WGU C787 TEST PAPER 2025/2026 ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Vitamin A deficiency - ✔✔Causes night blindness
✔✔Rickets - ✔✔Vitamin D deficiency. Causes bone deformity
✔✔Calcium supplements - ✔✔Reduces risk of osteoporosis
✔✔Vitamin K - ✔✔Helps blood clot. Should be avoided while on warfarin (Coumadin)
✔✔Nutrients that may be deficient in a vegetarian diet - ✔✔Iron
Vitamin D
Protein
Calcium (in a bio-available form)
✔✔Food insecurity - ✔✔A limited ability to acquire nutritionally adequate foods in
socially acceptable ways
✔✔Contributing factors to global hunger - ✔✔Food waste and overpopulation
✔✔Natural causes of famine - ✔✔Pests, drought, and flood
✔✔Economic Research Service - ✔✔Assists in providing research and analysis on food
security issues in developing countries.
✔✔Food deserts - ✔✔Characterized by their lack of availability and accessibility of
healthful foods
✔✔Public health strategies to reduce food deserts - ✔✔Implement urban farmer's
market
Supporting public policy to reduce costs of fresh foods
✔✔Food Security Survey Module - ✔✔Diagnostic tool focused on financial limitations to
adequate nutrition. Measures sufficiency of food.
✔✔Undernutrition - ✔✔Too little food energy or too few nutrients. May occur despite
high calorie intake.
✔✔Child Food Security Survey Model - ✔✔Determines if a child is experiencing hunger
at home
✔✔Household Food Security Status - ✔✔An outcome measure to examine the public's
ability to secure adequate food.
, ✔✔Food security - ✔✔A condition in which people have access to sufficient, safe, and
nutritious food
✔✔Low food security - ✔✔Reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet
✔✔What was one effect of the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act
of 1990? - ✔✔Development of standardized questionnaires for measuring household
food security status
✔✔Hunger - ✔✔Uneasy or painful sensation caused by the lack of food
✔✔Problems associated with food insecurity - ✔✔Poor nutrition
Obesity
Lower cognitive and academic performance
Poorer health status
✔✔SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) - ✔✔Helps low income families
who have trouble affording food acquire food
✔✔Meals on Wheels - ✔✔A program of home-delivered meals for older adults with
diminished mobility. Payment is based on a sliding scale
✔✔Special Supplementary Nutrition program from WIC - ✔✔Provides supplemental
foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant,
postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at
nutritional risk
✔✔Major barrier to nutritional education - ✔✔Illiteracy. Must screen for problems with
written materials and provide verbal or picture-based instruction.
✔✔Elderly Nutrition Program - ✔✔Teaches older adults how to shop, plan, and prepare
nutritious meals, as well as conducting hypertension assessments
✔✔Helps provide socialization to older adults - ✔✔Providing meals in group settings
✔✔Senior farmer's market Nutrition Program - ✔✔Allows older adults to acquire fruits
and vegetables
✔✔SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) - ✔✔Helps low income families
acquire food
✔✔Food poisoning - ✔✔Can be caused by either primary infection by a microbe or
production of toxins by microbes.
QUESTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Vitamin A deficiency - ✔✔Causes night blindness
✔✔Rickets - ✔✔Vitamin D deficiency. Causes bone deformity
✔✔Calcium supplements - ✔✔Reduces risk of osteoporosis
✔✔Vitamin K - ✔✔Helps blood clot. Should be avoided while on warfarin (Coumadin)
✔✔Nutrients that may be deficient in a vegetarian diet - ✔✔Iron
Vitamin D
Protein
Calcium (in a bio-available form)
✔✔Food insecurity - ✔✔A limited ability to acquire nutritionally adequate foods in
socially acceptable ways
✔✔Contributing factors to global hunger - ✔✔Food waste and overpopulation
✔✔Natural causes of famine - ✔✔Pests, drought, and flood
✔✔Economic Research Service - ✔✔Assists in providing research and analysis on food
security issues in developing countries.
✔✔Food deserts - ✔✔Characterized by their lack of availability and accessibility of
healthful foods
✔✔Public health strategies to reduce food deserts - ✔✔Implement urban farmer's
market
Supporting public policy to reduce costs of fresh foods
✔✔Food Security Survey Module - ✔✔Diagnostic tool focused on financial limitations to
adequate nutrition. Measures sufficiency of food.
✔✔Undernutrition - ✔✔Too little food energy or too few nutrients. May occur despite
high calorie intake.
✔✔Child Food Security Survey Model - ✔✔Determines if a child is experiencing hunger
at home
✔✔Household Food Security Status - ✔✔An outcome measure to examine the public's
ability to secure adequate food.
, ✔✔Food security - ✔✔A condition in which people have access to sufficient, safe, and
nutritious food
✔✔Low food security - ✔✔Reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet
✔✔What was one effect of the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act
of 1990? - ✔✔Development of standardized questionnaires for measuring household
food security status
✔✔Hunger - ✔✔Uneasy or painful sensation caused by the lack of food
✔✔Problems associated with food insecurity - ✔✔Poor nutrition
Obesity
Lower cognitive and academic performance
Poorer health status
✔✔SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) - ✔✔Helps low income families
who have trouble affording food acquire food
✔✔Meals on Wheels - ✔✔A program of home-delivered meals for older adults with
diminished mobility. Payment is based on a sliding scale
✔✔Special Supplementary Nutrition program from WIC - ✔✔Provides supplemental
foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant,
postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at
nutritional risk
✔✔Major barrier to nutritional education - ✔✔Illiteracy. Must screen for problems with
written materials and provide verbal or picture-based instruction.
✔✔Elderly Nutrition Program - ✔✔Teaches older adults how to shop, plan, and prepare
nutritious meals, as well as conducting hypertension assessments
✔✔Helps provide socialization to older adults - ✔✔Providing meals in group settings
✔✔Senior farmer's market Nutrition Program - ✔✔Allows older adults to acquire fruits
and vegetables
✔✔SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) - ✔✔Helps low income families
acquire food
✔✔Food poisoning - ✔✔Can be caused by either primary infection by a microbe or
production of toxins by microbes.
