Question 1
pts
True or False: Taste and texture are often the 2 most important reasons
specific foods are consumed in North America.
True
False
Question 2
Not yet graded / 4 pts
True or False. If false, explain why it is false.
Nutrition is the science that links foods to health and weight.
Your Answer:
False Nutrition is the science that links foods to health and disease
False: Nutrition is the science that links foods to health and disease.
Question 3
Not yet graded / 4 pts
Explain the difference between Internal and External drives that influence our
desire to eat.
Your Answer:
Internal drives are things such as hunger, we physically feel a pain of hunger
often a growling or guggerling sound in our stomach that influences our desire to
eat. An external drive is appetite, it is a postive sensation that causes us to eat
without actuall being hungry. such as smelling fresh baked cookies, its a sensory
that is driving us to want to eat.
The internal drive is hunger and is associated with negative sensations like
churning, growling and pain in the stomach. External drives have to do with
appetite and are associated with positive food sensations and lead us to eat when
we are not hungry.
Question 4
Not yet graded / 4 pts
List 3 hormones associated with satiety. Explain how at least 1 works
to decrease hunger.
Your Answer:
3 hormones that are associated with satiety are leptin, cholescykin, seratonin.
Leptin alerts the brain to shut off the satiety center when consuming a meal
, Leptin -alerts the brain to turn off the hunger center and activates the satiety
center when consuming a meal.
Serotonin - affects motility and communicates with the brain for satiety.
Cholecystokinin (CCK) - slows down stomach emptying to give a feeling of
fullness (also increases bile production and release from gallbladder).
Question 5
Not yet graded / 4 pts
A is a substance that can promote growth and development, maintain
tissues and cells, fuel the body for physical and metabolic work, or regulate a
body process.
Your Answer:
nutrient
Nutrient
Question 6
pts
Match the following:
Macronutrient
needed in large amounts in the body
Micronutrient
needed in small amounts in the body
Organic
a compound that contains carbon and hydrogen
Inorganic
any substance that does not contain carbon
Question 7
Not yet graded / 4 pts
True or False. If false, explain why it is false.
A mineral is an organic micronutrient that regulates body processes and
provides structure.
Your Answer:
False. A vitamin is an organic micronutrients that regulates body processes
and provides structure
pts
True or False: Taste and texture are often the 2 most important reasons
specific foods are consumed in North America.
True
False
Question 2
Not yet graded / 4 pts
True or False. If false, explain why it is false.
Nutrition is the science that links foods to health and weight.
Your Answer:
False Nutrition is the science that links foods to health and disease
False: Nutrition is the science that links foods to health and disease.
Question 3
Not yet graded / 4 pts
Explain the difference between Internal and External drives that influence our
desire to eat.
Your Answer:
Internal drives are things such as hunger, we physically feel a pain of hunger
often a growling or guggerling sound in our stomach that influences our desire to
eat. An external drive is appetite, it is a postive sensation that causes us to eat
without actuall being hungry. such as smelling fresh baked cookies, its a sensory
that is driving us to want to eat.
The internal drive is hunger and is associated with negative sensations like
churning, growling and pain in the stomach. External drives have to do with
appetite and are associated with positive food sensations and lead us to eat when
we are not hungry.
Question 4
Not yet graded / 4 pts
List 3 hormones associated with satiety. Explain how at least 1 works
to decrease hunger.
Your Answer:
3 hormones that are associated with satiety are leptin, cholescykin, seratonin.
Leptin alerts the brain to shut off the satiety center when consuming a meal
, Leptin -alerts the brain to turn off the hunger center and activates the satiety
center when consuming a meal.
Serotonin - affects motility and communicates with the brain for satiety.
Cholecystokinin (CCK) - slows down stomach emptying to give a feeling of
fullness (also increases bile production and release from gallbladder).
Question 5
Not yet graded / 4 pts
A is a substance that can promote growth and development, maintain
tissues and cells, fuel the body for physical and metabolic work, or regulate a
body process.
Your Answer:
nutrient
Nutrient
Question 6
pts
Match the following:
Macronutrient
needed in large amounts in the body
Micronutrient
needed in small amounts in the body
Organic
a compound that contains carbon and hydrogen
Inorganic
any substance that does not contain carbon
Question 7
Not yet graded / 4 pts
True or False. If false, explain why it is false.
A mineral is an organic micronutrient that regulates body processes and
provides structure.
Your Answer:
False. A vitamin is an organic micronutrients that regulates body processes
and provides structure
