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