FSHN 220 Exam #1 – Food Science and Human Nutrition – Review Notes and
Practice Material
Hunger - ✔✔not enough food is eaten to meet energy needs
can cause preterm birth, mental disabilities, inadequate growth, decreased work, poor school
performance
Food insecurity - ✔✔anxiety regarding running out of food or money to buy food
Malnutrition - ✔✔failing health resulting from long- standing dietary practices that do not
meet nutritional needs
Famine - ✔✔an extreme shortage of food caused by massive starvation and crop failures and
war or political unrest
Undernutrition - ✔✔subclinical deficiency (lab tests) vs. clinical deficiency (visible symptoms)
Overnutrition - ✔✔can lead to toxicity and or obesity
Protein energy malntutrition - ✔✔form of malnutrition that is defined as a range of
pathological conditions arising from coincident lack of dietary protein or energy in varying
proportions
Kwashiokor - ✔✔sickness from weaning
occurs mainly in infants
maladaptive response to starvation where body uses proteins and conserves fat
,can cause edema and liver insult
Marasmus - ✔✔wasting caused by inadequate intake protein in calories
characterized by emaciation
lack of energy and protein
uses fat stores before muscles
adaptive response to starvation
Vitamin A - ✔✔500,000 children are permanently blinded from lack
100-140 mil deficient in vitamin A
Iodide - ✔✔50 million people have developed brain damage from deficiency
2 billion at risk
Iron Deficiency - ✔✔1 billion people have this deficiency
Food for Kids Program - ✔✔each child receives a backpack filled with shelf-stable food to
sustain them over weekends and holidays
costs $5,000 annually
given directly to kids
WIC - ✔✔Women, Infants, and Children Program
SNAP - ✔✔Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
food stamps for the low income
, Poverty - ✔✔caused by large group of unskilled workers, lay offs and low paying jobs
also seen as the number of single person families increase
Homelesness - ✔✔43% of families with children will be this
6.5% of adults will experience this
caused by increase cost of housing and decrease subsidy for housing and release of mental ill
patients
Developing countries - ✔✔some problems include:
AIDS
War
Debt
Food: Population imbalance
poor infrastructure and sanitation
extreme weather
resource depletion
disease
high infant mortality
low life expentnacy
Reducing Undernutrition - ✔✔emergency food network system
gaining independence from public assistance
increase in individual responsibility
economic opportunities
Practice Material
Hunger - ✔✔not enough food is eaten to meet energy needs
can cause preterm birth, mental disabilities, inadequate growth, decreased work, poor school
performance
Food insecurity - ✔✔anxiety regarding running out of food or money to buy food
Malnutrition - ✔✔failing health resulting from long- standing dietary practices that do not
meet nutritional needs
Famine - ✔✔an extreme shortage of food caused by massive starvation and crop failures and
war or political unrest
Undernutrition - ✔✔subclinical deficiency (lab tests) vs. clinical deficiency (visible symptoms)
Overnutrition - ✔✔can lead to toxicity and or obesity
Protein energy malntutrition - ✔✔form of malnutrition that is defined as a range of
pathological conditions arising from coincident lack of dietary protein or energy in varying
proportions
Kwashiokor - ✔✔sickness from weaning
occurs mainly in infants
maladaptive response to starvation where body uses proteins and conserves fat
,can cause edema and liver insult
Marasmus - ✔✔wasting caused by inadequate intake protein in calories
characterized by emaciation
lack of energy and protein
uses fat stores before muscles
adaptive response to starvation
Vitamin A - ✔✔500,000 children are permanently blinded from lack
100-140 mil deficient in vitamin A
Iodide - ✔✔50 million people have developed brain damage from deficiency
2 billion at risk
Iron Deficiency - ✔✔1 billion people have this deficiency
Food for Kids Program - ✔✔each child receives a backpack filled with shelf-stable food to
sustain them over weekends and holidays
costs $5,000 annually
given directly to kids
WIC - ✔✔Women, Infants, and Children Program
SNAP - ✔✔Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
food stamps for the low income
, Poverty - ✔✔caused by large group of unskilled workers, lay offs and low paying jobs
also seen as the number of single person families increase
Homelesness - ✔✔43% of families with children will be this
6.5% of adults will experience this
caused by increase cost of housing and decrease subsidy for housing and release of mental ill
patients
Developing countries - ✔✔some problems include:
AIDS
War
Debt
Food: Population imbalance
poor infrastructure and sanitation
extreme weather
resource depletion
disease
high infant mortality
low life expentnacy
Reducing Undernutrition - ✔✔emergency food network system
gaining independence from public assistance
increase in individual responsibility
economic opportunities
