Test Bank Lutz’s Nutrition and Diet Therapy 6th Edition Mazur Litch
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Nutrition in Human Health .................................................................................................. 2 Chapter 2: Carbohydrates ................................................................................................................. 13 Chapter 3: Fats ................................................................................................................................. 22 Chapter 4: Protein ............................................................................................................................. 32 Chapter 5: Energy Balance ............................................................................................................... 44 Chapter 6: Vitamins ........................................................................................................................... 52 Chapter 7: Minerals ........................................................................................................................... 63 Chapter 8: Water ............................................................................................................................... 74 Chapter 9: Digestion, Absorption, Metabolism, and Excretion ............................................................ 85 Chapter 10: Life Cycle Nutrition: Pregnancy and Lactation ................................................................ 95
1 | P a g eChapter 1: Nutrition in Human Health
1. Dietary guidelines are intended to:
1. Apply to the food intake for a single day
2. Apply to items to be ingested for one meal
3. Apply to people who are ill
4. Aid in preventing chronic and degenerative
diseases Ans: 4
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1.
2.
3.
4.
Dietary guidelines are intended to evaluate several days’ intake of food.
Dietary guidelines are intended to evaluate several days’ intake of food, not a
single meal or the intake for 1 day.
Dietary guidelines focus on healthy individuals aged 2 years and older.
Dietary guidelines, which focus on healthy individuals from age 2 years on,
are also aimed at those at risk for chronic disease to encourage proper dietary
habits to promote health and reduce the risk for major chronic diseases.
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and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Comprehension
2. After reviewing the concept of nutrients, a nursing student demonstrates the need
for additional study if the student identifies which of the following as a class of
nutrients? 1. Alcohol
2. Carbohydrate
3. Fat
4. Protein
Ans: 1
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1.
2.
3.
4.
Alcohol is not considered a nutrient.
Carbohydrates are one of the six classes of nutrients. Other classes include
fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water.
Fat is one of the six classes of nutrients. Other classes include carbohydrates,
proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water.
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and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Analysis
Protein is one of the six classes of nutrients. Other classes include
carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water.
3. A chemical substance required by the body is called a(n):
1. Additive
2. Vitamin
3. Food
4. Phytochemical
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4. A substance found in food that must be present in the diet because the human body lacks the
ability to manufacture it in sufficient amounts for optimal health is called a(n):
1. Phytochemical
2. Essential
nutrient
3. Conditional nutrient
4. Nonessential
nutrient Ans: 2
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1.
2.
3.
4.
A phytochemical is a physiologically active substance from a plant
source that can help to promote health.
An essential nutrient is one that the human body requires but cannot
manufacture in sufficient amounts to meet the body’s needs.
A conditionally essential nutrient is one that, under most circumstances,
the healthy body can manufacture in sufficient quantities.
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and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Comprehension
A nonessential nutrient is one that is not needed in the diet because the
body can make it from other substances.
5. Which of the following statements by a client would indicate a need for nutritional
instruction?
1. “The six classes of nutrients are carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water.”
2. “Nutrition can affect health positively or negatively.”
3. “Excessive intake of a nutrient can interfere with other nutrients.”
4. “Milk is the perfect food containing all essential nutrients.”
Ans: 4
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1.
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The six classes of nutrients are carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins,
minerals, and water.2.
3.
Health is dependent on nutrition; the effect can be positive or negative.
If a person ingests too much of one nutrient, other nutrients can be
affected.
4.
Milk is not the perfect food. It does not contain all of the essential
nutrients that a person needs.
KEY: Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care
and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Analysis
6. Metabolism is best described as:
1. The sum of all physical and chemical changes that take place in the body
2. A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
3. Chemical substances needed for growth, maintenance, and repair
4. The acceleration and deceleration of body
functions Ans: 1
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1.
2.
3.
4.
Metabolism is a term that refers to the sum of all physical and chemical
changes that take place in the body.
Health is a term that refers to a complete state of physical, mental, and
social well-being.
Nutrients are chemical substances supplied by food that the body needs
for growth, maintenance, and repair.
Metabolism does not refer to the acceleration and deceleration of body
functions.
