American Diet
Nutrition Basics
Dietary Planning Basics
Nutrition Assessment
Digestion
100
Heart Disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and kidney disease
What diseases are linked with nutrition?
100
The physiological drive for food is
What is hunger?
100
These three words describe the concept of a "healthy" diet.
What are balance (proportionality), moderation, and variety?
100
You go to the doctor and they take a blood sample to assess your cholesterol levels - this is an example of this type of assessment.
What is biochemical assessment?
100
Digestion begins here.
What is the mouth?
200
Typical North American diet falls into the ADMR range for each macronutrient. A key difference between North American Diet vs. Other Parts of the world is our relatively high intake of this particular macronutrient.
What is animal protein?
200
Carbohydrate, Lipids, Proteins, Vitamins, Minerals, and Water
What are the six classes of nutrients?
200
These guidelines recommend that adults get 150 min/week of exercise.
What are the Physical Activity Guidelines of 2008?
200
The nurse measures your height and weight. This is an example of this assessment.
What is anthropometrics?
200
The term used to describe the partially digested food that passes from the stomach to the small intestine.
What is chyme?
300
The goal of this government direct program includes higher quality, longer lives, health equity, and providing good social and physical environments.
What is Health People 2020?
300
Chemicals found in fruits and vegetables, which are not considered essential nutrients, but may provide health benefits include fighting off cancer, inflammation, oxidative stress, and chronic diseases.
What are phytochemicals?
300
Failing health related to overconsumption or underconsumption of a nutrient.
What is malnutrition?
300
A dietitian advises here client to reduce caloric intake by 500 kcal/day (3,500 kcal per week) resulting in a 1 pound weight loss.
What is safe weight loss?
300
Water and minerals and a few vitamins are absorbed here.
What is large intestine?
400
Several guidelines have stated these key themes for improving the quality of diet.
What are increasing nutrient-dense foods/drinks and limit intakes of saturated fats, added sugars, sodium, and/or alcohol?
400
Skim Milk contains more calcium per kcal than whole fat milk. This describes what concept.
What is nutrient density?
400
This represents amount of nutrient needed to meet 97 to 98% of the population and is based on scientific evidence.
What is RDA?
400
NSAIDS, Antibiotics and Medication, and this bacteria are linked to Peptic Ulcers.
What is H. pylori?
400
This is stored in the Gall Bladder and produced by the liver - it is used to emulsify fat.
What is bile?
500
For men, this is defined as 2 drinks/day on average and women 1 drink/day on average?
What is drinking in moderation?
500
This inaccurately describes the phenomena of weight gain during 1st year of college.
What is Freshman Fifteen?
500
This represents the danger zone for a nutrient - consuming a nutrient at this level or higher can have toxic effects.
What is UL?
500
A client is meeting with a dietitian and sees the following on a label "calcium is good for bone health". The client asks what type of claim is this?
What is nutrient claim?
500
This gate doesn't close between the esophagus and stomach resulting in heart burn.
What is lower esophageal sphincter?
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