Chapter 9: Nutrition Lutz exam with correct answers 2024
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Chapter 9: Nutrition Lutz
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Chapter 9: Nutrition Lutz
In addition to energy nutrients, catabolic processes require other agents. Which of the following would least likely be involved?
1. Enzymes
2. Coenzymes
3. Hormones
4. Carbon dioxide correct answers 4.
The catabolic process requires one or more of the following agents: enzymes, coenzymes, or...
In addition to energy nutrients, catabolic processes require other agents. Which of the
following would least likely be involved?
1. Enzymes
2. Coenzymes
3. Hormones
4. Carbon dioxide correct answers 4.
The catabolic process requires one or more of the following agents: enzymes,
coenzymes, or hormones. Carbon dioxide is the result of the breakdown of the fuel-
producing nutrients.
Which of the following would not be produced from the breakdown of fuel-producing
nutrients?
1. Carbon dioxide
2. Water
3. Heat
4. Muscle tissue correct answers 4.
The breakdown of the fuel-producing nutrients yields carbon dioxide, water, heat, and
other forms of energy, but not muscle tissue.
When describing gut failure, which of the following would the nurse include as a
possible cause?
1. Poor food intake
2. Pregnancy
3. Slow weight gain
4. Absorption correct answers 1.
Gut failure results from a poor response to food intake, which then leads to poor
intestinal cell regeneration, ultimately leading to chronic diarrhea caused by
malabsorption.
The sum of the processes through which the body uses food for energy, growth,
maintenance, and regulation of body processes is:
1. Digestion
2. Metabolism
3. Nutrition
4. Excretion correct answers 2.
Metabolism is the sum of all physical and chemical changes that take place in the body
and determines the final use of individual nutrients as well as medications.
The process of breaking down foods into simpler substances by way of physical means
and chemicals is called:
1. Absorption
, 2. Digestion
3. Excretion
4. Ingestion correct answers 2.
Digestion involves the mechanical and chemical breakdown of food in the
gastrointestinal tract into forms small enough for absorption into the blood or lymphatic
system.
The teeth and the stomach contribute mainly to:
1. Enzyme secretion
2. Hydrolysis
3. Chemical digestion
4. Mechanical digestion correct answers 4.
Mechanical digestion is the physical breaking down of food into smaller pieces as
accomplished by chewing involving the teeth and churning the food and mixing it with
digestive secretions in the stomach.
KEY: Integrated Process:
Which of the following contributes to protein digestion?
1. Amylase and maltase
2. Bile and lipase
3. Pepsin and trypsin
4. Secretin and lactase correct answers 3.
Pepsin and trypsin break down protein.
When teaching a client with celiac disease about diet, which of the following would the
nurse include as appropriate for consumption?
1. Corn flakes and skim milk
2. Canned tomato soup and saltines
3. Country-fried steak and French-fried cauliflower
4. Commercial ice cream and bakery sugar cookies correct answers 1.
A person with celiac disease should avoid product with gluten. Corn flakes and skim
milk would be appropriate food
Diseases of which of the following would have the greatest effect on absorption of
nutrients?
1. Gallbladder
2. Large intestine
3. Small intestine
4. Stomach correct answers 3.
They majority of nutrients are absorbed in the small intestine. Therefore, diseases of the
small intestine would gre
Fats are absorbed as fatty acids and ______.
1. Glycerol
2. Monosaccharides
3. Peptides
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