nutrition
EXAM 1 NUTRITION ROKS
Chapter 1: Living a Healthy Lifestyle
Key concepts to review:
1. What are health and wellness?
Health: the absence of disease or illness, merges and balances 6 physical and
psychological dimension of health, physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual and
environmental.
● Wellness: lifestyle (pattern of behaviors) that enhances level of health.
● Pasteurization and sanitation have reduced risk of foodborne and environmental hazards.
● Rene Dubos (1968) Definition of Health
○ “Health is quality of life involving social, emotional, mental, spiritual, and biologic
fitness on the part of the individual, which results from adaptations to the
environment.”
● 6 Dimensions of Health
○ Physical Health: efficient body functioning, maintaining immunity to disease and
meet energy requirements
○ Intellectual Health: use of intellectual abilities to learn and adapt to environment
○ Emotional Health: ability to control emotions, express or suppress emotions
appropriately.
○ Social Health: interactions and relationships with other and sustaining relationship
with people.
○ Spiritual Health: cultural beliefs about the purpose of life, give purpose to human
existence.
○ Environmental Health: external factors that impact living and work setting, like
ethnicity, education, income, and occupation.
2. Healthy People 2020: What is its vision and mission?
● Vision: a society in which all people live long, healthy lives.
● Mission/Overarching Goals:
○ Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and
premature death.
○ Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities and improve the health of all groups.
○ Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
○ Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life
changes.
3. What is health literacy?
● Health Literacy: being able to receive and comprehend basic health concepts, such as
nutrition and applying them to our own health decision.
, ● Health literacy develops through education on topics related to health promotion and
illness.
● Education Process of Health Literacy
○ Formal Education: purposely planned for implementation in a school setting.
○ Non-formal Education: organized teaching and learning events in hospitals,
clinics, and community centers.
○ Informal Education: variety of educational experiences that occur through daily
activities, like watching TV, reading newspapers and magazines, browsing the
internet or conversing with other people.
● Health Context: takes into account the influence of culture, social, and individual factors
with developing health literacy.
○ Cultural factors: ethnicity, religion, race
○ Social factors: setting that members receive support or lack of support for health
promoting behaviors
○ Individual factors: choices we make on willingness to acquire then apply health
knowledge.
● Health Literacy Actualization: being able to use acquired health knowledge and skills.
4. Name and define the multidimensional aspects of health.
● 6 Dimensions of Health
○ Physical Health: efficient body functioning, maintaining immunity to disease and
meet energy requirements
○ Intellectual Health: use of intellectual abilities to learn and adapt to environment
○ Emotional Health: ability to control emotions, express or suppress emotions
appropriately.
○ Social Health: interactions and relationships with other and sustaining relationship
with people.
○ Spiritual Health: cultural beliefs about the purpose of life, give purpose to human
existence.
○ Environmental Health: external factors that impact living and work setting, like
ethnicity, education, income, and occupation.
5. What are the 6 nutrient categories?
● Nutrition: how essential nutrients are processed and used by the body.
● Carbohydrates
● Proteins
● Lipids (fats)
● Vitamins
● Minerals
● water
, 6. What are essential nutrients and what are their functions?
● Essential Nutrients: essential because we can make some of it, but not enough so we
get the rest through food.
○ Carbohydrates: provide energy, help regulate body processes
■ Source: glucose
○ Proteins: provide energy, help regulate body processes, help aid growth and
repair of body tissue.
■ Source: amino acids
○ Lipids (fats): provide energy, help regulate body processes, help aid growth and
repair of body tissue
■ Source: linoleic acid, linolenic acid
○ Vitamins: provides energy, but as indirect role as catalyst for body’s use of
energy nutrients, help regulate body processes.
■ Source: Fat soluble vitamins (vitamin A, D, E, & K). Water soluble
vitamins (vitamin all Bs & C)
○ Minerals: provides energy, but as indirect role as catalyst for body’s use of
energy nutrients, help regulate body processes, help aid growth and repair of
body tissue
○ Water: help regulate body processes, help aid growth and repair of body tissue.
● Non-essential nutrients: made natural in body but also be absorbed from certain foods.
Nutrition Facts Label.pdf (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Water a Vital Nutrient.pdf (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
7. Nurses promote and increase the level of health for individuals, families, groups, and
communities through the use of knowledge, different techniques and through community
support. How do they do this?
● Through health promotion.
● Health Promotion: what we do to increase the level of healthy individuals, families,
groups and communities.
● As nurses we do this through the use of:
○ Knowledge
○ Different techniques
○ Enlisting support of community.
8. What are primary, secondary, and tertiary disease prevention behaviors and examples of
each?
● Primary Prevention: initial treatment for prevention of a disease. Focus on promotion.
○ Ex: immunization, low fat diet, high fiber (plant based) eating style.
