TEST BANK FOR NUTRITIONAL FOUNDATIONS AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS 7TH EDITION BY GRODNER

Chapter 02: Personal and Community Nutrition Grodner et al.: Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach, 7th Edition MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. A client tells you that he cannot eat most green vegetables because they taste too bitter. What is the most likely explanation? a. He has certain genetic taste markers that make him a “super taster.” b. He associates eating green vegetables with unpleasant childhood memories. c. He needs to train himself to enjoy the acquired taste of bitter vegetables. d. He is making an excuse to avoid making healthful changes in his eating habits. ANS: A Some people have variations in genetic taste markers that make them “super tasters.” These people often experience the taste of certain vegetables as being bitter. Environmental factors such as childhood memories may also influence food choices but are not usually associated with tasting vegetables as bitter. Tastes can be acquired and sometimes people make excuses to avoid making changes, but these are less likely explanations for this particular problem. DIF: Cognitive Level: Applying REF: Page 18 TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment MSC: Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance 2. A teenaged client is hungry and goes to the refrigerator for a snack. A holiday has just been celebrated at her home, and many of her favorite foods are available. She selects some slices of roast turkey and a cup of her aunt’s special fruit salad. This is an example of a. bingeing. b. abundance. c. food choice. d. food preference. ANS: D This teenager is able to select foods according to her preferences. Food choices are restricted by convenience, but many of her favorite foods are available, and so her choices are not limited. The food is abundant, and she may choose to binge and overeat, but her selections are made according to her food preference. DIF: Cognitive Level: Analyzing REF: Page 18 TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment MSC: Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity 3. A mother tells you that she does not allow her young children to eat while they watch television, even though her husband often eats high-fat, sugary foods while they watch television as a family. The most important thing to discuss with her is the a. genetic factor of preference for sweet and salty tastes. b. influence of ethnicity on preference for sour tastes. c. children’s weights when they were born and their weights now. d. environmental effects of parental food choices and television watching. ANS: D N R I G B. C M Because young children spend so much time with their families, their parents’ food choices have a major effect on their own future food choices. Preventing young children from eating while watching television will have only a short-term effect, and they are likely to imitate their father in eating high-fat, high-sugar snacks. The father’s food preferences are probably influenced by genetics and ethnicity, and it may be interesting to f