NURS 300 NUTRITION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ELABORATIONS!!
Food insecurity
Answers:a condition in which people do not have adequate access to food
Basal Metabolic rate (BMR)
Answers:Energy needed at rest to maintain life-sustaining activities (breathing,
circulation, heart rate...) for a specific period of time
Resting Energy Expenditure (REE)
Answers:Energy individual needs to consume over a 24-hour period for body to
maintain all of its internal working activities while at rest
How many meals would I need over x amount of time
Water
Answers:All cell function depends on a fluid environment
60%-70% of total body weight is water
decrease in water> decrease BP> Increase HR>real bad
Minerals
Answers:Essential to body as catalysts in biochemical reactions
Dietary Guidelines
Answers:Provide average daily consumption guidelines for five food groups:
grains, vegetables, fruits, dairy products, and meats
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI's)
, Answers:Acceptable range of quantities of vitamins and minerals for each gender
and age group
Daily values
Answers:Needed protein, vitamins, fats, cholesterol, carbohydrates, fiber, sodium,
and potassium
Daily values based on percentages of a diet consisting of 2000 kcal/day
Who created MyPlate?
Answers:USDA: US Department of Agriculture to replace food pyramid
Digestion
Answers:Mechanical breakdown that results from chewing, churning, and mixing
with fluid and chemical reactions in which food reduces to its simplest form
Metabolism
Answers:Biochemical reactions within the cells of the body
Maintains a balance between anabolism and catabolism
Anabolism
Answers:building of more complex biochemical substances by synthesis of
nutrients
Catabolism
Answers:Breakdown of biochemical substances into simpler substances; occurs
during physiological states of negative nitrogen balance
ELABORATIONS!!
Food insecurity
Answers:a condition in which people do not have adequate access to food
Basal Metabolic rate (BMR)
Answers:Energy needed at rest to maintain life-sustaining activities (breathing,
circulation, heart rate...) for a specific period of time
Resting Energy Expenditure (REE)
Answers:Energy individual needs to consume over a 24-hour period for body to
maintain all of its internal working activities while at rest
How many meals would I need over x amount of time
Water
Answers:All cell function depends on a fluid environment
60%-70% of total body weight is water
decrease in water> decrease BP> Increase HR>real bad
Minerals
Answers:Essential to body as catalysts in biochemical reactions
Dietary Guidelines
Answers:Provide average daily consumption guidelines for five food groups:
grains, vegetables, fruits, dairy products, and meats
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI's)
, Answers:Acceptable range of quantities of vitamins and minerals for each gender
and age group
Daily values
Answers:Needed protein, vitamins, fats, cholesterol, carbohydrates, fiber, sodium,
and potassium
Daily values based on percentages of a diet consisting of 2000 kcal/day
Who created MyPlate?
Answers:USDA: US Department of Agriculture to replace food pyramid
Digestion
Answers:Mechanical breakdown that results from chewing, churning, and mixing
with fluid and chemical reactions in which food reduces to its simplest form
Metabolism
Answers:Biochemical reactions within the cells of the body
Maintains a balance between anabolism and catabolism
Anabolism
Answers:building of more complex biochemical substances by synthesis of
nutrients
Catabolism
Answers:Breakdown of biochemical substances into simpler substances; occurs
during physiological states of negative nitrogen balance
