A&P. ch23.14-23.2

The basal metabolic rate (BMR) is

70 cal/hr or 1680 cal/day in the average individual

What is meant by the term balanced diet?

A balanced diet supplies all ingredients to maintain homeostasis.

Which of the following is NOT a way your body generates or conserves heat?

Decreased metabolic rate

Why is hypervitaminosis involving water-soluble vitamins relatively uncommon?

Excessive amounts of these vitamins are readily excreted in the urine.

Why are minerals, vitamins, and water classified as essential nutrients?

The body cannot synthesize these nutrients in sufficient quantities.

Milk and eggs are complete proteins because they contain

all the essential amino acids in sufficient quantities

The minimum resting energy expenditure of an awake, alert person is the

basal metabolic rate

What is a complete protein?

contains all essential amino acids

The flow and transformation of energy is called

energetics

The mechanism of heat loss that involves the skin and alveoli of the lung is

evaporation

The most important factor of good nutrition is obtaining nutrients

in sufficient quantities and qualities

Before the large vitamin B12 molecule can be absorbed, it must be bound to

intrinsic factor

What is the term for the direct transfer of heat energy through physical contact?

Conduction

During open-heart surgery, which of the following thermoregulatory changes is induced in the patient's body?

Hypothermia

NAD, a key coenzyme used in the process of producing ATP, is produced from which water-soluble vitamin?

Niacin

Which vitamin is required for the synthesis of visual pigments?

Vitamin A

An individual's basal metabolic rate ideally represents

the minimum resting energy expenditure of an awake, alert person