PHED Final Exam 2 Questions with 100% Correct Answers 2024/2025
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PHED Final Exam 2 Questions with 100% Correct Answers 2024/2025
Nutrition - ANSWERSThe science that studies the relationship of foods to optimal health and performance
Nutrients - ANSWERSSubstances found in food that provide energy, regulate metabolism, and help with growth and repair of bo...
PHED Final Exam 2 Questions with 100%
Correct Answers 2024/2025
Nutrition - ANSWERSThe science that studies the relationship of foods to optimal health and
performance
Nutrients - ANSWERSSubstances found in food that provide energy, regulate metabolism, and help with
growth and repair of body tissues
Substrates - ANSWERSFoods that are used as energy sources (carbohydrates, fats, protein)
Essential Nutrients - ANSWERSCarbohydrates, fats, protein, vitamins, minerals, and water- the nutrients
the human body requires for survival
Macro-nutrients - ANSWERSThe nutrients the body needs in proportionately large amounts;
carbohydrates, fats, protein, and water are examples
Micro-nutirents - ANSWERSThe nutrients the body needs in small quantities- vitamins and minerals- that
serve specific roles in transformation of energy and body tissue synthesis
Calorie - ANSWERSThe amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water at 1*C;
used to measure the energy value of food and cost of physical energy
Carbohydrates - ANSWERSCompounds composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that the body uses as
its major source of energy
Fiber - ANSWERSPlant material that human digestive enzymes cannot digest
Fats (Lipids) - ANSWERSA class of nutrients that the body uses as a source of energy
, Proteins - ANSWERSA class of nutrients that the body uses to build and repair body tissues
Amino Acids - ANSWERSThe basic building block of protein
Vitamins - ANSWERSOrganic substances essential for normal bodily metabolism, growth, and
development
Antioxidants - ANSWERSCompounds that prevent oxygen from combining with other substances it might
damage
Minerals - ANSWERSInorganic elements needed by the body
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) - ANSWERSFour types of nutrient standards that are used to establish
adequate amounts and maximum safe nutrient intakes in the diet: Estimated Average Requirements
(EAR), Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA), Adequate Intakes (AI), and Tolerable Upper Intake
Levels (UL)
Estimated Average Requirements (EAR) - ANSWERSThe amount of a nutrient that meets the dietary
needs of half the people
Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) - ANSWERSThe daily amount of a nutrient (statistically
determined from the EARs) considered adequate to meet the known nutrients needs of almost 98% of
all healthy people in the United States
Adequate Intakes (AI) - ANSWERSThe recommended amount of a nutrient intake when sufficient
evidence is not available to calculate the EAR and subsequent RDA
Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (UL) - ANSWERSThe highest level of nutrient intake that appears to be safe
for most healthy people without an increased risk of adverse effects
Daily Values (DVs) - ANSWERSReference values for nutrients and food components used in food labels
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