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Test Bank Lutz’s Nutrition and Diet Therapy 6th Edition Mazur Litch

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Test Bank Lutz’s Nutrition and Diet Therapy 6th Edition Mazur
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Nutrition in Human Health .................................................................................................. 2
Chapter 2: Carbohydrates ................................................................................................................. 13
Chapter 3: Fats ................................................................................................................................. 22
Chapter 4: Protein ............................................................................................................................. 32
Chapter 5: Energy Balance ............................................................................................................... 44
Chapter 6: Vitamins ........................................................................................................................... 52
Chapter 7: Minerals ........................................................................................................................... 63
Chapter 8: Water ............................................................................................................................... 74
Chapter 9: Digestion, Absorption, Metabolism, and Excretion............................................................ 85
Chapter 10: Life Cycle Nutrition: Pregnancy and Lactation ................................................................ 95

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,Chapter 1: Nutrition in Human Health

1. Dietary guidelines are intended to:
1. Apply to the food intake for a single day
2. Apply to items to be ingested for one meal
3. Apply to people who are ill
4. Aid in preventing chronic and degenerative

diseasesAns: 4
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1. Dietary guidelines are intended to evaluate several days’ intake of food.
2. Dietary guidelines are intended to evaluate several days’ intake of food, not a
single meal or the intake for 1 day.
3. Dietary guidelines focus on healthy individuals aged 2 years and older.
4. Dietary guidelines, which focus on healthy individuals from age 2 years on,
are also aimed at those at risk for chronic disease to encourage proper dietary
KEY: Integrated Process: Nursing Process | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care
habits to promote health and reduce the risk for major chronic diseases.
and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Comprehension

2. After reviewing the concept of nutrients, a nursing student demonstrates the need
foradditional study if the student identifies which of the following as a class of
nutrients? 1. Alcohol
2. Carbohydrate
3. Fat
4. Protein

Ans: 1
Feedback
1. Alcohol is not considered a nutrient.
2. Carbohydrates are one of the six classes of nutrients. Other classes include
fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water.
3. Fat is one of the six classes of nutrients. Other classes include carbohydrates,
proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water.
4. Protein is one of the six classes of nutrients. Other classes include
KEY: Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
carbohydrates, fats, vitamins,|minerals,
Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care
and water.
and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Analysis

3. A chemical substance required by the body is called a(n):
1. Additive
2. Vitamin
3. Food
4. Phytochemical

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1. An additive, as the name implies, is a substance that is not normally

, Ans: 2

KEY: Integrated Process: Nursing Process | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care
and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Knowledge

4. A substance found in food that must be present in the diet because the human body lacks the
ability to manufacture it in sufficient amounts for optimal health is called a(n):
1. Phytochemical
2. Essential
nutrient
3. Conditional nutrient
4. Nonessential

nutrientAns: 2
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1. A phytochemical is a physiologically active substance from a plant
source that can help to promote health.
2. An essential nutrient is one that the human body requires but cannot
manufacture in sufficient amounts to meet the body’s needs.
3. A conditionally essential nutrient is one that, under most circumstances,
the healthy body can manufacture in sufficient quantities.
4. A nonessential nutrient is one that is not needed in the diet because the
KEY: Integrated Process: Nursing Process | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care
body can make it from other substances.
and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Comprehension

5. Which of the following statements by a client would indicate a need for nutritional
instruction?
1. “The six classes of nutrients are carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water.”
2. “Nutrition can affect health positively or negatively.”
3. “Excessive intake of a nutrient can interfere with other nutrients.”
4. “Milk is the perfect food containing all essential nutrients.”

Ans: 4
Feedback
1. The six classes of nutrients are carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins,
minerals, and water.

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, 2. Health is dependent on nutrition; the effect can be positive or negative.
3. If a person ingests too much of one nutrient, other nutrients can be
affected.
4. Milk is not the perfect food. It does not contain all of the essential
nutrients that a person needs.
KEY: Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care
and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Analysis

6. Metabolism is best described as:
1. The sum of all physical and chemical changes that take place in the body
2. A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
3. Chemical substances needed for growth, maintenance, and repair
4. The acceleration and deceleration of body

functionsAns: 1
Feedback
1. Metabolism is a term that refers to the sum of all physical and chemical
changes that take place in the body.
2. Health is a term that refers to a complete state of physical, mental, and
social well-being.
3. Nutrients are chemical substances supplied by food that the body needs
for growth, maintenance, and repair.
4. Metabolism does not refer to the acceleration and deceleration of body
KEY: Integrated Process: Nursing Process | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care
functions.

and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Knowledge

7. Energy is obtained from:
1. Physical activity
2. Enzyme
s3. Food
4. Hormones
Ans: 3
Feedback
1. Energy is the capacity to do work. Physical activity requires energy; It
does not supply it.
2. Enzymes break down food and convert it to other forms.
3. Food supplies energy; all food enters the body as chemical
energy, which is transformed by various body processes into other
forms of
energy.
4. Hormones do not supply energy. Food is the energy source.
KEY: Integrated Process: Nursing Process | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care
and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Knowledge

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