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1
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What is nutrient balance

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Change in body stores of certain nutrients

2
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When is the body able to better the ability to withstand further changes of a nutrient

A

When it has bigger stores

3
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What can occur as a result of a change in nutrient balance

A

Overnutrition and undernutrition

4
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What is nutrient turnover

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Metabolic substrates are continually being utilised and replaced which allows for rapid adjustments to changes in metabolic states.

5
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What is nutrient flux

A

Measure of the activity of the metabolic pathway

6
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What is nutrient flux not necessarily related to

A

Size of the metabolic pool

7
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Which nutrients have faster nutrient flux

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Those with smaller metabolic pathways

8
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What is nutrient flux more to do with

A

Size of the particular pathway

9
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What are functional pools

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Direct involvement in body functions (eg in the case of glucose in body, this would be glucose)

10
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What are storage pools

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Provides buffering effect i.e. can be made available to the functional pool when and as required (in the case of glucose in body, would be liver and muscles)

11
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What are precursor pools

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Provides the substrate for nutrient/metabolite synthesis (in the case of glucose, it would be amino acids)