Through Which Mechanism Does Insulin Affect Food Intake

question 12

Multiple Choice

Through which mechanism does insulin affect food intake?

• A) It enables the intestines to digest certain types of protein that they would not otherwise be able to digest.
• B) It increases the percentage of each meal that is stored as fats.
• C) It increases the sensitivity of the taste buds to sugars.
• D) It increases the preference for salty foods.

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Definitions:

Profit Maximization

The process or strategy of adjusting production and sale operations to achieve the highest possible profit.

Production Function

Describes the relationship between inputs used in production and the output generated from those inputs.

Output

The total amount of goods or services produced by a firm or economy over a specific period.

Marginal Product

The additional output that results from using one more unit of a production input, keeping all other inputs constant.