Nutrition Chapter 9

which of the following is known to promote fat storage in adipocytes?

lipoprotein lipase

As a general rule, what minimum number of kcalories per day is necessary to ensure nutritional adequacy in an eating plan intended to reduce body weight?

1200

Glennon is a client who communicates a strong desire to lose weight fast. You explain the importance of setting reasonable weight loss goals to her. Which of the following is NOT a reasonable weight loss goal?

20% of body weight in 6 months

A typical person who burns 200 kcalories during a 2-mile run would, in the postexercise period, burn an additional

30 kcalories 200 kcals (15%) = 30 kcals

In a weight reduction regimen, the most realistic time frame for losing 10% of initial body weight is

6 months

To help prevent weight gain/promote weight maintenance, the DRI suggests daily, moderately intense, physical activities totaling

60 minutes

Aggressive treatment should be discussed with people who are obese if they have which of the following risk factors?

BMI >/= 40

What is the chief factor that determines a person's susceptibility to obesity?

Genetics and environment

Which of the following is a characteristic of fat cell development?

More and larger fat cells are found in obese people compared with healthy weight persons

John is 5'10" and weighs 228 lbs. How would you classify John's BMI status?

Obese

Which of the following defines the body's set point

Point above which the bend tends to lose weight and below which it tends to gain weight

All of the following are associations between the environment and food intake except

distractions generally appear to reduce food intake

What are the observed effects of sleep deprivation on leptin and ghrelin?

leptin decreases while ghrelin increases

Adverse effects on organs, such as the liver, from the presence of excess body fat is known as

lipotoxicitiy

Because obesity apparently has many causes, even in an individual, the best approach seems to be

prevention

An example of a behavior modification technique for weight control is to

self-monitoring eating habits and emotions around eating

The most likely explanation for why women readily store fat around the hips whereas men readily store fat around the abdomen is gender differences in

the acitivity of lipoprotein lipase

All of the following describe the behavior of fat cells except

the number decreases when fat is lost from the body

Tom was overweight when he was 13. During puberty he continued to gain weight steadily until at age 23, when he decided to lose weight. Tom successfully lost 50 pounds. Which of the following most likely happened to Tom's fat cells?

they shrank in size but did not decrease in number

Bariatrics is a field of medicine that specializes in the treatment of

obesity