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and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Knowledge
7. Energy is obtained from:
1. Physical activity
2. Enzyme
s 3. Food
4. Hormones
Ans: 3
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1.
2.
3.
Energy is the capacity to do work. Physical activity requires energy; It
does not supply it.
Enzymes break down food and convert it to other forms.
Food supplies energy; all food enters the body as chemical
energy, which is transformed by various body processes into other
forms of
energy.
4.
Hormones do not supply energy. Food is the energy source.
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and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Knowledge
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1. Regulate body processes
2. Promote a sense of well-being
3. Maintain stability
4. Store body
fat Ans: 1
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1.
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Nutrients perform one or more of the following functions: Serve as a
source of energy or heat; support the growth and maintenance of tissue;
aid in the regulation of basic body processes.
2.
Nutrients do no promote a sense of well-being. However, when
ingested in the appropriate amounts, they provide a sense of being
satisfied.
3.
4.
9. The MyPlate teaching tool can be used to:
1. Teach clients with any chronic disease
2. Provide recommendations for healthy food proportions
3. Estimate kilocalorie needs for clients with burns
4. Teach food
Nutrients do not function primarily to maintain stability.
Nutrients do no function primarily to store body fat. Eating too much
food increases the fat content of the body because fat is stored for
future use as energy.
safety Ans: 2
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1.
The MyPlate tool does not address chronic disease. Rather, it aims to
reduce risk for obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other
chronic diseases by helping individuals eat correct proportions of
healthy foods meal by meal
2.
3.
The MyPlate tool aims to reduce risk for obesity, diabetes,
cardiovascular disease, and other chronic diseases by helping
individuals eat correct proportions of healthy foods meal by meal.
The MyPlate tool does not address kilocalorie needs. Rather, it aims to
reduce risk for obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other
chronic diseases by helping individuals eat correct proportions of
healthy foods meal by meal.
4.
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The MyPlate tool does not address food safety. Rather, it aims to reduce
risk for obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic
diseases by helping individuals eat correct proportions of healthy foods
meal by meal
10. Which of the following statements about malnutrition is true?
1. It can be avoided by finding the one perfect food.
2. It is associated with the consumption of a diet that is balanced, contains variety, and is eaten
in moderation.
3. It may occur as a result of eating to excess.
4. It rarely occurs when an individual takes vitamin and mineral supplements.
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1.
2.
3.
There is no one perfect food. Nutrients must be ingested in the proper
quantities for optimal health.
Ingesting a balanced diet with variety and moderation would help
promote optimal health and nutrition.
Malnutrition (faulty nutrition) can be caused by inadequate or
unbalanced intake of food or nutrients or to ineffective processing by
the body due to malfunction or disease. The result in the body’s cells
is an excess or deficiency of one or more nutrients, which can lead to
physical abnormalities and possibly mental dysfunction.
4.
Ingesting too much or too little of a nutrient can lead to malnutrition.
Using vitamin and mineral supplements may be beneficial,
but ingesting too much could lead to malnutrition.
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and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Knowledge
11. Knowledge of body composition is important to the understanding of nutrition based on
which of the following?
1. Ninety percent of the human body is of mineral content.
2. Body composition remains fairly constant with aging.
3. About 15% of the body is carbohydrate.
4. Nutrient intake can affect body composition, which, in turn, can affect health.
Ans: 4
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1.
2.
3.
4.
The body is composed primarily of water, not minerals.
Males and females differ in body composition. Males have more
protein than females because of increased muscle. With age, body
composition typically becomes higher in fat and lower in protein.
The human body has only minimal carbohydrate content.
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and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Comprehension
Nutrient intake can affect body composition, which in turn can affect
health.
12. Nutrition, in sum, can best be described
as: 1. A preventive and therapeutic science
2. The study of the procurement and selection of food
3. The study of body composition
4. The use of diet for the treatment of
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Nii i h
i
f fd d i
li hi
h
l h Niidisease Ans: 1
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and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Comprehension
13. The primary responsibility for the daily health care, including nutritional care, of an
institutionalized client falls on the:
1. Dietitian
2. Physician
3. Nurse
4. Occupational
therapist Ans: 3
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1.
