Nutritional deficiencies are common in alcoholics. Provide two different reasons for this
What will be an ideal response?
Alcohol is high in calories, but has no real nutritional value. Thus, the alcoholic may not eat properly. Alcohol also compromises the body's ability to use ingested nutrients, so even if food high in nutritional value is ingested, the nutrients will not be fully available to the body.
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A fundamental difference between romantic love and companionate love is whether an intimate relationship is built primarily on:
A. Passion or friendship. B. Intimacy or commitment. C. Self-interest or compromise. D. Emotion or realism.
In research cited in the textbook, Greitemeyer (2009) exposed participants to either neutral or pro social messages and assessed their pro social thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In this research, participants exposed to neutral messages were in the ____ group.
a) control b) dependent c) experimental d) independant