Nutrition Basics
This term describes the body's ability to control life events and experiences.
What is locus of control?
This muscular tube transports food from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
A lifestyle that embraces our level of health.
What is wellness?
This type of malnutrition is caused by an inadequate intake of nutrients.
What is primary malnutrition?
This is required by the Joint Commission upon hospital admission within 24 hours.
What is a nutritional screening?
This type of prevention involves activities to avert the initial development of disease.
What is primary prevention?
The two primary methods of nutrient absorption in the small intestine.
What are diffusion and active transport.
An industrially formulated edible substance derived from natural food or synthesized from other organic compounds.
What is an ultra-processed food?
This is the perception that outside forces have power over one's life events.
What is an external locus of control?
This comprehensive assessment is conducted by a registered dietician.
What is a nutritional assessment?
This classification system categorizes foods based on their level of processing.
What is the NOVA classification?
This organ is the major site of digestion and nutrient absorption.
What is the small intestine?
This contains natural micronutrients, phytochemicals, vitamins, minerals, and fiber.
What is real food?
This term describes the body's synthesis process where substances like bone or muscle tissue are formed.
What is anabolism?
These are the 4 key areas of data gathered in the ABCD approach.
What are anthropometrics, biochemical tests, clinical observations, and dietary evaluation?
The most important function fo the villi of the small intestine.
What is to increase the surface area for the absorption of nutrients.
This process involves the breakdown of food components into smaller particles.
What is catabolism?
This type of malnutrition is caused by disease or iatrogenic effects.
What is secondary malnutrition?
This part of the digestive system is responsible for the final absorption of water and some minerals.
What is the large intestine?
This type of eating pattern creates an imbalanced energy/nutrient intake.
What is malnutrition?
This term comares the nutrient content of food with the calories it contains.
What is nutrient density?
The average amount of time it takes from food to go from ingestion to elimination.
What is 16-27 hours?
The 6 dimensions of health.
What are physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental?
The name of the dietary guidelines created by the US government every 5 years.
What is the "Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025"?
The most important question the nurse can ask a patient of any ethnic background regarding their food preferences.
What types of foods to you prefer to eat?