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Nutrients
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Anatomy & Physiology
Kilocalories
100
Nutrients that the body cannot produce on its own and must obtain from food for maintenance and repair.
What is essential nutrients?
100
This type of food protects against heart disease and reduces the risk of some hormone sensitive cancers.
What are whole flaxseeds?
100
The system that is being tested when checking if the patient is alert and oriented.
What is the nervous system?
100
The process of breaking down food mechanically and chemically in the GI tract.
What is digestion?
100
Often the word we use to describe a kilocalorie.
What is a calorie?
200
Nutrients that are not required from food because the body can produce its own.
What is nonessential nutrients?
200
Monounsaturated, Polyunsaturated and Saturated are the three different types.
What are the different types of fat found in foods?
200
The part of every health assessment that measure a patient's blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate and peripheral pulses.
What are vital signs?
200
The place where food goes after it has been absorbed into the bloodstream that further breaks down fats from foods.
What is the liver?
200
Kilocalorie is a unit of measurement of the amount of ____ needed to raise the temperature of a kilogram of water 1 degree Celsius.
What is heat?
300
The type of nutrient that is responsible for transportation of substances between cells in every tissue of the body.
What is water?
300
The standards of nutrient levels that are sufficient to meet the needs of all individuals based on age, lifestyle or gender.
What is the Recommended Daily Allowance?
300
The type of information an alert and oriented person would tell you during an assessment.
What is subjective information?
300
The glands responsible for moistening food for swallowing and convert starch to sugar.
What are the salivary glands?
300
Determined by its content of protein, carbohydrates and fat.
What is a food kilocalorie value?
400
The type of nutrient that is responsible for regulating chemical processes in the body.
What are minerals?
400
The tool that helps consumers make healthy choices when buying food.
What is the Dietary Label?
400
The type of information that would be gathered from an assessment without talking to the patient.
What is objective information?
400
The organ where most of digestion takes place.
What is the small intestine?
400
The four components do not provide any kilocalories.
What are the effects of water, fiber, vitamins and minerals on kilocalories?
500
The type of nutrient that is responsible for generating energy and maintenance of the body.
What are vitamins?
500
10-19% of the daily value for a particular vitamin, mineral or fiber.
What is a "good source"?
500
The type of assessment that cannot be preformed or obtained without the help of certain tools and processes.
What are anthropometric measurements?
500
The organ that is responsible for the production and storing of bile until it is needed in the small intestine.
What is the gallbladder?
500
The recommended amount of calories from fat we get from food.
What is less than 1/3 of fat calories?