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Your class number and section and Spring 2026
Someone tried a diet and after a few weeks they post comments saying they never felt better.
This "test" is potentially faulty because of which of the biases? Name one.
Sample Size Bias.
Recall Bias.
Confirmation Bias.
Food companies hijack their customers instincts to crave another purchase by adding:
Sugars, Salts, Fats.
Which of the vitamin supplements are easiest to take to toxic levels?
The most healthiest diet plan of them all is:
The Mediterrannean Diet:
Eat more fresh vegetables.whole grains, nuts
Get most fats from olives and nuts.
Reduce red meat, alcohol, butter, carbohydrates
Get more exercise. Eat with with friends and family
Is it allowed to submit extra credit assignments after the due date?
No late submissions allowed for extra credits.
Double Points: When are all extra credits due?
If you have no medical conditions and no physical complaints, how often should you get a medical checkup?
Once a year.
To detect anything that's developing in you unnoticed.
Why are sugars, salts and fats bad for us?
They are not bad in moderate amounts.
Too many of us eat too much of them.
PORTION CONTROL!
The best personal health plan is:
Sustainable. Affordable. Realistic.
Start slow, increase slowly.
When you fail or cheat, don't give up. Just resume.
How can parents can teach their children good nutrition and physical activity habits that will stick with them through adulthood?
Include children in food decision and preparation.
Lead by example.
Set rules and stick to them.
When is our next in-person meeting?
No more in person meetings.
The final exam is online on brightspace.
It has been an honor being your teacher.Best of luck in your future.
- Moon
The DV% number on the nutrition label represents:
The percent of the total amount of that nutrition that is recommended for the day.
The best way for young people to reduce their risk of colon cancer is:
Eat the right amounts of fiber.
Avoid ultra-processed foods.
Young adults obsess over their place in their peer group which can lead them to what kind(s) of malnutrition:
Risky behavior, over eating, eating disorders, body dysmorphias, orthorexia, extreme fad diets, taking hormones without supervision.
And now: Looks Maxxing
What is the problem with white rice, white bread and white pasta as they are sold in the store?
They have had all the other nutritious components stripped from them. They are pure carbohydrate.
"Empty Calories".
What is the maximum penalty for late submissions?
(About a month late.)
When a news article uses words like "linked to", "associated with", what kind of research study are they likely writing about?
Observational studies. They cannot prove cause.
Don't radically change your life until future research can be completed.
A mental health disorder where a person believes their body is still insufficiently muscular despite excessively exercising at the cost to the rest of their life's responsibilities.
Muscle Dysmorphia / Body Dysmorphia
Why are chronic diseases so difficult to control?
Damage from decisions in the first half of life are not noticed by the patient. They feel nothing wrong. Until its too late to prevent it.
Also, exercising and eating right is difficult because of reality.
Also, food companies find ways to make products irresistable.
The elderly are especially at risk of undernutrition because of:
Decreased sense of taste. Lower appetite.
Reduced finances.
Reduced ability to feed themselves.
Increasing isolation results in less reason to celebrate with food.
Is it ok to use artificial intelligence or another person to help you answer test questions?
No. This it is prohibited in this class syllabus and this college's community guidelines.
When a person believes strong enough that something will harm them, that when they take the therapy they really feel worse is called:
NOCEBO
The opposite of Placebo.
A 20 year old man wants to calculate his "Maximum Heart Rate" for his cardio exercises.
The formula he should use is:
Males: 220-age
Females: 226-age
Your friend who is a diabetic is suddenly unable to answer their: Name, Place, Time or what's going on. What should you do?
*Call 911* (Must say this)
Do not help them take their diabetes medication.
Help them drink sugar but only if they won't choke on it.
Most of the popular or unusual diets actually have which of the following in common that is likely causing most of the positive benefits:
They all quietly require you to:
Exercise more, Eat less carbohydrates.