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Nutrition & Diet Therapy: Exam 1 (Chapter
1) Questions and Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: What Drives Our Food Choices?
ANS 🗹🗹: We need to eat and drink to live.
Q: We get fuel from chemical compounds known as
ANS 🗹🗹: nutrients.
Q: What are the six classes of nutrients?
ANS 🗹🗹: - Carbohydrates
- fats
-protein
-vitamins
-minerals
-water
Q: What works to provide energy, growth, and maintenance, and to maintain body
processes?
ANS 🗹🗹: Nutrients
Q: What provides energy in the form of kilocalories?
ANS 🗹🗹: - Carbohydrates
- fats
- proteins
Q: What helps regulate body processes, including metabolism?
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ANS 🗹🗹: Vitamins and minerals
Q: Foods also provide _________ that help ________.
ANS 🗹🗹: - non-nutrient compounds
- maintain and repair the body.
Q: What are some factors that affect our daily food choices?
ANS 🗹🗹: 1) Taste and culture
2) Social reasons and trends
3) Cost, time, and convenience
4) Habits and emotions
Q: The science that studies how the nutrients and compounds in foods nourish you, help
you function, and affect your health.
ANS 🗹🗹: nutrition.
Q: You are a product of what
ANS 🗹🗹: you eat, what you don't eat, or what you may eat too much of.
Q: A chronic deficiency will affect your body's
ANS 🗹🗹: ability to function in the short term.
Q: Chronic deficiencies, excesses, and imbalances can
ANS 🗹🗹: affect long-term health.
Q: Carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water
ANS 🗹🗹: are all essential
nutrients—you need them to function.
Q: What are the macronutrients
Nutrition & Diet Therapy: Exam 1 (Chapter
1) Questions and Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: What Drives Our Food Choices?
ANS 🗹🗹: We need to eat and drink to live.
Q: We get fuel from chemical compounds known as
ANS 🗹🗹: nutrients.
Q: What are the six classes of nutrients?
ANS 🗹🗹: - Carbohydrates
- fats
-protein
-vitamins
-minerals
-water
Q: What works to provide energy, growth, and maintenance, and to maintain body
processes?
ANS 🗹🗹: Nutrients
Q: What provides energy in the form of kilocalories?
ANS 🗹🗹: - Carbohydrates
- fats
- proteins
Q: What helps regulate body processes, including metabolism?
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ANS 🗹🗹: Vitamins and minerals
Q: Foods also provide _________ that help ________.
ANS 🗹🗹: - non-nutrient compounds
- maintain and repair the body.
Q: What are some factors that affect our daily food choices?
ANS 🗹🗹: 1) Taste and culture
2) Social reasons and trends
3) Cost, time, and convenience
4) Habits and emotions
Q: The science that studies how the nutrients and compounds in foods nourish you, help
you function, and affect your health.
ANS 🗹🗹: nutrition.
Q: You are a product of what
ANS 🗹🗹: you eat, what you don't eat, or what you may eat too much of.
Q: A chronic deficiency will affect your body's
ANS 🗹🗹: ability to function in the short term.
Q: Chronic deficiencies, excesses, and imbalances can
ANS 🗹🗹: affect long-term health.
Q: Carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water
ANS 🗹🗹: are all essential
nutrients—you need them to function.
Q: What are the macronutrients
