NUTR 280 Final Exam JMU Theimer
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Answers
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No weight loss needed - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔BMI < 25 kg/m
weight loss recommended - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔BMI > 30 kg/m
significantly reduces health risks associated with being overweight or obese -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Losing 5% to 15% of body weight
1/2 to 2 lbs/week; equates to 500 calories reduction per day - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Weight loss should be gradual
leads to lower BMR and lead to loss of body proteins and water - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Severe calorie restriction
you're more likely to regain weight - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔If you lose weight rapidly
repeated cycle of weight loss & weight gain - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Yo-yo dieting or
weight cycling
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,-choose nutrient dense foods
-multivitamins/mineral supplements recommended with intakes less than 1200
calories/day
-intakes less than 800 calories should be done under medical supervision -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Decreasing energy intakes
150 minutes of moderate intensity aerobic activity per week *some may need to do
more minutes per week - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔2010 dietary guidelines for Americans
recommendation on physical activity
a process that is used to gradually and permanently change habitual behaviors -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔behavior modification
a. identify antecedents
b. recognize the behavior
c. see the consequences
c. modify the behavior
d. enjoy the new consequence - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔ABCS of behavior modification
eating disorder characterized by self-starvation, a distorted body image, and
abnormally low body weight - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Anorexia Nervosa
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, eating disorder characterized by consumption of a large amount of food at one time
(binge eating) followed by purging behavior - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bulimia Nervosa
desire to consume specific foods triggered by EXTERNAL cues INDEPENDANT
of hunger
-stimulated by sight, smell, taste of food stimulates endorphins ("brains" pleasure
chemicals) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔appetite
desire to consume food that is triggered by INTERNAL physiological signals such
as empty GI tract, low nutrient levels in bloodstream, hormones, etc. Usually sets
in 4-6 hours - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔hunger
total amount of energy used in the body each day
*it consists of three components
-basal metabolism
-energy needed for physical activity
-energy needed to "process" the food - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Total energy expenditure
energy expended to maintain an awake, resting body that is NOT digesting food
-includes all essential metabolic reactions and life sustaining functions to keep you
alive/breathing etc
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2025/2026 Exam Questions and Answers
| 100% Pass
No weight loss needed - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔BMI < 25 kg/m
weight loss recommended - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔BMI > 30 kg/m
significantly reduces health risks associated with being overweight or obese -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Losing 5% to 15% of body weight
1/2 to 2 lbs/week; equates to 500 calories reduction per day - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Weight loss should be gradual
leads to lower BMR and lead to loss of body proteins and water - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Severe calorie restriction
you're more likely to regain weight - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔If you lose weight rapidly
repeated cycle of weight loss & weight gain - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Yo-yo dieting or
weight cycling
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY 1
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,-choose nutrient dense foods
-multivitamins/mineral supplements recommended with intakes less than 1200
calories/day
-intakes less than 800 calories should be done under medical supervision -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Decreasing energy intakes
150 minutes of moderate intensity aerobic activity per week *some may need to do
more minutes per week - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔2010 dietary guidelines for Americans
recommendation on physical activity
a process that is used to gradually and permanently change habitual behaviors -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔behavior modification
a. identify antecedents
b. recognize the behavior
c. see the consequences
c. modify the behavior
d. enjoy the new consequence - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔ABCS of behavior modification
eating disorder characterized by self-starvation, a distorted body image, and
abnormally low body weight - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Anorexia Nervosa
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, eating disorder characterized by consumption of a large amount of food at one time
(binge eating) followed by purging behavior - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bulimia Nervosa
desire to consume specific foods triggered by EXTERNAL cues INDEPENDANT
of hunger
-stimulated by sight, smell, taste of food stimulates endorphins ("brains" pleasure
chemicals) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔appetite
desire to consume food that is triggered by INTERNAL physiological signals such
as empty GI tract, low nutrient levels in bloodstream, hormones, etc. Usually sets
in 4-6 hours - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔hunger
total amount of energy used in the body each day
*it consists of three components
-basal metabolism
-energy needed for physical activity
-energy needed to "process" the food - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Total energy expenditure
energy expended to maintain an awake, resting body that is NOT digesting food
-includes all essential metabolic reactions and life sustaining functions to keep you
alive/breathing etc
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