EXAM 1 NUTRITION ROKS
Chapter 1: Living a Healthy Lifestyle
Key concepts to review:
1. What are health and wellness?
Health: the absence of disease or illness, merges and balances 6 physical and
psychological dimension of health, physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual and
environmental.
● Wellness: lifestyle (pattern of behaviors) that enhances level of health.
● Pasteurization and sanitation have reduced risk of foodborne and environmental hazards.
● Rene Dubos (1968) Definition of Health
○ “Health is quality of life involving social, emotional, mental, spiritual, and biologic
fitness on the part of the individual, which results from adaptations to the
environment.”
● 6 Dimensions of Health
○ Physical Health: efficient body functioning, maintaining immunity to disease and
meet energy requirements
○ Intellectual Health: use of intellectual abilities to learn and adapt to environment
○ Emotional Health: ability to control emotions, express or suppress emotions
appropriately.
○ Social Health: interactions and relationships with other and sustaining relationship
with people.
○ Spiritual Health: cultural beliefs about the purpose of life, give purpose to human
existence.
○ Environmental Health: external factors that impact living and work setting, like
ethnicity, education, income, and occupation.
2. Healthy People 2020: What is its vision and mission?
● Vision: a society in which all people live long, healthy lives.
● Mission/Overarching Goals:
○ Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and
premature death.
○ Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities and improve the health of all groups.
○ Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
○ Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life
changes.
3. What is health literacy?
● Health Literacy: being able to receive and comprehend basic health concepts, such as
nutrition and applying them to our own health decision.
, ● Health literacy develops through education on topics related to health promotion and
illness.
● Education Process of Health Literacy
○ Formal Education: purposely planned for implementation in a school setting.
○ Non-formal Education: organized teaching and learning events in hospitals,
clinics, and community centers.
○ Informal Education: variety of educational experiences that occur through daily
activities, like watching TV, reading newspapers and magazines, browsing the
internet or conversing with other people.
● Health Context: takes into account the influence of culture, social, and individual factors
with developing health literacy.
○ Cultural factors: ethnicity, religion, race
○ Social factors: setting that members receive support or lack of support for health
promoting behaviors
○ Individual factors: choices we make on willingness to acquire then apply health
knowledge.
● Health Literacy Actualization: being able to use acquired health knowledge and skills.
4. Name and define the multidimensional aspects of health.
● 6 Dimensions of Health
○ Physical Health: efficient body functioning, maintaining immunity to disease and
meet energy requirements
○ Intellectual Health: use of intellectual abilities to learn and adapt to environment
○ Emotional Health: ability to control emotions, express or suppress emotions
appropriately.
○ Social Health: interactions and relationships with other and sustaining relationship
with people.
○ Spiritual Health: cultural beliefs about the purpose of life, give purpose to human
existence.
○ Environmental Health: external factors that impact living and work setting, like
ethnicity, education, income, and occupation.
5. What are the 6 nutrient categories?
● Nutrition: how essential nutrients are processed and used by the body.
● Carbohydrates
● Proteins
● Lipids (fats)
● Vitamins
● Minerals
● water
, 6. What are essential nutrients and what are their functions?
● Essential Nutrients: essential because we can make some of it, but not enough so we
get the rest through food.
○ Carbohydrates: provide energy, help regulate body processes
■ Source: glucose
○ Proteins: provide energy, help regulate body processes, help aid growth and
repair of body tissue.
■ Source: amino acids
○ Lipids (fats): provide energy, help regulate body processes, help aid growth and
repair of body tissue
■ Source: linoleic acid, linolenic acid
○ Vitamins: provides energy, but as indirect role as catalyst for body’s use of
energy nutrients, help regulate body processes.
■ Source: Fat soluble vitamins (vitamin A, D, E, & K). Water soluble
vitamins (vitamin all Bs & C)
○ Minerals: provides energy, but as indirect role as catalyst for body’s use of
energy nutrients, help regulate body processes, help aid growth and repair of
body tissue
○ Water: help regulate body processes, help aid growth and repair of body tissue.
● Non-essential nutrients: made natural in body but also be absorbed from certain foods.
Nutrition Facts Label.pdf (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Water a Vital Nutrient.pdf (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
7. Nurses promote and increase the level of health for individuals, families, groups, and
communities through the use of knowledge, different techniques and through community
support. How do they do this?
● Through health promotion.
● Health Promotion: what we do to increase the level of healthy individuals, families,
groups and communities.
● As nurses we do this through the use of:
○ Knowledge
○ Different techniques
○ Enlisting support of community.
8. What are primary, secondary, and tertiary disease prevention behaviors and examples of
each?
● Primary Prevention: initial treatment for prevention of a disease. Focus on promotion.
○ Ex: immunization, low fat diet, high fiber (plant based) eating style.