4.
2.
Dietitians interpret the physician’s diet order in terms of clients’
food habits and food choices, calculate clients’ nutritional
requirements, evaluate clients’ response to therapeutic diets,
recommend the best route for nutrient administration (enteral or
parenteral), and provide in-depth nutrition education and counseling
to clients.
nutritional risk to other team members, and they provide some
nutritional information to clients.
Occupational therapists recommend strategies to assist clients
with disabilities in attaining maximum functioning in activities of
daily living; regarding nutrition, they may provide assistive feeding
devices or help modify food preparation areas.
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Environment: Management of Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension
Physicians are responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of
medical conditions. They manage care, order laboratory tests, and
prescribe medications and diets.
3.
14. Which of the following reflects a nutritional substance the human body can manufacture
from other substances?
1. Phytochemical
2. Essential nutrient
3. Nonessential nutrient
4. Basic nutrient
Nurses are often the first team members to interview a client, and
they communicate important nutritional information such as a
client’s response to food, including intake and tolerance, to other
team members. In addition, they identify and refer clients at high
Ans: 3
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1.
2.
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3.
A phytochemical is a food containing other physiologically active
substances derived from plants.
An essential nutrient is one that must be supplied by the diet or
artificially because the body cannot manufacture sufficient amounts
of it for health.
A nonessential nutrient is one that is not needed in the diet becauseKEY: Integrated Process: Nursing Process | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care
and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Knowledge
15. The type of energy stored in foods is:
1. Mechanical
2. Electrical
3. Chemical
4. Thermal
Ans: 3
Feedback
1.
2.
3.
4.
All food enters the body as chemical energy.
All food enters the body as chemical energy.
All food enters the body as chemical energy.
All food enters the body as chemical energy.
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and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Knowledge
16. After reviewing information about nutrients, which of the following, if stated by the nurse as
an energy nutrient, indicates the need for more study?
1. Carbohydrates
2. Fats
3. Proteins
4. Vitamins
Ans: 4
Feedback
1.
2.
3.
4.
Carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, the nutrients that supply energy,
are referred to as the energy nutrients.
Carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, the nutrients that supply energy,
are referred to as the energy nutrients.
Carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, the nutrients that supply energy,
are referred to as the energy nutrients.
Vitamins are not considered energy nutrients. Carbohydrates,
fats, and proteins, the nutrients that supply energy, are referred to
as the
energy nutrients.
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and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Analysis
8 | P a g e17. The state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of
disease or infirmity, is the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition of:
1. Satisfactory sanitation
2. Happines
s 3. Health
4. Social welfare
Ans: 3
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1.
Satisfactory sanitation is not the state of complete physical, mental,
and social well-being and is not the absence of disease or infirmity.
According to the WHO, health is the state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease
or infirmity.
2.
Happiness is not the state of complete physical, mental, and social
well-being and not just the absence of disease or infirmity. According
to the WHO, health is the state of complete physical, mental, and
social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
3.
4.
According to the WHO, health is the state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity.
Social welfare is not the state of complete physical, mental, and
social well-being and not just the absence of disease or infirmity.
According to the WHO, health is the state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease
or infirmity.
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and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Knowledge
18. After reviewing information about the functions of nutrients, a nurse demonstrates a need for
additional review when identifying which of the following as a life-sustaining function of
nutrients?
1. Providing pleasure
2. Supplying energy
3. Supporting tissue growth and maintenance
4. Regulating basic body
processes Ans: 1
1.
Feedback
basic body processes.
Although consuming food can be pleasurable, all nutrients perform
one or more of the following life-sustaining functions: serving as a
source of energy or heat, supporting the growth and maintenance of
tissue, and aiding in the regulation of basic body processes.
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2.
All nutrients perform one or more of the following life-sustaining
functions: serving as a source of energy or heat supporting the3.
All nutrients perform one or more of the following life-sustaining
functions: serving as a source of energy or heat, supporting the
growth and maintenance of tissue, and aiding in the regulation of
basic body processes.
4.
