ISSA Nutrition Quiz - Questions With
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Who declared "Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food" in
400 B.C. ✔️Ans - Hippocrates
Vitamins and their importance in health and wellness were discovered by
European doctors in the ✔️Ans - Early 1900s
In humans what provides the first impression of food? ✔️Ans - The eyes
Which of the following is one of the five categories of taste in food,
corresponding to the flavor glutamate? ✔️Ans - Umami
Foods selected, produced, or consumed for reasons beyond calorie and
nutrient content are referred to as ✔️Ans - Functional Foods
Approximately what percentage of a cell's mass is water? ✔️Ans - 70%
A thin polar membrane made of pairs of a lipid molecules, is known as
✔️Ans - Lipid bilayer
Epithelial cells can be classified as squamous, cuboidal, or ✔️Ans -
Columnar
Tendons and ligaments are made of ✔️Ans - Dense connective tissue
The three types of body muscle found in the human body are: cardiac, skeletal,
and ✔️Ans - Smooth
How many organ systems in the body ✔️Ans - 11
Which organ system works closely with the nervous system to produce,
release, and regulate hormones? ✔️Ans - Endocrine system
,Which of the following is a pulpy, acidic fluid passing from the stomach to the
small intestine, consisting of gastric juices and partially digested food?
✔️Ans - Chyme
Specialized cells on the pancreas, which secrete insulin, glucagon, and
somatostatin are referred to as the ✔️Ans - islet of Langerhans
The small intestine is divided into the sections, in what order? ✔️Ans -
Doudenum, jejunum, and ileum
Process of converting ingested nutrients into energy within the body
✔️Ans - Metabolism
A calorie is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of
water by ✔️Ans - 1 degree Celsius and 1 ATM
What is the caloric(kcal) yield of nutritional fat ✔️Ans - 9 kcal
Which method of measuring energy expenditure measures oxygen consumed,
and carbon dioxide produced? ✔️Ans - Indirect calorimetry
Which of the following is widely used to predict an individual's RMR
✔️Ans - Bland Altman analysis
What principle states energy cannot be created nor destroyed, but only
change from one form to another ✔️Ans - Law of Conservation of Energy
Within the ATP-ADP cycle, what is the process of adding a phosphate?
✔️Ans - Rephosphorylation
Enzyme catalyzing the breakdown of ATP to ADP ✔️Ans - ATPase
The phosphagen system provides an instant source of energy, for up to
✔️Ans - 30 seconds
Most effective at producing ATP ✔️Ans - Fatty Acids
Fructose produces a slower rise in blood sugar after consumption because
✔️Ans - It must be converted into glucose first
, Has glycemic index scores ✔️Ans - Carbohydrates
Digested quickly in the body ✔️Ans - Monosacharides
A client with low blood sugar levels is correctly identified as ✔️Ans -
Hypoglycemia
Most likely to protect muscle from being catabolized during exercise
✔️Ans - Fruit
The best time to consume a carbohydrate rich drink when cycling is when the
athletic activity level lasts ✔️Ans - 95 minutes
Characteristics of a soluble fiber ✔️Ans - Prevents spikes in blood
glucose levels
Gut bacteria has been found to prefer which types of carbohydrate ✔️Ans
- Cellulose
Primary energy source of the brain ✔️Ans - Glycogen
Liver serves as a reservoir for what? ✔️Ans - Glucose
Recommended daily intake of protein for a client who's goal is to build lean
body mass ✔️Ans - 1.4-2.0 g/kg/d
Muscle will release amino acids to be used as energy under which condition?
✔️Ans - With severe calorie restriction
of the BCAAs, which amino acid is most used by the body ✔️Ans -
Leucine
Supplementing with glutamine is most beneficial for clients ✔️Ans -
Recovering from an injury
Protein catabolism is mostly likely to occur during a ✔️Ans - 2 hour
swim
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