Nutrition & Diet Therapy: Exam 1 (Chapter 1)
Questions with Complete Solutions
1. What Drives Our Food Choices? correct answer: We need to eat and drink to live.
2. We get fuel from chemical compounds known as correct answer: nutrients.
3. What are the six classes of nutrients? correct answer: - Carbohydrates
-fats
-protein
-vitamins
-minerals
-water
4. What works to provide energy, growth, and maintenance, and to
maintain body processes? correct answer: Nutrients
5. What provides energy in the form of kilocalories? correct answer: -
Carbohydrates
-fats
-proteins
6. What helps regulate body processes, including metabolism? correct answer:
Vitamins and minerals
7. Foods also provide that help . correct answer: -
non-nutrient compounds
-maintain and repair the body.
8. What are some factors that affect our daily food choices? correct answer: 1)
Taste and culture
2) Social reasons and trends
3) Cost, time, and convenience
4) Habits and emotions
9. The science that studies how the nutrients and compounds in foods
nourish you, help you function, and affect your health. correct answer:
nutrition.
10. You are a product of what correct answer: you eat, what you don't eat, or what you
may eat too much of.
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, 11. A chronic deficiency will affect your body's correct answer: ability to function
in the short term.
12. Chronic deficiencies, excesses, and imbalances can correct answer: attect
long-term health.
13. Carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water correct
answer: are all essential nutrients—you need them to function.
14. What are the macronutrients correct answer: Carbohydrates, fats, and
proteins
15. What are the micronutrients correct answer: Vitamins and minerals
16. Alcohol provides calories but is not an correct answer: essential nutrient
17. What are used for energy during metabolism. correct answer: kilocalories
(calories)
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Questions with Complete Solutions
1. What Drives Our Food Choices? correct answer: We need to eat and drink to live.
2. We get fuel from chemical compounds known as correct answer: nutrients.
3. What are the six classes of nutrients? correct answer: - Carbohydrates
-fats
-protein
-vitamins
-minerals
-water
4. What works to provide energy, growth, and maintenance, and to
maintain body processes? correct answer: Nutrients
5. What provides energy in the form of kilocalories? correct answer: -
Carbohydrates
-fats
-proteins
6. What helps regulate body processes, including metabolism? correct answer:
Vitamins and minerals
7. Foods also provide that help . correct answer: -
non-nutrient compounds
-maintain and repair the body.
8. What are some factors that affect our daily food choices? correct answer: 1)
Taste and culture
2) Social reasons and trends
3) Cost, time, and convenience
4) Habits and emotions
9. The science that studies how the nutrients and compounds in foods
nourish you, help you function, and affect your health. correct answer:
nutrition.
10. You are a product of what correct answer: you eat, what you don't eat, or what you
may eat too much of.
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5
, 11. A chronic deficiency will affect your body's correct answer: ability to function
in the short term.
12. Chronic deficiencies, excesses, and imbalances can correct answer: attect
long-term health.
13. Carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water correct
answer: are all essential nutrients—you need them to function.
14. What are the macronutrients correct answer: Carbohydrates, fats, and
proteins
15. What are the micronutrients correct answer: Vitamins and minerals
16. Alcohol provides calories but is not an correct answer: essential nutrient
17. What are used for energy during metabolism. correct answer: kilocalories
(calories)
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