C787 nutrition WGU Review questions and
Answers
1. When nutrition advocates became concerned that recommendations did not do enough to address prevention of
chronic diet related diseases, what policy change were made?
RDA's (Recommended Daily Allowances) expanded into several DRI (Daily Reference Intakes)
2. What is true of dietary reference intake?
Food labeling must include information about them.
They differ depending on age and gender
3. What is always found on a nutrition label in the US?
Serving size
4. A healthful diet contains nutrient intake near what amount?
Recommended daily allowance
5. What is an appropriate use of AMDR (Acceptable Macronutrient Dietary Range) when evaluating the
appropriateness of a snack food?
50% calories from fat is too much.
6. What is meant by Tolerable Upper Intake Level?
The highest level of daily consumption that current data has shown to cause no side effects in humans; ensures
people do not take harmful amounts.
7. How is estimated average requirement commonly used?
To guide recommendations and menu planning for communities in combinations with upper intake levels.
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8. What is true of choose my plate .gov recommendations as presented by their setting place graphic?
Half of the plate should be fruits and vegetables.
Download Full PDF (With All Pages) HERE:
9. What is the nutritional benefit of fruits and vegetables?
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They provide nutrients that reduce the risk some type of cancer.
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10. What is false regarding fruits and vegetables in the diet?
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, Fruits and vegetables are rich in vitamin B12
11. What strategy might be avoided due to expense for patients looking to eat more healthfully on a budget?
Buying frozen meals
12. Which statement is true about planning a balanced meal?
Skim milk has roughly the same amount of calcium and protein as whole milk.
13. What is true about dietary recommendation for whole grain intake?
Half of all whole grains consumed should be whole grain products.
14. Fritz is hosting a brunch and prepares for each of his friends
Omelet with cheese
Toasted English muffin
1t all fruit preserves
½ large grapefruit
1c whole milk
How can his menu be improved to follow the dietary guidelines for Americans?
Use egg whites for the omelets
Replace cheese with vegetables in the omelets
Replace English muffin with whole wheat English muffin
Replace whole milk with fat free milk
15. What is true of recommendations concerning trans fat and added sugar intake?
Trans fat and added sugar intake should be minimized. There is no DRI value.
What is recommended daily amount of protein intake?
60g/ day.
17. Which list contains all examples of protein?
Garbanzo beans (Chickpeas), egg, chicken breast, yogurt, cheese, ground beef, peanut butter, tofu
18. What is the best choice for a combination of plant-based foods to maximize healthy diet in a vegetarian diet?
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Legume+ whole grain
19. There is aFull
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Pages)labeling
HERE: of sugars on nutrition fact labels. In the coming years,
which of these might be more obviously labeled sugars?
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Anything ending in-ose, honey
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20. Which carbohydrate will cause a quick return to hunger?
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, Ergogenic aid- athletic performance
Nootropic- cognition
Probiotic- digestive system
Galactagogue- breastmilk production.
83. Supplements may or may not contain an active ingredient. What else may they contain?
Extra ingredients that are unlisted and are similar to fillers in Rx drugs
84. How should you counsel a patient about providing information about the supplements they take to the healthcare
team?
"Supplements can interact with medicine and make the medicine's effect too strong. This can cause a life-threatening
event."
85. Match the nutrient to its deficiency:
Thiamine- beriberi
Iodine- brain damage, intellectual impairment, goiter
Vitamin A- blindness
Vitamin D- rickets
Why do many women take calcium supplements?
To reduce the risk of osteoporosis
87. Vitamin k:
Should be avoided while on warfarin (Coumadin)
88. What is unavailable in plant foods, and therefore may need to be consumed as a supplement to a vegetarian
diet?
Vitamin B12.
89. What nutrients are available in plant foods but may require special consideration in a vegetarian diet?
Iron
Vitamin D
Protein (can be very difficult on a vegetarian diet)
Calcium (must be a bioavailable form)
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90. A limited ability to acquire nutritionally adequate foods in socially acceptable ways is called?
Download Full PDF (With All Pages) HERE:
Food insecurity
What is true of food waste and overpopulation?
https://www.paperstoc.com/downloads/17046/c787-nutrition-wgu-review-que
They are contributing factors to global hunger
stions-and-answers
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, Development of standardized questionnaires for measuring household food security status.
