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The ‘first line of defense’ against eating foods that contain natural toxins is |
the biological disposition to select food on the basis of certain sensory qualities. |
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The results from studies on pregnancy and nausea suggest that |
a negative relationship exists between the amount of pregnancy sickness and the likelihood of birth defects |
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Which of the following statements concerning the relationship between innate human taste preferences and food selection is correct? |
Innate taste preferences suggest that humans may have a biological disposition to select a balanced diet because carbohydrates are sweet and fatty tasting meat contains both fat and protein. |
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Which of the following has the most important implications for people with weight problems and their ability to lose weight by increasing their level of physical activity? |
Fat is not readily converted into glucose. |
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The fact that the presence of carbohydrates in the diet are important for the digestion of meats provides evidence that humans |
need a balanced diet. |
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Psychologists distinguish between hunger and eating because |
it is eating, not hunger, that leads to being overweight, and we eat for reasons other than being hungry. |
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One reason people may gain weight as they age is |
the basal metabolism and growth rate slows but the amount of exercise doesn’t increase and the amount eaten doesn’t decrease. |
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The fact that people eat more (regardless of their initial level of hunger) when the taste (sweet, fatty) of food has been enhanced is thought to suggest |
that people often eat for the positive-incentive value of food. |
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The concept of a ‘disinhibited eater’ plays an important explanatory role in |
boundary theory. |
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The fact that being told that the preload was high in caloric content exaggerated the behavior of the restrained eaters after preloading provides support for the idea that |
how much they usually eat was under cognitive control. |