All nutrients perform one or more of the following life-sustaining
functions: serving as a source of energy or heat, supporting the
growth and maintenance of tissue, and aiding in the regulation of
basic body processes.
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and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Analysis
19. Phytochemicals are:
1. Essential nutrients
2. Nonnutrient food components with a health benefit
3. Energy nutrients
4. Vitamins
Ans: 2
Feedback
1.
2.
3.
Essential nutrients are those that must be supplied by the diet or
artificially because the body cannot manufacture sufficient amounts
for health.
Phytochemicals are physiologically active substances derived from
plants that may provide a health benefit.
4.
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and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Knowledge
Carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, the nutrients that supply energy, are
referred to as the energy nutrients.
Vitamins are one class of nutrients; they are not phytochemicals.
20. Food insecurity has been defined as:
1. Having too many food choices and making poor choices
2. Having limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods
3. Being exclusively found in people with low incomes
4. Having very poor dental health
Ans: 2
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1.
2.
Food insecurity does not refer to having too many food choices and
making poor choices.
Food insecurity is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally
adequate and safe foods or doubtful ability to acquire food,
whether some of the time or always.
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Although food insecurity may be associated with poverty and low
income, it has important implications for the health and nutrition of
individuals and nations.
4.
Food insecurity does not refer to having poor dental health. Food
insecurity is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally
adequate and safe foods or doubtful ability to acquire food,
whether
some of the time or always
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and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Knowledge
21. The member of the health-care team who is responsible for interpreting the physician’s diet
order in terms of the client’s food habits and food choices, calculating the client’s nutritional
needs, evaluating the client’s response to the therapeutic diet, and providing nutrition education
and counseling for clients is the:
1. Registered dietitian
2. Dietetic technician
3. Occupational therapist
4. Speech
pathologist Ans: 1
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1.
4.
2.
Dietitians interpret the physician’s diet order in terms of clients’ food
habits and food choices, calculate clients’ nutritional requirements,
evaluate clients’ response to therapeutic diets, recommend the best
route for nutrient administration (enteral or parenteral), and provide
in-depth nutrition education and counseling to clients.
living; regarding nutrition, they may provide assistive feeding devices
or help modify food preparation areas.
Speech pathologists diagnose and treat swallowing disorders
along with other nonnutrition-related disorders. Diagnosis involves
determining the type of dysphagia the client manifests.
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Environment: Management of Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension
Dietetic technicians assist dietitians by taking nutrition histories and
body measurements, reviewing records, and monitoring clients’ food
intake. They are often responsible for screening clients for nutritional
risk and referring clients at risk to the registered dietitian.
3.
22. Which member of the health-care team feeds clients, monitors food consumption, measures
intake and output, and records data?
1. Registered dietitian
2. Dietetic technician
3. Licensed practical or vocational nurse
4. Medical
Occupational therapists recommend strategies to assist clients with
disabilities in attaining maximum functioning in activities of daily
assistant Ans: 3
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1.
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Registered dietitians (RDs) are responsible for meeting clients’
nutritional needs. Dietitians interpret the physician’s diet order in
terms of clients’ food habits and food choices, calculate clients’
nutritional requirements, evaluate clients’ response to therapeutic
diets, recommend the best route for nutrient administration (enteral or
parenteral) and provide in-depth nutrition education and counselingKEY: Integrated Process: Nursing Process | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care | Cognitive Level
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Test Bank Lutz’s Nutrition and Diet Therapy 6th Edition Mazur
Litch
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Nutrition in Human Health .................................................................................................. 2
Chapter 2: Carbohydrates ................................................................................................................. 13
Chapter 3: Fats ................................................................................................................................. 22
Chapter 4: Protein ............................................................................................................................. 32
Chapter 5: Energy Balance ............................................................................................................... 44
Chapter 6: Vitamins ........................................................................................................................... 52
Chapter 7: Minerals ........................................................................................................................... 63
Chapter 8: Water ............................................................................................................................... 74
Chapter 9: Digestion, Absorption, Metabolism, and Excretion............................................................ 85
Chapter 10: Life Cycle Nutrition: Pregnancy and Lactation ................................................................ 95
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,Chapter 1: Nutrition in Human Health
1. Dietary guidelines are intended to:
1. Apply to the food intake for a single day
2. Apply to items to be ingested for one meal
3. Apply to people who are ill
4. Aid in preventing chronic and degenerative
diseasesAns: 4
Feedback
1. Dietary guidelines are intended to evaluate several days’ intake of food.
2. Dietary guidelines are intended to evaluate several days’ intake of food, not a
single meal or the intake for 1 day.
