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aae 350 exam 1 Questions with Answers (100% Correct
Answers)
define hunger
Ans✅ ✅: the uneasy or painful sensation caused by lack of food
define food security
Ans✅ ✅: exists when all people at all times have both physical and economic access
to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for an active and
healthy life
define food insecurity
Ans✅ ✅: exists when people lack access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious
food and therefore are not consuming enough for an active and healthy life
Define undernutrition or chronic hunger
Ans✅ ✅: the result of prolonged low levels of food intake and/or low absorption of
food consumed
the status of persons, whose food intake regularly provides less than their minimum
energy requirements
food deprevation
famine
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Ans✅ ✅: extreme shortage of food with underlying crop failure due to bad weather,
war and civil strife or both
results in acute undernutrition
malnutrition
Ans✅ ✅: a broad term for a range of conditions that hinder good health, caused by
inadequate or unbalanced food intake or poor absorption of food consumed
refers to under and over nutrition
Over-nutrition
Ans✅ ✅: excessive food intake in relation to energy requirements
what is good nutrition?
Ans✅ ✅: a diet that meets the requirements for an active, healthy life
growth, activity, productivity, chronic disease prevention
ways to determine a good diet?
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Ans✅ ✅: dietary reference intakes dris
1. rda: recommended dietary allowance (level of intake to meet 97-98% healthy people)
2. ear: estimated average requirement (level to meet needs of 50% people)
3. ul: tolerable upper level (highest level of daily intake to pose no risk of adverse health
effects). developed originally to prevent deficiencies
dietary guidelines
evidence based recommendations, association vs casualty, dietary pattern
what is a healthy us style eating pattern
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Ans✅ ✅: fruits
veggies
protein
dairy
grains
oils
no
saturated / trans fat
added sugars
sodium
what protects you against malnutrition and noncommunicable diseases (diabetes,
heart disease, stroke, cancer)
Ans✅ ✅: a healthy diet!!
when should healthy dietary practices start? what is something that really aids in
this?
Ans✅ ✅: early in life
breastfeeding really helps healthy growth and improve cognitive development. may
have longer term health benefits like reducing the risk of becoming overweight or
obese and developing ncds (non communicable diseases) later in life
energy intake (calories) should be in balance with what
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aae 350 exam 1 Questions with Answers (100% Correct
Answers)
define hunger
Ans✅ ✅: the uneasy or painful sensation caused by lack of food
define food security
Ans✅ ✅: exists when all people at all times have both physical and economic access
to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for an active and
healthy life
define food insecurity
Ans✅ ✅: exists when people lack access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious
food and therefore are not consuming enough for an active and healthy life
Define undernutrition or chronic hunger
Ans✅ ✅: the result of prolonged low levels of food intake and/or low absorption of
food consumed
the status of persons, whose food intake regularly provides less than their minimum
energy requirements
food deprevation
famine
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,2
Ans✅ ✅: extreme shortage of food with underlying crop failure due to bad weather,
war and civil strife or both
results in acute undernutrition
malnutrition
Ans✅ ✅: a broad term for a range of conditions that hinder good health, caused by
inadequate or unbalanced food intake or poor absorption of food consumed
refers to under and over nutrition
Over-nutrition
Ans✅ ✅: excessive food intake in relation to energy requirements
what is good nutrition?
Ans✅ ✅: a diet that meets the requirements for an active, healthy life
growth, activity, productivity, chronic disease prevention
ways to determine a good diet?
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,3
Ans✅ ✅: dietary reference intakes dris
1. rda: recommended dietary allowance (level of intake to meet 97-98% healthy people)
2. ear: estimated average requirement (level to meet needs of 50% people)
3. ul: tolerable upper level (highest level of daily intake to pose no risk of adverse health
effects). developed originally to prevent deficiencies
dietary guidelines
evidence based recommendations, association vs casualty, dietary pattern
what is a healthy us style eating pattern
© 2025 All rights reserved
, 4
Ans✅ ✅: fruits
veggies
protein
dairy
grains
oils
no
saturated / trans fat
added sugars
sodium
what protects you against malnutrition and noncommunicable diseases (diabetes,
heart disease, stroke, cancer)
Ans✅ ✅: a healthy diet!!
when should healthy dietary practices start? what is something that really aids in
this?
Ans✅ ✅: early in life
breastfeeding really helps healthy growth and improve cognitive development. may
have longer term health benefits like reducing the risk of becoming overweight or
obese and developing ncds (non communicable diseases) later in life
energy intake (calories) should be in balance with what
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