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HEHP exam 2
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20
Health Care
Undergraduate 2
03/04/2012

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Term
Important of nutritional practice
Definition
-build, rebuild tissue
-build RBC to carry oxygen, carbon dioxide
-build WBC to fight infection
- Accumulate energy stores to sustain vigorous activity
Term
Nutrition
Definition
relationship between physiological function and essential elements of food eaten
Term
Water
Definition
live months without food, few days without water.
cell require water to carry out bodily function
water is 2/3 of body weight, 3/4 of active tissue
water is in every healing process
regulate body temperature
lost 10% = bodily disorder
lost 20% = death
drink 5-8 class a day
increase water during illness rapidly eliminate injury
Term
average calories
Definition
Male = 2600
female 1900
kids 2500-3000
athlete 3500, 4500 in season
Term
nutrients
Definition
constituents of food that sustain humans physiologically: proteins, carbohydrate, fat vitamin, mineral, water
Term
calorie
Definition
unite of measure indicate amount of energy obtained from a particular food
Term
proteins
Definition
constituents of nearly all body cells. repair bone, muscle,skin, blood. element for antibodies, enzymes, hormones
Term
amino acid
Definition
nitrogen containing building blocks of protein
Term
essential amino acid
Definition
nine amino acid that must obtained from food to ensure health
Term
carbohydrate
Definition
nutrients that supply body with glucose, energy used to sustain normal activity
Term
monosaccharide
Definition
simple sugar contain only one molecule of sugar
Term
disaccharide
Definition
conbination of two monsaccharide
Term
polysaccharide
Definition
complex carbonhydrate combination of long chain of saccharide
Term
starch
Definition
polysaccharide is storage form of glucoses in plants
Term
glycogen
Definition
polysaccharide form which glucoses is stored in live, to lesser extent, in muscles.
Term
fiber
Definition
indigestible portion of plant food that help move food through the digestive system and soften stool by absorbing water
Term
body fat
Definition
men 12%
woment 18%
Term
metabolism slow
Definition
about 26-40years
Term
american overweight
Definition
60% in middle age
Term
obese person carry more than
Definition
20% excess of odipose tissue
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