Author Question: The height-to-weight ratio used to identify healthy weight, underweight, overweight, and obesity is ... (Read 223 times)

azncindy619 · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

The height-to-weight ratio used to identify healthy weight, underweight, overweight, and obesity is referred to as the ____.

a. personal mass index
b. personal density index
c. body mass index
d. body density index

Question 2

Derek, a neuropsychology graduate student, works in a behavioral eating research lab. Derek suggests to the lead investigator that injecting people with leptin will help them lose weight. His idea is quickly shot down by a classmate, who states, Not so fast, Derek; ____.

a. as leptin increases, glucose absorption decreases
b. high levels of leptin inhibit insulin synthesis
c. leptin is metabolized by fat cells quicker than it is produced
d. obese humans already have high levels of circulating leptin