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Fad Diets: fashionable diets, often highly controversial. These are heavily hyped with spectacular claims but contain dubious nutritional and weight loss advice
Fat Grams: a measurement of the fat content of a food. One gram of fat = 9 kcalories
Fat Soluble: able to be dissolved in fat
Fats: one of the three main classes of foods and a source of energy in the body. Fats help the body use up vitamins and keep the skin healthy
Fat Atrophy: hollows or lumps occurring at the sites of repeated insulin injection
Fartlek: Swedish for "speed play", a type of loosely structured interval training for runners, cyclists, and in-line skaters.
Fastin: a brand name for Phentermine previously manufactured by Smith Kline Beecham
FDA: Food and Drug Administration
Fibre: food substances found in cereals, fruits and vegetables that cannot be digested but help the intestines function
Flexibility: the range of motion around a joint
Fluorescein: a harmless yellow colored dye used to outline the vessels of the eye
Food Pyramid: a graphic aid to a healthy diet. Foodstuffs at the bottom of the pyramid are of low calorie while food at the top are of high calorie and should not be consumed often
Fortified Foods: those that have had extra vitamins and minerals added to them
Free weights: weights not attached to a machine nor driven by cables or chains
Fructosamine: a glycated protein that measures glucose control over the preceding 2-3 weeks
Fructose: a sugar found in fruits. |
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