NS 1410 EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS/ANSWERS
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UPDATE 2024/2025
DRI - ✔✔Dietary Reference Intake- set of reference values
RDA - ✔✔Recommended Dietary Allowance- yardstick for measuring healthy people's
energy and nutrient intakes
UL - ✔✔Tolerable Upper Intake Level-Maximum level of nutrient intake that is unlikely to
pose risk- need b/c of increase of supplements
AI - ✔✔Adequate Intake- recommended avg. daily intake
EAR - ✔✔Estimated Avg. Requirement- avg. daily intake that will meet the need of 50% of
people
AMDR - ✔✔Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Ranges- % of the energy intake that
should come from each macronutrient
Percent Daily Value - ✔✔How much of a serving of food contributes to your overall intake of
the listed nutrients on the facts panel
Appetitie - ✔✔Psychological desire to consume specific foods
Hunger - ✔✔Physiological drive for food
, Satiety - ✔✔Feeling full
Peristalsis - ✔✔Muscular contractions that move food through GI tract
Segmentation - ✔✔Unique pattern of motility
Mucus - ✔✔Protects stomach lining from the acid in gastric juice
Sphincter - ✔✔Circular Muscle allowing area to open and close
Diseases where nutrition plays some role - ✔✔Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis, some cancer
Disease with a strong nutritional component - ✔✔Type 2 Diabetes, Heart Disease, High
Blood Pressure, Obesity
Diseases cause by nutritional deficiencies of toxicities - ✔✔Pellagra, Scurvy, Iron- deficiency
anemia, other deficiencies
Components of DRI - ✔✔-Avg. daily intake required to meet the needs of 97-98% of most
healthy people
-Requirement that will prevent the development of specific deficiencies
-Margin of safety
Required to become a Registered Dietician - ✔✔Bachelor's degree in nutrition, supervised
clinical experience, passing national exam
Vitamins - ✔✔Organic essential nutrient, does not supply energy, easily destroyed
(VERIFIED AND WELL DETAILED ANSWERS) LATEST
UPDATE 2024/2025
DRI - ✔✔Dietary Reference Intake- set of reference values
RDA - ✔✔Recommended Dietary Allowance- yardstick for measuring healthy people's
energy and nutrient intakes
UL - ✔✔Tolerable Upper Intake Level-Maximum level of nutrient intake that is unlikely to
pose risk- need b/c of increase of supplements
AI - ✔✔Adequate Intake- recommended avg. daily intake
EAR - ✔✔Estimated Avg. Requirement- avg. daily intake that will meet the need of 50% of
people
AMDR - ✔✔Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Ranges- % of the energy intake that
should come from each macronutrient
Percent Daily Value - ✔✔How much of a serving of food contributes to your overall intake of
the listed nutrients on the facts panel
Appetitie - ✔✔Psychological desire to consume specific foods
Hunger - ✔✔Physiological drive for food
, Satiety - ✔✔Feeling full
Peristalsis - ✔✔Muscular contractions that move food through GI tract
Segmentation - ✔✔Unique pattern of motility
Mucus - ✔✔Protects stomach lining from the acid in gastric juice
Sphincter - ✔✔Circular Muscle allowing area to open and close
Diseases where nutrition plays some role - ✔✔Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis, some cancer
Disease with a strong nutritional component - ✔✔Type 2 Diabetes, Heart Disease, High
Blood Pressure, Obesity
Diseases cause by nutritional deficiencies of toxicities - ✔✔Pellagra, Scurvy, Iron- deficiency
anemia, other deficiencies
Components of DRI - ✔✔-Avg. daily intake required to meet the needs of 97-98% of most
healthy people
-Requirement that will prevent the development of specific deficiencies
-Margin of safety
Required to become a Registered Dietician - ✔✔Bachelor's degree in nutrition, supervised
clinical experience, passing national exam
Vitamins - ✔✔Organic essential nutrient, does not supply energy, easily destroyed
