Recent surveys indicate that the most commonly purchased foods in America are ____________________ - ✔✔ Milk, ready-to-eat cereal, bottled water,
... [Show More] soft drinks, and bread
What are essential nutrients? - ✔✔ Fats, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates, water, and vitamins
What are the three nutrition-related diseases that are leading causes of death in the US? - ✔✔ Heart disease, cancer, stroke
What are the nutrients that can directly supply energy for human use? - ✔✔ Lipids and oils, proteins, carbohydrates
What substance, present in fruits and vegetables, provide significant health benefits such as reducing the risk of cancer? - ✔✔ Phytochemicals
The Food and Nutrition Board (FBN) of the National Academy of Sciences advocates that 10% to 35% of calories come from protein and ____________________ from carbohydrates - ✔✔ 45%-65%
Fibers belong to the class of nutrients known as ____________________ - ✔✔ Carbohydrates
What are the characteristics of vitamins? - ✔✔ They enable chemical processes in the body, enable energy, and are water and fat soluble
What are minerals in regards to nutrition? - ✔✔ Inorganic substances that don't contain carbon atoms and produce energy
What are the characteristics of carbohydrates? - ✔✔ -They contain C, H, and O with 2x as many H than O atoms
-Provides much of the energy cells require
-Includes sugars and starches
-Major source of fuel for the body
What are the characteristics of lipids? - ✔✔ -Source of energy (9 kcal=1 gram)
-Includes phospholipids, cholesterol, and fats
A warning sign or symptoms of alcohol poising is ____________________ - ✔✔ Vomiting, confusion, seizures, slow breathing, pale skin, passing out, semi consciousness
Gram for gram, which of the nutrients provides the most energy? - ✔✔ Fats/Lipids
What are the characteristics of protein? - ✔✔ -Energy yielding (4 kcal=1 gram)
-Forms when amino acids bond together
What are the functions of water in the body? - ✔✔ -Acts as a solvent and lubricant
-Transports nutrients and waste
A kilocalorie is a measure of ____________________ - ✔✔ Energy
A serving of bleu cheese dressing containing 23 grams of fat would yield ____________________ - ✔✔ 207 kilocalories from fat
(23)(9)=207
A meal consisting of a cheeseburger, large fries, and a chocolate shake provides a total of 1,120 kilocalories. 48% of the energy in the meal is from carbohydrate and 13 percent is from protein. How many kilocalories of fat does the meal contain? - ✔✔ 436.8 calories of fat
48+13=61
100%-61%=39%
1,120/100=11.2
11.2(39)=436.8
A large hamburger (e.g., Whopper) sandwich contains 628 kilocalories and 36 grams of fat. Approximately what percentage of the total energy is contributed by fat/ - ✔✔ 52%
36 g=324 kc
324/628=52%
What is dietary fiber? - ✔✔ The indigestible portion of food derived from plants
Healthy People 2020 was designed to ____________________ - ✔✔ Reflect 5 social determents of health
-Economic stability
-Education
-Social and community context
-Health/Health care
-Neighborhood/Build community [Show Less]