NFSC 100 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST 2025

NFSC 100 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST 2025 What is a risk factor? What is the difference between a modifiable and a non‐modifiable risk factor? - Answers A factor that increases the probability of developing a disease or health problem. Modifiable is a factor that can be altered while non-modifiable is not changeable. What are the levels of disease prevention? - Answers Primary - prevention of disease symptoms Secondary - early detection, diagnosis, intervention, Screening Tertiary - treating & rehabilitating diagnosed patients to delay further disease progression What is food security? What types of factors determine whether someone is food secure or not? - Answers Food security means access by all members at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life 1. Ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods. 2. Acquire food in socially acceptable ways. Factors include social, economic and political What is metabolic syndrome? - Answers A combination of characteristic factors that greatly increase a person's risk a person's risk of developing CVD. What benefits are provided by the School Lunch Program? - Answers - provides free or reduced price lunches - free to people with incomes less than 130% of poverty - Reduced to household incomes 130- 185% What are the nutritional requirements for meals provided by the School Lunch Program? - Answers - 1/3rd of RDA for protein, calcium, iron, vitamin A and C - 30% of calories can come from fat - 10% can come from saturated fat Who is served by the WIC program? - Answers Women, infants (0-12 months) and children (1-5yrs) What benefits are provided? What are some of the beneficial outcomes of WIC participation? - Answers Benefits include supplemental food, nutrition education and referrals to health care service. Beneficial outcomes include improved diet/health, decreased lower birth weight and less iron deficiency anemia. What benefits are provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program? What can a person purchase with these benefits? What can't they purchase with these benefits? - Answers Provides food and nutritional education for those who qualify to SNAP. A person can purchase breads/cereal,fruits/veggies, meats, fish/poultry and dairy products. They can't purchase beer, wine, liquor, cigarettes or tobacco, any nonfood products, vitamins/medicine and hot food. What is the difference between an entitlement and a non‐entitlement federal program? - Answers • Entitlement programs: Persons qualify because meet eligibility requirements. - Mandatory funds - Ex. SNAP and national school lunch program • Non-entitlement programs: Limited by spending caps - Discretionary funds - Ex. WIC What are human chronic diseases? - Answers • Continuous and reoccurring condition • Require a long‐term and systematic approach to treatment. • Cardiovascular disease, hypertension, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis • Prevented or delayed with changes of diet and lifestyle patterns What are the leading causes of death in the US? - Answers Heart disease and causes include consumption of saturated and trans fat, cholesterol and simple sugar. What are the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases? - Answers • Physical Inactivity • Hypertension • Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome • Family history • Age/gender (men 45; women 55) • Cigarette Smoking (passive smoking) • Elevated blood LDL‐cholesterol and consumption of cholesterol/trans‐fat • Diabetes What are the risk factors for hypertension? - Answers • Alcohol consumption • Ages • African‐American ancestry • Excess consumption of sodium • Exercise • Family history • Low potassium and magnesium • Overweight What are the blood cholesterol concentrations and blood pressure in healthy and unhealthy persons - Answers healthy is less than 200 unhealthy is greater than or equal to 240 Describe the mechanisms of atherosclerosis. - Answers Root of most forms of Cardiovascular disease and it is the hardening of arterties What is cancer? Explain the carcinogenic process. - Answers Human disease where abnormal cells divide without control and can invade other tissues. There are over 100 different forms of cancer.