105. The uneasy or painful sensation caused by the lack of food is known as....
Hunger
106. Which factor might be a cause of a patient's frequent ED visits for congestive heart failure?
The patient goes without medication because they cannot afford them until they are paid.
107. What problems of factors can be associated with food insecurity?
Poor nutrition
Trouble obtaining food
Obesity
Lower cognitive and academic performance
Poorer health status
108. What does SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) do?
Help low income families who have trouble affording food acquire food.
109. What is the most appropriate referral to have home meals delivered by Meals on Wheels?
Male, age 82, limited income, mobility issues and cannot drive.
Which is the most appropriate referral to the Women, infants, and Children program?
Female, age 22, speaks limited English, 6 months pregnant, low income, difficulty obtaining prenatal care.
111. What is not a primary consideration when addressing nutritional needs for a homeless patient?
Is the food fair-trade certified?
112. What is a major barrier to nutritional education, and a strategy for overcoming that barrier?
Illiteracy, screening for problems with written materials and providing verbal or picture-based instruction.
113. When working with a patient who speaks limited English, what should be avoided?
Using text only to teach
Using only traditional American food to teach.
This is Just A Preview:
114. What program teaches older adults how to shop, plan, and prepare nutritious meals, as well as conducting
hypertension assessments?
Download Full PDF (With All Pages) HERE:
Elderly Nutrition Program
https://www.paperstoc.com/downloads/17046/c787-nutrition-wgu-review-que
115. What is one way that programs seek to provide socialization to older adults?
stions-and-answers
Providing meals in group settings
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Answers
1. When nutrition advocates became concerned that recommendations did not do enough to address prevention of
chronic diet related diseases, what policy change were made?
RDA's (Recommended Daily Allowances) expanded into several DRI (Daily Reference Intakes)
2. What is true of dietary reference intake?
Food labeling must include information about them.
They differ depending on age and gender
3. What is always found on a nutrition label in the US?
Serving size
4. A healthful diet contains nutrient intake near what amount?
Recommended daily allowance
5. What is an appropriate use of AMDR (Acceptable Macronutrient Dietary Range) when evaluating the
appropriateness of a snack food?
50% calories from fat is too much.
6. What is meant by Tolerable Upper Intake Level?
The highest level of daily consumption that current data has shown to cause no side effects in humans; ensures
people do not take harmful amounts.
7. How is estimated average requirement commonly used?
To guide recommendations and menu planning for communities in combinations with upper intake levels.
This is Just A Preview:
8. What is true of choose my plate .gov recommendations as presented by their setting place graphic?
Half of the plate should be fruits and vegetables.
Download Full PDF (With All Pages) HERE:
9. What is the nutritional benefit of fruits and vegetables?
https://www.paperstoc.com/downloads/17046/c787-nutrition-wgu-review-que
They provide nutrients that reduce the risk some type of cancer.
stions-and-answers
10. What is false regarding fruits and vegetables in the diet?
This study source was downloaded by 100000864885202 from CourseHero.com on 07-10-2023 09:16:48 GMT -05:00
https://www.coursehero.com/file/201209480/C787-nutrition-WGU-Review-questions-and-Answerspdf/
, Fruits and vegetables are rich in vitamin B12
11. What strategy might be avoided due to expense for patients looking to eat more healthfully on a budget?
Buying frozen meals
12. Which statement is true about planning a balanced meal?
Skim milk has roughly the same amount of calcium and protein as whole milk.
13. What is true about dietary recommendation for whole grain intake?
Half of all whole grains consumed should be whole grain products.
14. Fritz is hosting a brunch and prepares for each of his friends
Omelet with cheese
Toasted English muffin
1t all fruit preserves
½ large grapefruit
1c whole milk
How can his menu be improved to follow the dietary guidelines for Americans?
Use egg whites for the omelets
Replace cheese with vegetables in the omelets
Replace English muffin with whole wheat English muffin
Replace whole milk with fat free milk
15. What is true of recommendations concerning trans fat and added sugar intake?
Trans fat and added sugar intake should be minimized. There is no DRI value.
What is recommended daily amount of protein intake?
60g/ day.
