If a Person Uses Fasting to Lose Weight, How Will

question 63

Multiple Choice

If a person uses fasting to lose weight, how will his or her body react?

• A) increase its basal metabolism to burn energy
• B) break down fat into ketone bodies to provide fuel
• C) become internally cleansed
• D) conserve its minerals by restricting their excretion

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Definitions:

Levorotatory

Describing a substance that rotates the plane of polarized light to the left or counterclockwise.

Racemic Mixture

A mixture containing equal amounts of left- and right-handed enantiomers of a chiral molecule, making it optically inactive.

Enantiomer

One of a pair of molecules that are mirror images of each other and cannot be superimposed, often possessing different biological activities.

Polarimetry Tube

A laboratory device used to measure the rotation of polarized light as it passes through optically active substances.