NTA Learning Outcomes Exam
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Explain the Nutritional Therapy Association's mission and guiding principles
for optimizing health. - ✔✔Mission: Deliver science-based education that
equips and connects community of confident holistic nutrition professionals
to harness the power of real food, reconnecting each person to the unique
needs and innate wisdom of their bodies to support lasting wellness
Guiding Principles: Foundations (digestion, blood sugar regulation, fatty
acids, mineral balance, hydration)
Articulate the role and scope of practice of a Nutritional Therapy
Practitioner. - ✔✔Roles: Provide unbiased health & nutrition info. Educate
public on cost/benefit of whole food, nutrient dense diet. Educate on
environmental & lifestyle factors.
Scope:
- Promote nutrient dense diet
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,-Focus on foundational nutrition & balancing (6) - foundations
- Promote active lifestyles
- Teach ancestral eating principles
DON'T
-Practice medical nutrition
-Diagnose & treat disease
-Make unproven health claims
-Misrepresent training
-Use unproven devices, assessments or therapies
-Use network marketing or product sales in lieu of individual client
education
Articulate the significance of a person's connection to their body's innate
wisdom and role of real food in health. - ✔✔Significance of person's
connection to their body:
-Instincts that guide us towards foods/habits that help us survive
-Disconnection from innate wisdom leads to food choices that contribute to
chronic health issues
-Connecting to innate wisdom can reduce symptoms of chronic conditions
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,Role of Real Food:
- Real not provides necessary nutrients for our bodies to work optimally,
providing critical nutrients that cannot be found in processed foods.
Identify key milestones of the modern diet and lifestyle practices and how
they affect our health. - ✔✔1.) Agricultural Revolution
2.) Intro to Refined Sugars
3.) Industrial Revolution
4.) Rise of Big
5.) Chemical Revolution
6.) Digital Revolution
Agricultural Revolution - ✔✔-Major departure from hunter-gatherer lifestyle
-Increased reliance on farmed food & domesticated animals
-Larger, permanent settlements (towns, cities)
-Food surpluses
Cons as a result:
-Fewer & less-diverse nutrients
-Rapid loss of bone density
-Habitat loss & soil degradation
-Increased spread of communicable diseases
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, -Societal hierarchies, inequality, slavery & genocide
-Carb intake increased, protein consumption went down
Introduction of Refined Sugars - ✔✔- Processed sugars started as a luxury
- Production became cheaper, made more available to the masses
- 150-200 lbs consumed/year today
- Lacks useful nutrients
- Has unique biological effects that are harmful to human health
Industrial Revolution - ✔✔- More people moved to cities -away from where
food was being produced
- Food was being bought rather than raised/harvested
*Need to be processed so it wouldn't spoil
*Increased shelf life = less nutrient density
-Populations grew exponentially
-Machines began to replace physical work of people/animals
-New toxins/chemicals in environment
Rise of Big Food - ✔✔-New food companies i.e. Dr Pepper, Coca-Cola,
Pepsi, Nestle
-Started w/ noble intentions but are now more motivated by profits
*Hyperpalatable combos of fat, sugar and salt to get consumers "hooked"
*Marketing to influence children/parents
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Questions and Answers 100% Solved
Explain the Nutritional Therapy Association's mission and guiding principles
for optimizing health. - ✔✔Mission: Deliver science-based education that
equips and connects community of confident holistic nutrition professionals
to harness the power of real food, reconnecting each person to the unique
needs and innate wisdom of their bodies to support lasting wellness
Guiding Principles: Foundations (digestion, blood sugar regulation, fatty
acids, mineral balance, hydration)
Articulate the role and scope of practice of a Nutritional Therapy
Practitioner. - ✔✔Roles: Provide unbiased health & nutrition info. Educate
public on cost/benefit of whole food, nutrient dense diet. Educate on
environmental & lifestyle factors.
Scope:
- Promote nutrient dense diet
1
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
,-Focus on foundational nutrition & balancing (6) - foundations
- Promote active lifestyles
- Teach ancestral eating principles
DON'T
-Practice medical nutrition
-Diagnose & treat disease
-Make unproven health claims
-Misrepresent training
-Use unproven devices, assessments or therapies
-Use network marketing or product sales in lieu of individual client
education
Articulate the significance of a person's connection to their body's innate
wisdom and role of real food in health. - ✔✔Significance of person's
connection to their body:
-Instincts that guide us towards foods/habits that help us survive
-Disconnection from innate wisdom leads to food choices that contribute to
chronic health issues
-Connecting to innate wisdom can reduce symptoms of chronic conditions
2
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
,Role of Real Food:
- Real not provides necessary nutrients for our bodies to work optimally,
providing critical nutrients that cannot be found in processed foods.
Identify key milestones of the modern diet and lifestyle practices and how
they affect our health. - ✔✔1.) Agricultural Revolution
2.) Intro to Refined Sugars
3.) Industrial Revolution
4.) Rise of Big
5.) Chemical Revolution
6.) Digital Revolution
Agricultural Revolution - ✔✔-Major departure from hunter-gatherer lifestyle
-Increased reliance on farmed food & domesticated animals
-Larger, permanent settlements (towns, cities)
-Food surpluses
Cons as a result:
-Fewer & less-diverse nutrients
-Rapid loss of bone density
-Habitat loss & soil degradation
-Increased spread of communicable diseases
3
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
, -Societal hierarchies, inequality, slavery & genocide
-Carb intake increased, protein consumption went down
Introduction of Refined Sugars - ✔✔- Processed sugars started as a luxury
- Production became cheaper, made more available to the masses
- 150-200 lbs consumed/year today
- Lacks useful nutrients
- Has unique biological effects that are harmful to human health
Industrial Revolution - ✔✔- More people moved to cities -away from where
food was being produced
- Food was being bought rather than raised/harvested
*Need to be processed so it wouldn't spoil
*Increased shelf life = less nutrient density
-Populations grew exponentially
-Machines began to replace physical work of people/animals
-New toxins/chemicals in environment
Rise of Big Food - ✔✔-New food companies i.e. Dr Pepper, Coca-Cola,
Pepsi, Nestle
-Started w/ noble intentions but are now more motivated by profits
*Hyperpalatable combos of fat, sugar and salt to get consumers "hooked"
*Marketing to influence children/parents
4
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
