Chapter 1 Nutrition for Healthy
Living Exam Questions and
Answers
Risk Factor - Answer- A personal characteristic that increases your chances of
developing a chronic disease.
Chronic diseases - Answer- usually take many years to develop and have complex
causes
Lifestyle - Answer- A person's usual way of living that includes dietary practices,
physical activity, uses of substances, and other typical patterns of behavior.
Risk factors that contribute to health - Answer- Age, environmental conditions,
psychological factors, access to health care, lifestyle practices and genetic background.
Primary cause of preventable cancer deaths - Answer- Smoking
Calorie - Answer- The unit that describes the energy content of food
Macronutrients - Answer- Carbs, fats, and proteins
Micronutrients - Answer- Vitamins and Minerals
Is there such thing as a good or bad food - Answer- No food deserves the label of bad
or junk because all food have nutritional value- a food can only be bad if it contains toxic
substances or is contaminated with bacteria.
Empty calorie - Answer- Contributes a large portion of its energy from unhealthy solid
fat, sugar, and/or alcohol
Nutrient dense - Answer- contains more vitamins and minerals in relation to its
unhealthy fat/sugar/alcohol contents.
Energy density - Answer- Describes the energy value of a food in relation to the food's
weight
Dietary moderation - Answer- involves obtaining enough nutrients from food to meet
one's needs while avoiding excessive amounts and balancing calorie intake with calorie
expenditure, primary by physical activity
Living Exam Questions and
Answers
Risk Factor - Answer- A personal characteristic that increases your chances of
developing a chronic disease.
Chronic diseases - Answer- usually take many years to develop and have complex
causes
Lifestyle - Answer- A person's usual way of living that includes dietary practices,
physical activity, uses of substances, and other typical patterns of behavior.
Risk factors that contribute to health - Answer- Age, environmental conditions,
psychological factors, access to health care, lifestyle practices and genetic background.
Primary cause of preventable cancer deaths - Answer- Smoking
Calorie - Answer- The unit that describes the energy content of food
Macronutrients - Answer- Carbs, fats, and proteins
Micronutrients - Answer- Vitamins and Minerals
Is there such thing as a good or bad food - Answer- No food deserves the label of bad
or junk because all food have nutritional value- a food can only be bad if it contains toxic
substances or is contaminated with bacteria.
Empty calorie - Answer- Contributes a large portion of its energy from unhealthy solid
fat, sugar, and/or alcohol
Nutrient dense - Answer- contains more vitamins and minerals in relation to its
unhealthy fat/sugar/alcohol contents.
Energy density - Answer- Describes the energy value of a food in relation to the food's
weight
Dietary moderation - Answer- involves obtaining enough nutrients from food to meet
one's needs while avoiding excessive amounts and balancing calorie intake with calorie
expenditure, primary by physical activity
