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Dietetics - Answer The use of evidence-based practices in the area of food and
nutrition to improve and maintain good health
Health vs Wellness - Answer Health - complete well being
Wellness - full potential development
Essential Nutrients - Answer carbs, protein, fats, minerals, vitamins and water
Nonessential Nutrients - Answer amino acids and cholesterol
What creates the info on food labels? - Answer RDA and RDI
Percentage of calories burned by the thermal effect of food and exercise? - Answer
TEF - 10 %
Physical Activity - 15%-30%
convert kilocalories (kcal) into kilojoules (kJ) - Answer multiply the number of
kilocalories by 4.184
,Whole grain vs refined whole grain - Answer refined only has 1 or 2 layers; whole
has all 3 layers
Dextrin - Answer group of carbohydrates broken down in the mouth because of
amylase saliva
Ptyalin - Answer aka salivary amylase
Cellulose - Answer nondigestable dissacharide that adds bulk to the diet
saturated fats are usually... - Answer animal products
Omega is determined by - Answer where the first double bond is
Hydrogenation - Answer moving the double bond to a different side to make it
more shelf stable and creating trans fats
Phospholipids are triglyceride derivatives in which a phosphate group replaces one
fatty acid... Which makes it... - Answer partially hydrophobic and hydrophilic aka
amphipathic
major phospholipid produced by the liver, key building block of the lipid bilayer -
eggs and liver - Answer Lecithin
,signaling hormones that exert local control over multiple functions in the body -
Answer Eiconasoids
Plant fats are... - Answer monosaturated and polyunsaturated fats
What breaksdown fat - Answer lingual lipase and ebner gland
stomach only breaks down butterfat
SI releases cholecystokinin when fat is here which triggers the gallbladder to
release bile
pancreatic lipase to breakdown triglycerides.
Micelles - Answer when bile salts surround monoglycerides for absorption - high
cholesterol medications get rid of bile salts so that this absorption can't happen
Is bile reabsorbed? - Answer yes - by the hepatic portal vein
What is the chemical group name for fats? - Answer Glycerides
How many essential, nonessential, and conditional amino acids are there? -
Answer 9 essential
5 nonessential if you're eating your essentials
and conditional on which disease you have that requires these
Negative vs Positive nitrogen balance - Answer negative- excreting more nitrogen
than eating (very harmful, body can feed on muscles of the body)
positive- holding more nitrogen than excreting (growth periods)
, Blood proteins - Answer Hemoglobin - oxygen carrying and Transferrin - iron
transport
Complete proteins - Answer are of animal origin and have all essential amino
acids (soy is complete even though it's a plant) (gelatin is not complete even
though it's of animal origin)
Zymogens - Answer stored protein enzymes and proenzymes
Digestion of proteins - Answer mouth - mechanical
begins in stomach -Hydrochloric acid
-HA activates pepsinogen to become pepsid
-Rennin - only in children to help digest milk
SI - food activates trypsinogen to become trypsin
-which then activates chymotrypsin(ogen) and (pro)carboxypeptidas(attacks acid
end)
-Aminopeptidase: attacks nitrogen end
- Dipeptidase: takes all remaining dipeptides to make them single amino acids
Nitrogen balance is a measure of overall - Answer protein balance
Scurvy - Answer (VitC Deficiency) - breakdown of blood vessel walls with
normal blood pressure causing blood in joints and eventually death