CSNN BOARD EXAM 2026
FUNDAMENTALS OF NUTRITION
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
⩥ western paradigm errors in thinking. Answer: symptoms are mistakes
> substances isolated from natural environment are healing > food
doesn't matter
⩥ effects of food temp. Answer: life needs warming foods, heat raises
energy > life slows in cool env > sugar added to increase energy can also
use spices, cooking etc
⩥ law of opposites. Answer: energy moves in a pendulum to find
balance > macrobiotics: ying\yang of foods, quality changes with
quantity
⩥ yang foods in TCM. Answer: expansive > sweet, spicy > grows up to
heavens > warm > watery \ moist
⩥ yin foods in TCM. Answer: contractive > bitter, salty > hides in the
ground > cold > dense \ dry
, ⩥ pritikin diet. Answer: for CVD > expansive & cooling > no fat, salt,
refined carb, sugar. Anne Marie Colbin recommends to balance the SAD
diet
⩥ high protein diets. Answer: contractive, acid-forming > high-strucg \
tense or lethargic effects
⩥ low calorie diets. Answer: move-more-eat-less > quanitfies in calories
> weight loss eg WW or Jenny Craig > accessible but do not offer inner
transformation
⩥ vegetarian. Answer: ovo-lacto > lacto > vegan
⩥ macrobiotic. Answer: longevity diet > considers all aspects: seasons,
quantity, quality, ancestry, type of activity, individual constitution >
grains, legumes, veg, sea veg, fermented
⩥ contractive foods. Answer: hold heat\energy and are warming
⩥ expansive foods. Answer: disperse heat \ energy and are cooling
⩥ treat a fever with foods that have a XXX thermal effect. Answer:
cooling
FUNDAMENTALS OF NUTRITION
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
⩥ western paradigm errors in thinking. Answer: symptoms are mistakes
> substances isolated from natural environment are healing > food
doesn't matter
⩥ effects of food temp. Answer: life needs warming foods, heat raises
energy > life slows in cool env > sugar added to increase energy can also
use spices, cooking etc
⩥ law of opposites. Answer: energy moves in a pendulum to find
balance > macrobiotics: ying\yang of foods, quality changes with
quantity
⩥ yang foods in TCM. Answer: expansive > sweet, spicy > grows up to
heavens > warm > watery \ moist
⩥ yin foods in TCM. Answer: contractive > bitter, salty > hides in the
ground > cold > dense \ dry
, ⩥ pritikin diet. Answer: for CVD > expansive & cooling > no fat, salt,
refined carb, sugar. Anne Marie Colbin recommends to balance the SAD
diet
⩥ high protein diets. Answer: contractive, acid-forming > high-strucg \
tense or lethargic effects
⩥ low calorie diets. Answer: move-more-eat-less > quanitfies in calories
> weight loss eg WW or Jenny Craig > accessible but do not offer inner
transformation
⩥ vegetarian. Answer: ovo-lacto > lacto > vegan
⩥ macrobiotic. Answer: longevity diet > considers all aspects: seasons,
quantity, quality, ancestry, type of activity, individual constitution >
grains, legumes, veg, sea veg, fermented
⩥ contractive foods. Answer: hold heat\energy and are warming
⩥ expansive foods. Answer: disperse heat \ energy and are cooling
⩥ treat a fever with foods that have a XXX thermal effect. Answer:
cooling
