Some Athletes Take Chromium Supplements to

question 105

Multiple Choice

Some athletes take chromium supplements to

• A) conserve glycogen stores and delay fatigue during exercise.
• B) aid in delivering oxygen to working muscles during exercise.
• C) increase muscle mass and strength and decrease body fat.
• D) increase the use of fatty acids during endurance exercise.

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Definitions:

Placebo Effect

A phenomenon in which a person's condition improves because they believe they are receiving treatment, even though the treatment has no therapeutic value.

Participant Bias

A type of bias that occurs when participants in a study act or respond differently because they know they are being observed.

Double-Blind Experiments

Double-Blind Experiments are studies where neither the participants nor the experimenters know who has been administered the treatment or the placebo, reducing biases.

Experimenter Bias

The influence of the experimenter’s expectations on the outcome of research.