone Diet about weigh and measure portions - answer✔We encourage everyone to
weigh and measure portions for a couple weeks because it is supremely worth the effort, not because it
is fun.
If you choose to "guesstimate" portions, you will have the result of CrossFit's top performers only if and
when you are lucky