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Nutrition: Concepts & Controversies
FRANCES SIZER; ELLIE WHITNEY
16th Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Food Choices and Human Health
Chapter 2: Nutrition Tools – Standards and Guidelines
Chapter 3: The Remarkable Body
Chapter 4: The Carbohydrates: Sugar, Starch, Glycogen and
Fibre
Chapter 5: The Lipids: Fats, Oil, Phospholipids, and Sterols
Chapter 6: The Proteins and Amino Acids
Chapter 7: The Vitamins
Chapter 8: Water and
Minerals
Chapter 9: Energy Balance and Healthy Body Weight
Chapter 10: Nutrients, Recreational Physical Activity, and the
Body’s Responses
Chapter 11: Role of Diet in the Primary and Secondary
Prevention of Chronic Disease
Chapter 12: Food Safety and Food Bio-
Technology
Chapter 13: Life Cycle Nutrition: Mother and
Infant
Chapter 14: Child, Teen, and Older Adult
Chapter 15: Hunger and the Global Environment
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,Chapter 1 Food Choices and Human Health
MULTICHOICE
1. Which of the following conditions is the most responsive to nutrition?
(A) diabetes
(B) iron deficiency anemia
(C) sickle cell disease
(D) heart disease
Answer : (B)
2. What is the name for the study of environmental influences on genetic expression?
(A) epigenetics
(B) genetic counselling
(C) nutritional nucleic acid pool
(D) genetic metabolics
Answer : (A)
3. The integration of nutrition, genomic science, and molecular biology has launched
a new area of study. What is this area of study called?
(A) nutrition genetics
(B) nutritional genomics
(C) nutritional molecular science
(D) nutritional science
Answer : (B)
4. How many classes of nutrients are there?
(A) 2
(B) 4
(C) 6
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, (D) 8
Answer : (C)
5. Which of the following nutrients is considered organic?
(A) minerals
(B) carbohydrate
(C) water
(D) alcohol
Answer : (B)
6. Which of the following nutrients yields energy and also provides materials that
form structures and working parts of body tissues?
(A) proteins
(B) vitamins
(C) fats
(D) proteins
Answer : (D)
7. Which of the following nutrients is energy-yielding?
(A) carbohydrates
(B) vitamins
(C) water
(D) minerals
Answer : (A)
8. Which of the following statements best defines an "essential" nutrient?
(A) It is necessary for good health and proper functioning of the body.
(B) It can be obtained only from the diet.
(C) It can be manufactured by the body from raw materials.
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Nutrition: Concepts & Controversies
FRANCES SIZER; ELLIE WHITNEY
16th Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Food Choices and Human Health
Chapter 2: Nutrition Tools – Standards and Guidelines
Chapter 3: The Remarkable Body
Chapter 4: The Carbohydrates: Sugar, Starch, Glycogen and
Fibre
Chapter 5: The Lipids: Fats, Oil, Phospholipids, and Sterols
Chapter 6: The Proteins and Amino Acids
Chapter 7: The Vitamins
Chapter 8: Water and
Minerals
Chapter 9: Energy Balance and Healthy Body Weight
Chapter 10: Nutrients, Recreational Physical Activity, and the
Body’s Responses
Chapter 11: Role of Diet in the Primary and Secondary
Prevention of Chronic Disease
Chapter 12: Food Safety and Food Bio-
Technology
Chapter 13: Life Cycle Nutrition: Mother and
Infant
Chapter 14: Child, Teen, and Older Adult
Chapter 15: Hunger and the Global Environment
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,Chapter 1 Food Choices and Human Health
MULTICHOICE
1. Which of the following conditions is the most responsive to nutrition?
(A) diabetes
(B) iron deficiency anemia
(C) sickle cell disease
(D) heart disease
Answer : (B)
2. What is the name for the study of environmental influences on genetic expression?
(A) epigenetics
(B) genetic counselling
(C) nutritional nucleic acid pool
(D) genetic metabolics
Answer : (A)
3. The integration of nutrition, genomic science, and molecular biology has launched
a new area of study. What is this area of study called?
(A) nutrition genetics
(B) nutritional genomics
(C) nutritional molecular science
(D) nutritional science
Answer : (B)
4. How many classes of nutrients are there?
(A) 2
(B) 4
(C) 6
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, (D) 8
Answer : (C)
5. Which of the following nutrients is considered organic?
(A) minerals
(B) carbohydrate
(C) water
(D) alcohol
Answer : (B)
6. Which of the following nutrients yields energy and also provides materials that
form structures and working parts of body tissues?
(A) proteins
(B) vitamins
(C) fats
(D) proteins
Answer : (D)
7. Which of the following nutrients is energy-yielding?
(A) carbohydrates
(B) vitamins
(C) water
(D) minerals
Answer : (A)
8. Which of the following statements best defines an "essential" nutrient?
(A) It is necessary for good health and proper functioning of the body.
(B) It can be obtained only from the diet.
(C) It can be manufactured by the body from raw materials.
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