PORTAGE LEARNING NUTRITION UPDATED EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE

PORTAGE LEARNING NUTRITION UPDATED EXAMS
SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔External Force: Cognitive - ✔✔Habits, comfort foods, advertising, social factors,
nutritional value

✔✔External Force: Environmental - ✔✔Economics, lifestyle, cultural/religious beliefs,
environment

✔✔External Force: Health Status - ✔✔physical restrictions related to disease, declining
taste sensitivity due to age or medications, age and gender

✔✔Essential Nutrients - ✔✔nutrients that are vital for sustaining our health

✔✔Macronutrient - ✔✔Needed in large amounts in the body

✔✔Micronutrient - ✔✔Needed in small amounts in the body

✔✔Organic - ✔✔a compound that contains carbon and hydrogen

✔✔Inorganic - ✔✔Any substance that does not contain carbon

, ✔✔Carbohydrate - ✔✔Primary source of energy!!
Energy source: 4 kcal/gram
Organic
Macronutrient
Supplies energy

✔✔Protein - ✔✔Energy source: 4 kcal/gram
Organic
Macronutrient
regulates body process, provides structure

✔✔Fat - ✔✔Energy source: 9 kcal/gram
Organic
Macronutrient
regulates body process, provides structure

✔✔Vitamin - ✔✔Organic
Micronutrient
regulates body process

✔✔Minerals - ✔✔Inorganic
Micronutrient
regulates body process, provides structure

✔✔Water - ✔✔Inorganic
Macronutrient
regulates body process, provides structure

✔✔Alcohol - ✔✔7 kcal/gram

✔✔Kilocalorie (kcal) - ✔✔the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one
kilogram of water one degree Celsius

✔✔Recommended carb intake daily (calorie %) - ✔✔45-65%

✔✔Recommended protein intake daily (calorie %) - ✔✔10-35%

✔✔Recommended fat intake daily (calorie %) - ✔✔20-35%

✔✔Nutrient-dense foods - ✔✔foods containing high amounts of vitamins and minerals
that our bodies use as fuel

✔✔Empty-calorie foods - ✔✔contain a lot of calories but have little to no nutrient value