Exam 8: Managing Your Weight

On average, what percentage of our daily calories comes from sweets, sodas and fruit drinks, alcoholic beverages, and salty snacks?

Define set point; basal and resting metabolic rate; and positive, negative, and isocaloric balance, and explain how all of these factors must be taken into consideration when planning a weight-loss program.

Underweight people have a higher death rate than normal-weight or overweight people.

A syndrome characterized by negative self-perception in which a person becomes obsessed with a physical defect is known as