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FSHN final exam Study Guide Solutions
essential - Ans:✔✔-a nutrient that must be consumed in the diet because it cannot be made by the
body, substance required for life
nutrition - Ans:✔✔-broad melting pot (social and psychological, cultural and economics, science)
nutrients - Ans:✔✔-substances in food used for growth, energy, structural, maintainence and health
six basic categories of nutrients - Ans:✔✔-CHO, protein, fat, water, minerals, vitamins
nutritions impact on development of disease - Ans:✔✔-nutrition is the key risk factor in most of the top
ten leading causes of death in the United States. But not all of them
Recommended dietary allowance (RDA) - Ans:✔✔-science first, nutrient intakes that are sufficient to
meet the needs of almost all healthy people in a specific gender and life stage group
myplate - Ans:✔✔-translational/consumer, set of a diet and lifestyle recommendations designed to
promote health and reduce the risk of overweight, obesity, and chronic disease. The actual servings are
the total energy required
dietary guidelines - Ans:✔✔-translational/consumer; proportional of food group, amount per servings
from each (determine caloric needs, set nutritional goals and specific food patterns)
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dietary reference intake (DRI) - Ans:✔✔-recommended in take levels which prevents deficiency but
addresses disease prevention and overconsumption (key stone standard that focuses in science of
nutrition)
Acceptable macronutrient distribution ranges (AMDR) - Ans:✔✔-makes recommendations about the
proportions of calories that should come from CHO, protein and fat in a healthy diet
ingestion - Ans:✔✔-mouth, taste buds, moisten food, form bolus and swallow
mechanical digestion - Ans:✔✔-mouth (chewing), stomach (churning and chyme) *stomach is the
primary site
chemical digestion - Ans:✔✔-mouth (amylace), stomach (acid and enzyme), small intestine (bicarbonate,
enzymes, pancreas and bile from gall bladder *SI is primary site, Large intestine (bacteria chemically
alters CHO)
end products of fat are absorbed into ________ end products of CHO and protein are absorbed into
__________ - Ans:✔✔-lymph vessels; blood stream
why does fat have more kcal per gram - Ans:✔✔-there is more energy "trapped" in the C-H bonds , then
you would have more so it is more energy
simple CHO - Ans:✔✔-monosaccharides, disaccharides
monosaccarides - Ans:✔✔-one sugar unit, glucose, fructose and galactose
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FSHN final exam Study Guide Solutions
essential - Ans:✔✔-a nutrient that must be consumed in the diet because it cannot be made by the
body, substance required for life
nutrition - Ans:✔✔-broad melting pot (social and psychological, cultural and economics, science)
nutrients - Ans:✔✔-substances in food used for growth, energy, structural, maintainence and health
six basic categories of nutrients - Ans:✔✔-CHO, protein, fat, water, minerals, vitamins
nutritions impact on development of disease - Ans:✔✔-nutrition is the key risk factor in most of the top
ten leading causes of death in the United States. But not all of them
Recommended dietary allowance (RDA) - Ans:✔✔-science first, nutrient intakes that are sufficient to
meet the needs of almost all healthy people in a specific gender and life stage group
myplate - Ans:✔✔-translational/consumer, set of a diet and lifestyle recommendations designed to
promote health and reduce the risk of overweight, obesity, and chronic disease. The actual servings are
the total energy required
dietary guidelines - Ans:✔✔-translational/consumer; proportional of food group, amount per servings
from each (determine caloric needs, set nutritional goals and specific food patterns)
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dietary reference intake (DRI) - Ans:✔✔-recommended in take levels which prevents deficiency but
addresses disease prevention and overconsumption (key stone standard that focuses in science of
nutrition)
Acceptable macronutrient distribution ranges (AMDR) - Ans:✔✔-makes recommendations about the
proportions of calories that should come from CHO, protein and fat in a healthy diet
ingestion - Ans:✔✔-mouth, taste buds, moisten food, form bolus and swallow
mechanical digestion - Ans:✔✔-mouth (chewing), stomach (churning and chyme) *stomach is the
primary site
chemical digestion - Ans:✔✔-mouth (amylace), stomach (acid and enzyme), small intestine (bicarbonate,
enzymes, pancreas and bile from gall bladder *SI is primary site, Large intestine (bacteria chemically
alters CHO)
end products of fat are absorbed into ________ end products of CHO and protein are absorbed into
__________ - Ans:✔✔-lymph vessels; blood stream
why does fat have more kcal per gram - Ans:✔✔-there is more energy "trapped" in the C-H bonds , then
you would have more so it is more energy
simple CHO - Ans:✔✔-monosaccharides, disaccharides
monosaccarides - Ans:✔✔-one sugar unit, glucose, fructose and galactose
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