Health Care, 8th Edition by DeBruyne
Pinna
Health - answer-a range of states with physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social
components.
Wellness - answer-maximum wellbeing; the top range of health stress; the goal of the
person who strives toward realizing his or her full potential physically, mentally,
emotionally, spirtually, and socially
inorganic - answer-not containing carbon or pertaining to living things
calories - answer-unit by which energy is measured. kcalories
energy density - answer-a measure of the energy a food provides realitive to the amout
of food
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) - answer-a set of values for the dietary nutrient intakes
of healthy people in the US and Cananda
Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) - answer-set of values reflecting the average
daily amounts of nutrients considered adequate to meet the known nutrient needs of
practically all health people in a particular life stages and gender group
Requirement - answer-lowest continuing intake of a nutrient that will maintain a
specified criterion of adequacy
food groups
aerobic physical activity - answer-which the body's large muscles move in a rhythmic
manner for a sustained period of time
moderate intensity physical activity - answer-physical activity that requires some
increase in breathing and or heart rate and expends 3.5 to 7 kcalories per minute