Chapter 8
7 calories per gram
What is alcohol?
Where manufacturers must report all serious dietary supplement adverse events.
What is the FDA?
A website that ends in .org, .edu, or .gov.
What is a reliable source?
Foods that are eaten often but not daily.
What are secondary foods?
A weight where we feel comfortable and is correlated to good health.
What is a normal desirable weight?
These many calories equal one pound of body fat.
What is 3500?
Parts of the nutrition fact label noted on the front of the package.
What are the Facts Upfront?
This term promotes food as being better or providing health benefits beyond basic nutrition.
What is a functional food?
This age group when coming from another culture or that has switched cultures is very quick to adapt and change.
What are school-age children?
What is norovirus?
A BMI greater than or equal to 25.
What is an overweight status?
Ingredients of packaged (canned, bottled, boxed, and wrapped) foods must be listed in this order.
What is descending order by weight?
This process is used on foods to kill organisms and microbes to eliminate foodborne illness.
What is radiation?
The ability of systems to provide care to patients with diverse values, beliefs, and behaviors.
What is cultural competence?
Offer the possibility that a food may improve or support body function.
What is a structure/function claim?
The amount of calories required to fuel the involuntary activities of the body.
What is basal metabolism?
Regulations require this label for a product that contains <20 ppm of gluten.
What is gluten free?
This symbol is seen on foods that have been irradiated.
What is a radura?
An item that is readily available, safe, and nutritious enough to support reproduction
What is food?
A legally defined claim such as “calcium may help prevent osteoporosis.”
What is a health claim?
It is clinically defined as a waist circumference greater than or equal to 40 inches in men and greater than or equal to 35 inches in women.
What is abdominal fat?
Groups who should not use herbs and other botanical supplements.
What are pregnant women, lactating women, and children under 6?
These groups of people are particularly vulnerable to food-borne illness.
Infants, pregnant women, older adults, and people with compromised immune systems (people with AIDS or cancer, organ transplant recipients, or people taking corticosteroids).
A common health condition among Latin Americans.
What is lactose intolerance?
This is where fat is distributed when a client has a pear-shaped body.
What are the lower extremeties?