Health – Nutrition For Life Exam Questions with Answers
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Health – Nutrition For Life Exam Questions with Answers
Severe Dehydration - Answer-can have very serious consequences, including death
Water helps to: - Answer--fill us
-transport nutrients
-regulate body temperature
Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) - Answer-the recommended nutrien...
Health – Nutrition For Life Exam
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Severe Dehydration - Answer-can have very serious consequences, including death
Water helps to: - Answer--fill us
-transport nutrients
-regulate body temperature
Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) - Answer-the recommended nutrient intakes
that will meet the needs of most healthy people; these are guidelines not requirements
Serving Size - Answer-nutrition labels show the size of a single serving; all other values
on the label refer to the serving size
Daily Value (DV) - Answer-recommended daily amounts of nutrients in percentages
relative to a 2000 Calorie diet
Food labels list ingredients from first to last based on ________ - Answer-weight
Food Guide Pyramid - Answer-a visual and conceptual tool for planning your diet;
shows the recommended number of servings from each of the 6 food groups
Dietary Guidelines for Americans - Answer-a set of diet and lifestyle recommendations
to improve health in the U.S
Nutrient Density - Answer-a measure of nutrients in a food compared with the energy it
provides
Low Nutrient Density foods are called _____ ________ - Answer-junk foods
An infants diet is high in ___ to provide energy for rapid growth and brain develoment -
Answer-fat
Adolescent boys should use the ____ end of the serving ranges on a Food Guide
Pyramid while adolescent girls should use the _________ of the ranges - Answer-high;
middle
Teens need _____ calories than adults - Answer-more
, Athletes need a diet high in __________________ to provide extra energy - Answer-
carbohydrates
Pregnant women need up to an additional ___ Calories per day and additional
_________, B Vitamins, ________, iron and ____ - Answer-450; protein; folate; zinc
Vegetarian Diet - Answer-no meat is eaten
Vegan Diet - Answer-vegetarians that eat no animal products in any form
Vegans must eat from a variety of _______ sources to get all the _______________
amino acids and other nutrients - Answer-plant; essential
Hunger - Answer-the body's physical response to the need for food
Appetite - Answer-a desire, rather than a need, to eat certain foods
Why do we choose the foods that we do? - Answer--smell and taste
-mood
-traditions
-socials
-health concerns
-cost
Extra food that you do not use immediately is stored as ____________ or ___ - Answer-
glycogen; fat
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) - Answer-the amount of energy your body uses for basic
functions; varies from person to person depending on age, weight, gender, activity etc.
Energy Balance - Answer-when the food energy you take in equals the energy you use
Being overweight increases the risk of many long term health problems including: -
Answer--heart disease
-high blood pressure
-cancers
-type 2 diabetes
-sleep problems
Obesity - Answer-a condition in which there is an excess of body fat for ones weight
Body Composition - Answer-the measure of the amount of body weight due to fat
compared to the amount of body weight due to muscle and bone
Body Mass Index (BMI) - Answer-an index of weight in relation to height that is used to
assess healthy body weight
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