HNSC 1210 Quiz 1 Questions With Complete Solutions.

Nutrition correct answer: "The study of the nutrients and other biologically active compounds in foods and in the body; sometimes also human behaviours related to food" Diet correct answer: "The foods (including beverages) a person usually eats and drinks" Food correct answer: "Any substance that the body can take in and assimilate that will enable it to stay alive and to grow; the carrier of nourishment" Health correct answer: The state of a human when it functions optimally without evidence of disease or abnormality Nutritional Genomics correct answer: "the science of how nutrients affect the activities of genes and how genes affect the activity of nutrients" Nutrients correct answer: "components of food that are indispensable {or essential} to the body functioning" Nutrients provide correct answer: energy, building material, help maintain or repair body and support growth Essential Nutrients correct answer: "the nutrients that the body can not make for itself from other raw materials. Must be obtained through foods" conditionally essential correct answer: the body can not make enough to meet the requirements for health (e.g the amino acid histidine to support protein synthesis during growth) 8 essential amino acids (TV TILL PM) correc