TEST BANK FOR NUTRITION FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE,
4TH EDITION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a range of states with physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and
social components.
Wellness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅maximum wellbeing; the top range of health stress; the goal of
the person who strives toward realizing his or her full potential physically, mentally, emotionally,
spirtually, and socially
Nutrition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The science of foods and the nutrients and the other substances
they contain, and of their ingestion, digestion, absorption, transport, metabolism, interaction, sotrage
and exeretion.
Bioactive food components - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅components in foods, either nutrients or
phytochemicals, that alter physiological processes in the body
phytochemical - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅compounds in plants that confer color, taste and other
characteristics.
Foodways - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅eatting habits of people, region or historical period
ethnic diets - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅foodways and cuisines typical of national origins, races,
cultural heritages, or geographic locations.
Functional foods - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅whole or modified foods that contain bioactive food
components believed to provide health benefits, such as reduced disease risk
nutrients - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅substances obtained from food and used in the body to provide
energy and structural materials and to serve as regulating agents to promote growth, maintenance, and
repair
, essential nutrients - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅nutrients a person must get from food becuase the
body cannot make the for its self or in sufficient quanitities
organic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅four organic nutrients are carbohydrates, fat, protein and vitmans.
they are carbon containing.
energy yielding nutrients - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the nutrients taht break down to yield energy
the body can use
inorganic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅not containing carbon or pertaining to living things
calories - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅unit by which energy is measured. kcalories
energy density - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a measure of the energy a food provides realitive to the
amout of food
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a set of values for the dietary nutrient
intakes of healthy people in the US and Cananda
Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅set of values reflecting the
average daily amounts of nutrients considered adequate to meet the known nutrient needs of
practically all health people in a particular life stages and gender group
Requirement - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅lowest continuing intake of a nutrient that will maintain a
specified criterion of adequacy
deficient - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅describes the amount below which almost all healthy people can
be expected over time to experience deficiency symptoms
Estimated Average Requirements (EAR) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅average daily nutrient intake
levels estimated to meet requirements of half of the healthy individuals in a given age and gender group
4TH EDITION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a range of states with physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and
social components.
Wellness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅maximum wellbeing; the top range of health stress; the goal of
the person who strives toward realizing his or her full potential physically, mentally, emotionally,
spirtually, and socially
Nutrition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The science of foods and the nutrients and the other substances
they contain, and of their ingestion, digestion, absorption, transport, metabolism, interaction, sotrage
and exeretion.
Bioactive food components - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅components in foods, either nutrients or
phytochemicals, that alter physiological processes in the body
phytochemical - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅compounds in plants that confer color, taste and other
characteristics.
Foodways - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅eatting habits of people, region or historical period
ethnic diets - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅foodways and cuisines typical of national origins, races,
cultural heritages, or geographic locations.
Functional foods - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅whole or modified foods that contain bioactive food
components believed to provide health benefits, such as reduced disease risk
nutrients - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅substances obtained from food and used in the body to provide
energy and structural materials and to serve as regulating agents to promote growth, maintenance, and
repair
, essential nutrients - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅nutrients a person must get from food becuase the
body cannot make the for its self or in sufficient quanitities
organic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅four organic nutrients are carbohydrates, fat, protein and vitmans.
they are carbon containing.
energy yielding nutrients - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the nutrients taht break down to yield energy
the body can use
inorganic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅not containing carbon or pertaining to living things
calories - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅unit by which energy is measured. kcalories
energy density - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a measure of the energy a food provides realitive to the
amout of food
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a set of values for the dietary nutrient
intakes of healthy people in the US and Cananda
Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅set of values reflecting the
average daily amounts of nutrients considered adequate to meet the known nutrient needs of
practically all health people in a particular life stages and gender group
Requirement - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅lowest continuing intake of a nutrient that will maintain a
specified criterion of adequacy
deficient - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅describes the amount below which almost all healthy people can
be expected over time to experience deficiency symptoms
Estimated Average Requirements (EAR) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅average daily nutrient intake
levels estimated to meet requirements of half of the healthy individuals in a given age and gender group