17. Which list contains all examples of protein?
Garbanzo beans (Chickpeas), egg, chicken breast, yogurt, cheese, ground beef, peanut butter, tofu
18. What is the best choice for a combination of plant-based foods to maximize healthy diet in a vegetarian diet?
This is Just A Preview:
Legume+ whole grain
19. There is aFull
Download current
PDFinitiative for more
(With Alltransparent
Pages)labeling
HERE: of sugars on nutrition fact labels. In the coming years,
which of these might be more obviously labeled sugars?
https://www.paperstoc.com/downloads/17046/c787-nutrition-wgu-review-que
Anything ending in-ose, honey
stions-and-answers
20. Which carbohydrate will cause a quick return to hunger?
This study source was downloaded by 100000864885202 from CourseHero.com on 07-10-2023 09:16:48 GMT -05:00
https://www.coursehero.com/file/201209480/C787-nutrition-WGU-Review-questions-and-Answerspdf/
, Ergogenic aid- athletic performance
Nootropic- cognition
Probiotic- digestive system
Galactagogue- breastmilk production.
83. Supplements may or may not contain an active ingredient. What else may they contain?
Extra ingredients that are unlisted and are similar to fillers in Rx drugs
84. How should you counsel a patient about providing information about the supplements they take to the healthcare
team?
"Supplements can interact with medicine and make the medicine's effect too strong. This can cause a life-threatening
event."
85. Match the nutrient to its deficiency:
Thiamine- beriberi
Iodine- brain damage, intellectual impairment, goiter
Vitamin A- blindness
Vitamin D- rickets
Why do many women take calcium supplements?
To reduce the risk of osteoporosis
87. Vitamin k:
Should be avoided while on warfarin (Coumadin)
88. What is unavailable in plant foods, and therefore may need to be consumed as a supplement to a vegetarian
diet?
Vitamin B12.
89. What nutrients are available in plant foods but may require special consideration in a vegetarian diet?
Iron
Vitamin D
Protein (can be very difficult on a vegetarian diet)
Calcium (must be a bioavailable form)
This is Just A Preview:
90. A limited ability to acquire nutritionally adequate foods in socially acceptable ways is called?
Download Full PDF (With All Pages) HERE:
Food insecurity
What is true of food waste and overpopulation?
https://www.paperstoc.com/downloads/17046/c787-nutrition-wgu-review-que
They are contributing factors to global hunger
stions-and-answers
This study source was downloaded by 100000864885202 from CourseHero.com on 07-10-2023 09:16:48 GMT -05:00
https://www.coursehero.com/file/201209480/C787-nutrition-WGU-Review-questions-and-Answerspdf/
, Development of standardized questionnaires for measuring household food security status.
105. The uneasy or painful sensation caused by the lack of food is known as....
Hunger
106. Which factor might be a cause of a patient's frequent ED visits for congestive heart failure?
The patient goes without medication because they cannot afford them until they are paid.
107. What problems of factors can be associated with food insecurity?
Poor nutrition
Trouble obtaining food
Obesity
Lower cognitive and academic performance
Poorer health status
108. What does SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) do?
Help low income families who have trouble affording food acquire food.
109. What is the most appropriate referral to have home meals delivered by Meals on Wheels?
Male, age 82, limited income, mobility issues and cannot drive.
Which is the most appropriate referral to the Women, infants, and Children program?
Female, age 22, speaks limited English, 6 months pregnant, low income, difficulty obtaining prenatal care.
111. What is not a primary consideration when addressing nutritional needs for a homeless patient?
Is the food fair-trade certified?
112. What is a major barrier to nutritional education, and a strategy for overcoming that barrier?
Illiteracy, screening for problems with written materials and providing verbal or picture-based instruction.
113. When working with a patient who speaks limited English, what should be avoided?
Using text only to teach
Using only traditional American food to teach.
This is Just A Preview:
114. What program teaches older adults how to shop, plan, and prepare nutritious meals, as well as conducting
hypertension assessments?
Download Full PDF (With All Pages) HERE:
Elderly Nutrition Program
https://www.paperstoc.com/downloads/17046/c787-nutrition-wgu-review-que
115. What is one way that programs seek to provide socialization to older adults?
stions-and-answers
Providing meals in group settings
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