Dietary Balances; Regulation of feeding; Obesity and starvation; Vitamins and minerals - Regulation of food intake and energy storage
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The hypothalamus contains hunger and satiety centers. Which part serves as a feeding center, which part causes lack of desire for food and which part serves as a major satiety center?
- Lateral hypothalamus
- The entromedial nuclei of the hypothalamus
Which neuron is the main target for several hormones that decrease feeding and which neuron is the main target for several hormones that increase feeding?And what substance do they produce?
- Increase feeding: AGRP/NPY
What are the main inhibiting signalers and stimulating signalers for the control of food intake?
- Leptin
- CCK (gastrointestinal hormone secreted in response to fat and proteins)
- PYY (gastrointestinal hormone)
- Insulin
- Stretch receptors in the stomach through the vagus nerve
- Oral receptors meter food intake
Stimulating:
- Ghrelin (gastrointestinal/stomach hormone)
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When is a person clinically overweight or obese according to their BMI?
- 25 - 29,9 --> overweight
- > 30 --> obese
What is the difference between hyperplastic obesity and hypertrophic obsesity?
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