3. Dietary guidelines focus on healthy individuals aged 2 years and older.
4. Dietary guidelines, which focus on healthy individuals from age 2 years on,
are also aimed at those at risk for chronic disease to encourage proper dietary
KEY: Integrated Process: Nursing Process | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care
habits to promote health and reduce the risk for major chronic diseases.
and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Comprehension
2. After reviewing the concept of nutrients, a nursing student demonstrates the need
foradditional study if the student identifies which of the following as a class of
nutrients? 1. Alcohol
2. Carbohydrate
3. Fat
4. Protein
Ans: 1
Feedback
1. Alcohol is not considered a nutrient.
2. Carbohydrates are one of the six classes of nutrients. Other classes include
fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water.
3. Fat is one of the six classes of nutrients. Other classes include carbohydrates,
proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water.
4. Protein is one of the six classes of nutrients. Other classes include
KEY: Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
carbohydrates, fats, vitamins,|minerals,
Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care
and water.
and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Analysis
3. A chemical substance required by the body is called a(n):
1. Additive
2. Vitamin
3. Food
4. Phytochemical
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1. An additive, as the name implies, is a substance that is not normally
, Ans: 2
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and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Knowledge
4. A substance found in food that must be present in the diet because the human body lacks the
ability to manufacture it in sufficient amounts for optimal health is called a(n):
1. Phytochemical
2. Essential
nutrient
3. Conditional nutrient
4. Nonessential
nutrientAns: 2
Feedback
1. A phytochemical is a physiologically active substance from a plant
source that can help to promote health.
2. An essential nutrient is one that the human body requires but cannot
manufacture in sufficient amounts to meet the body’s needs.
3. A conditionally essential nutrient is one that, under most circumstances,
the healthy body can manufacture in sufficient quantities.
4. A nonessential nutrient is one that is not needed in the diet because the
KEY: Integrated Process: Nursing Process | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care
body can make it from other substances.
and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Comprehension
5. Which of the following statements by a client would indicate a need for nutritional
instruction?
1. “The six classes of nutrients are carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water.”
2. “Nutrition can affect health positively or negatively.”
3. “Excessive intake of a nutrient can interfere with other nutrients.”
4. “Milk is the perfect food containing all essential nutrients.”
Ans: 4
Feedback
1. The six classes of nutrients are carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins,
minerals, and water.
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, 2. Health is dependent on nutrition; the effect can be positive or negative.
3. If a person ingests too much of one nutrient, other nutrients can be
affected.
4. Milk is not the perfect food. It does not contain all of the essential
nutrients that a person needs.
KEY: Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care
and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Analysis
6. Metabolism is best described as:
1. The sum of all physical and chemical changes that take place in the body
2. A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
3. Chemical substances needed for growth, maintenance, and repair
4. The acceleration and deceleration of body
functionsAns: 1
Feedback
1. Metabolism is a term that refers to the sum of all physical and chemical
changes that take place in the body.
2. Health is a term that refers to a complete state of physical, mental, and
social well-being.
3. Nutrients are chemical substances supplied by food that the body needs
for growth, maintenance, and repair.
4. Metabolism does not refer to the acceleration and deceleration of body
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functions.
and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Knowledge
7. Energy is obtained from:
1. Physical activity
2. Enzyme
s3. Food
4. Hormones
Ans: 3
Feedback
1. Energy is the capacity to do work. Physical activity requires energy; It
does not supply it.
2. Enzymes break down food and convert it to other forms.
3. Food supplies energy; all food enters the body as chemical
energy, which is transformed by various body processes into other
forms of
energy.
4. Hormones do not supply energy. Food is the energy source.
KEY: Integrated Process: Nursing Process | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care
and Comfort | Cognitive Level: Knowledge
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