Individuals who are able to lose weight and successfully keep it off for at least a year typically
a. engage in 30 minutes of physical exercise daily.
b. weigh themselves no more often than once a month.
c. eat a diet with high energy density.
d. eat a diet with low nutrient density.
e. limit television to less than 10 hours per week.
Q. 2What is the chief reason that health-care professionals advise people to engage only in low-to-moderate intensity activities for prolonged duration rather than more intense, shorter routines?
a. The cost is lower.
b. Boredom is reduced.
c. Compliance is better.
d. Monitoring time is diminished.
e. The overall results are more dramatic.
Q. 3What is the principal reason that appetite is turned off immediately after a person finishes an intense workout?
a. The feeling of thirst overpowers the desire for food.
b. The elevated blood lactate level antagonizes ghrelin.
c. Glucose and fatty acids are still abundant in the blood.
d. The senses of smell and taste are suppressed for at least one hour.
e. Leptin secretion is markedly increased.
Q. 4Which of the following is a relation of spot reducing to exercise?
a. No exercise can target fat removal from any specific area of the body.
b. Upper body fat is mostly unaffected by exercising lower body muscles.
c. Lower body fat in women is depleted at a faster rate than abdominal fat.
d. Abdominal fat in men is released more readily with anaerobic exercise.
e. Spot reducing works on cellulite but not on other fat.
Q. 5Which of the following is a feature of the body's response to engaging in physical activity?
a. After an intense and vigorous workout, metabolism remains elevated for several hours.
b. Lower body fat is more readily lost from vigorous exercises that work primarily the hip and leg muscles.
c. Blood glucose and fatty acid levels are low immediately after working out, but thereafter recover on their own.
d. After an intense workout, most people immediately feel the urge to eat a large carbohydrate meal to replace glycogen stores.
e. After intense exercise, gherlin secretion is typically elevated and remains so for several hours.
Q. 6A typical person who burns 200 kcalories during a 2-mile run would, in the postexercise period, burn an additional
a. 10 kcalories.
b. 20 kcalories.
c. 30 kcalories.
d. 40 kcalories.
e. 50 kcalories.
Q. 7Which of the following is a feature of the use of artificial sweeteners to control body weight?
a. They may lead to weight gain in some people.
b. They automatically lower a person's daily energy intake.
c. They delay gastric emptying time, leading to enhanced satiety.
d. They trigger epinephrine secretion, which suppresses appetite.
e. They increase release of endogenous opiates.
ANS: A
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