Docsity
Docsity

Prepare for your exams
Prepare for your exams

Study with the several resources on Docsity


Earn points to download
Earn points to download

Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan


Guidelines and tips
Guidelines and tips

DHN 101 Chapter 1: Nutrition Basics - Questions and Answers, Exams of Health sciences

A concise overview of basic nutrition concepts, including the definition of diet, nutrients, and their functions. It also explores the impact of diet on health, highlighting the importance of a balanced diet to prevent chronic diseases. A series of questions and answers related to the key concepts, making it a useful resource for students studying introductory nutrition.

Typology: Exams

2024/2025

Available from 03/01/2025

wallen-smith
wallen-smith 🇺🇸

138 documents

1 / 5

Toggle sidebar

This page cannot be seen from the preview

Don't miss anything!

bg1
DHN 101 Chapter 1 | Questions and answers with
100% correct solutions | Graded A+
Diet ✔✔usual pattern of food choices
What are some of the things that can influence diet? ✔✔- ethnic/ cultural background
- friends/ family
- advertising
Nutrients ✔✔chemicals necessary for proper body functioning necessary for growth, maintenance, and
cell repair
What can poor habits lead to? ✔✔heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes
*these diseases can be combatted by eating more fruits/ vegetables, less salty foods, more whole-grain
Nutrition ✔✔scientific study of nutrients and how the body uses the substances
Chemistry ✔✔the study of the composition and characteristics of matter and change that can occur to it
Top two causes of preliminary death: ✔✔1. stroke
2. heart disease
pf3
pf4
pf5

Partial preview of the text

Download DHN 101 Chapter 1: Nutrition Basics - Questions and Answers and more Exams Health sciences in PDF only on Docsity!

DHN 101 Chapter 1 | Questions and answers with

100% correct solutions | Graded A+

Diet ✔✔usual pattern of food choices What are some of the things that can influence diet? ✔✔- ethnic/ cultural background

  • friends/ family
  • advertising Nutrients ✔✔chemicals necessary for proper body functioning necessary for growth, maintenance, and cell repair What can poor habits lead to? ✔✔heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes *these diseases can be combatted by eating more fruits/ vegetables, less salty foods, more whole-grain Nutrition ✔✔scientific study of nutrients and how the body uses the substances Chemistry ✔✔the study of the composition and characteristics of matter and change that can occur to it Top two causes of preliminary death: ✔✔1. stroke
  1. heart disease

Six major classes of nutrients: ✔✔1. carbohydrates

  1. fats/ lipids
  2. proteins
  3. vitamins
  4. minerals
  5. water Men vs. Women nutrient differences ✔✔Women have less water and protein but more fat Metabolism ✔✔total of all chemical processes that take place in living cells Essential Nutrient ✔✔a nutrient that must be supplied by food Deficiency Disease ✔✔state of health that occurs when a nutrient is missing from the diet *abnormal physiological changes occur Phytochemicals (type of nonnutrient) ✔✔compounds made by plants that are not nutrients Antioxidant ✔✔protects cells and their components from being damaged or destroyed by exposure to certain harmful environmental and Carbohydrates (function) ✔✔Energy ( in most forms)

Alkaloids ✔✔Stimulant effects Glycosides ✔✔May kill certain microbes, inhibit certain cancers, and reduce risk of heart deiseas Capsaicinoids ✔✔May provide some pain relief Fructooligosaccharides ✔✔May stimulate the growth of some beneficial bacteria in the human intestinal tract Risk Factor ✔✔A personal characteristic that increases a persons chance pf developing a disease Lifestyle ✔✔usual way of living, including dietary practices and physical activity habits calorie ✔✔the unit that describes the energy content of food kilocalorie (Calorie) ✔✔heat energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 liter of water 1 degree celcius: measure of food energy macronutrients ✔✔nutrients needed in gram amounts daily that provide energy; carbohydrated, protiens and fats micronutrients ✔✔vitamins and minerals

empty-calorie ✔✔describes food or beverage that supplies excessive amounts of unhealthy solid fat, added sugars, and/or alcohol nutrient-dense ✔✔describes food or beverage that has more vitamins and minerals in raltions to its unhealthy fat, added sugar, and/or alcohol energy density ✔✔energy value of the food in relation to the foods weight moderation ✔✔obtaining adequate amounts of nutrients while balancing calorie intake with calorie expindeture