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HNSC 1200 Final Exam Practice Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
Definition of Food - ✔️✔️Any solid or liquid material consumed by a living organisms
supplies energy, carrier of nutrients, can be processed or raw
Nutrients - ✔️✔️Substances body uses for growth, maintenance, and tissue repair
Components of Food - ✔️✔️Carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, water, vitamins, minerals,
phytochemicals, other compounds like caffeine
Energy Providing Nutrients - ✔️✔️Carbohydrates (4 Cal/g), fats (9 Cal/g), proteins (4
Cal/g)
Non-Energy Containing Nutrients - ✔️✔️Water, vitamins, minerals
Essential Nutrients - ✔️✔️Nutrients body cannot make itself.
e.g. Minerals, essential fatty acids linoleic and linolenic acid
Conditionally Essential Nutrients - ✔️✔️Nutrients that the body cannot make enough of to
meet requirements for health
e.g. amino acid histidine during periods of growth
Non-Essential Nutrients - ✔️✔️Nutrients body can make itself, not reliant on food intake
e.g. some amino acids and some fatty acids
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Kilocalorie or Calorie - ✔️✔️Amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of
1L of water by 1°C
calorie - ✔️✔️Amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of 1mL of water by
1°C
Calories in Alcohol - ✔️✔️7 Cal/g
Note: Alcohol is not a nutrient
Glycogen - ✔️✔️Stored in liver and muscles
Protein (enzyme related) - ✔️✔️Act as enzymes
Hormones - ✔️✔️Chemical messengers, some are proteins
Fat - ✔️✔️Required for hormones; gives energy, can store an unlimited amount as
opposed to limited carbohydrate storage, and protects organs
Minerals - ✔️✔️Need a little iron (protein won't do its job w/o it, otherwise anemia occurs)
and activate enzymes (co-factors)
Phytochemicals - ✔️✔️Derived from plats, support health beyond traditional roles of
traditional nutrients
NOTE: food is best and safest source of phytochemicals, not supplements
Functional Foods - ✔️✔️Foods that contain nutraceuticals
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e.g. soy-based foods to reduce hypertension
Nutraceuticals - ✔️✔️Products isolated of purified from food sold in medicinal form that
has physiological benefits or provide protection against disease; rarely from animals
e.g. isoflavones from soybeans (mimics estrogen)
Nutrition Labeling - ✔️✔️Dec. 2005, standardized labeling. Note: that almost all
prepackaged foods have nutrition facts except fresh fruit, veggies, raw meat, poultry,
fish, seafood, foods made at store, foods w/ little nutrients, and alcohol.
Things on Nutrition Facts Panel - ✔️✔️Amount, % daily value, calories, fat (saturated and
trans), cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrate, fibre, sugars, protein, vitamin a, vitamin c,
calcium, iron
Descriptive Studies - ✔️✔️Can generate hypotheses, focus on an individual or population
Population or Correlational Study - ✔️✔️Uses whole populations to compare event
frequencies in different groups in same period or same group in different time periods
Case Report - ✔️✔️Detailed report on a single patient, usually for rare diseases
Case Series - ✔️✔️Multiple case reports w/ same conditions
Analytical Studies - ✔️✔️Can test a specific hypothesis, can include observational and
intervention studies
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Case-Control Study - ✔️✔️Case series of individuals who have disease of interest and
group of similar individuals with no disease/exposure
Cohort Study - ✔️✔️Classifies participants on presence/absence of exposure
Intervention Study - ✔️✔️Participants assigned one or more interventions so that
researchers can study the effect
Food Choices - ✔️✔️Availability, cost, convenience, emotional, social and cultural factors,
media advertising, habit, positive association, weight, nutritional value
Food Insecurity - ✔️✔️Limited or uncertain access to foods of sufficient quality or quantity
to sustain a healthy life.
NOTE: access to foods of sufficient quantity means that person may have enough
calories but not necessarily enough nutrients
Food Security - ✔️✔️Access by all people at all times to nutritious and safe food
Four Pillars of Food Security - ✔️✔️Availability (Is there food?), Accessibility (Can you
buy the food?), Adequacy (Is the food healthy enough?), Acceptability (Is the food
socially acceptable?)
Hunger in Developed Countries - ✔️✔️Lack of money, political reasons, countries at war,
lack of transportation, cannot afford
Field Gleaning - ✔️✔️Collecting leftovers from a farmer's field of crops
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