If You Go on a Fad Diet and Eat Only

question 152

Multiple Choice

If you go on a fad diet and eat only grapefruit, you will eventually begin to feel ill. In time, associating your discomfort with grapefruit may restore nutritional balance to your diet by creating

• A)a taste aversion.
• B)homeostasis.
• C)acquired anorexia.
• D)systematic desensitization.

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Definitions:

Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potentials

Negative changes in the membrane potential of a postsynaptic neuron, making it less likely to generate an action potential, hence inhibiting the neuron.

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Comprising the brain and spinal cord, it processes information and is the primary control center for the body.

Hormones

Chemical messengers produced by the endocrine glands, these compounds regulate various physiological functions and behaviors.

Neurotransmitters

Chemical messengers in the body that transmit signals from nerve cells to target cells.