Key Nutrients
Food Choices
Dietary Reference Intakes
Healthy Diets
Principles and Guidelines
100

The 3 energy yielding nutrients

What are carbs, fats, and proteins?

100

Eating because of stress, anxiety, depression, or boredom

What is emotional eating?

100
DRI applies to this type of person

What is healthy?

100

A person who eats no meat products

What is a vegetarian?

100

Sufficient energy and nutrients for healthy people

What is adequacy?

200

The nutrient vital for transportation of materials throughout the body

What is water?

200

Eating the food based on taste and likeness

What is personal preference?

200

Point where nutrient is likely to be toxic

What is Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (UL)?

200

A person who eats no animal products such as meat, eggs, cheese, dairy

What is a vegan?

200

Enough, but not too much of different food types

What is balance?

300

The organic nutrients

What are carbs, lipids, proteins, and vitamins?

300

Eating a certain food because of good memories or not eating a certain food because of bad memories linked with it

What is positive and negative association?

300

Average dietary energy intake needed to maintain energy balance

What is Estimated Energy Requirement (EER)?

300

5 grams or more of fiber per serving

What is high fiber?

300

Eating a wide selection of foods within and among the major food groups

What is variety?

400

The energy in 1 gram of fat

What is 9 kcal?

400

Eating something because it is easy or cheap

What is availability, convenience, or economy? 

400
The ranges for adequate energy and nutrients

What is Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Ranges (AMDR)?

400

Less than 10 grams of fat, 4.5 grams of saturated fat and trans fat combined, and 95 milligrams of cholesterol per serving

What is lean?

400

Energy in = energy out

What is kcalorie (energy) control?

500

The number of indispensable nutrients

What is 40?

500

Eating something based on politics, religion, or environmental concerns

What is values?

500

The percent range acceptable in kcals for daily protein intake

What is 10-35% kcals?

500

Less than 2 milligrams of cholesterol per serving and 2 grams or less of saturated fat and trans fat combined per serving

What is cholesterol-free?

500

A measure of the nutrients a food provides relative to the energy it provides

What is nutrient density?

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