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Chapter 17: Nutrition, Metabolism, and Body Temperature Regulation


Chapter Objectives

Chapter 17: Nutrition, Metabolism, and Body Temperature Regulation

After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

  1. Define nutrition, essential nutrient, and kilocalorie.

  2. For carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins describe their dietary sources, their uses in the body, and the daily recommended amounts of each in the diet.

  3. List the common vitamins and minerals and give a function for each.

  4. Define metabolism, anabolism, and catabolism.

  5. List three ways in which enzyme activity is controlled.

  6. Describe glycolysis and name its products.

  7. Describe the citric acid cycle and its products.

  8. Describe the electron-transport chain and how ATP is produced in the process.

  9. Explain how two ATP molecules are produced in anaerobic respiration and 38 ATP molecules are produced in aerobic respiration from one molecule of glucose.

  10. Describe the basic steps involved in using lipids and amino acids as an energy source.

  11. Differentiate between the absorptive and postabsorptive metabolic states.

  12. Define metabolic rate.

  13. Describe heat production and regulation in the body.

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