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NTR 301 Exam Questions with Correct
Answers
• While studying for your NTR 301 exam, you decide to take a study break and flip through some ancient
medical texts in DH Hill Library. The physician who wrote one of the ancient texts describes his
observations of patients as exhibiting mental confusion, paralysis, tingling and loss of feeling in the feet
and hands, and vomiting. He reports that several patients ultimately die of this mysterious condition. He
observes that when he supplements the patients' diets with liver, whole grains and beef, the patients'
symptoms are reversed. Based on this description, you can assume that these foods contain: - Ans:✔✔-o
An essential nutrient
• You decide to take another study break and check Instagram to see what your friends have been doing
while you have been studying. While scrolling Instagram you see an advertisement for a new supplement
called "Phyto-plus" that claims, "This product contains phytonutrients, compounds typically found in
fruits and vegetables, that may protect against certain diseases." Is this claim true or false? - Ans:✔✔-o
True
• While walking back to your study desk in the library, you pass by a shelf of new diet books. You see one
about the "Macro" Diet. Seeing the word "macro" in the title, you hypothesize that this diet plan
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probably encourages the individual to consume only macronutrients, why you know to be problematic
because: - Ans:✔✔-o Both macronutrients and micronutrients are essential for life and growth
o Micronutrients, while present in food in relatively small amounts, still have daily requirements
• You are still in the library studying and decide to treat yourself to a Wolfpack Mocha. You select the 16-
ounce size, which you see contains 30g of carbohydrate, 20g of fat, and 10g of protein. Using the
information provided, how many calories are in the Wolfpack Mocha? - Ans:✔✔-o 340 calories (30*4 +
20*9 + 10*4)
• After you finish the Wolfpack Mocha you remember that you have some chocolate in your backpack.
You open your backpack and find two types of chocolate:
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups = 210 calories
Awake Chocolate Bar (caffeinated) = 230 calories
Which of the following is true about the two types of chocolate? - Ans:✔✔-o Both products will provide
you with the energy in the form of calories but only the Awake Chocolate Bar will leave you with an
energetic/alert feeling, due to caffeine not calories.
• This direct relationship can lead to reversible side effects or irreversible toxic effects - Ans:✔✔-o Excess
• Public health recommendations to limit trans-fat are designed to avoid this level of intake
` - Ans:✔✔-o Overconsumption
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• A combination of recommendations provided in specific amounts and in percentage of total calories
help to ensure this level of intake - Ans:✔✔-o Optimal
• Limited access to fruits and vegetables can be one factor in the development of chronic diseases due
to this level of intake - Ans:✔✔-o Marginal
• Sheldon buys a time machine and convinces Leonard and Wolowitz to test it out with him. He sets the
time machine to the 1940s because he wants to know how nutrition guidance has changed over time.
Much to Leonard's dismay, the time machine works! What do scientists discover? - Ans:✔✔-o Doctors
are not providing recommendations on how much carbohydrate or fat patients should be consuming, all
they talk about is protein.
o Dieticians working in a nursing home give their elderly patients a multivitamin with lower levels of
certain vitamins because they assume that their needs of those vitamins are lower now that they have
aged.
• Last week, your roommate Emily ate an orange for lunch every day; however, this week, she ran out of
oranges and hasn't eaten any. She knows your taking NTR 301, so she confesses that she is worried that
she might develop scurvy and asks you what you think. What should you tell Emily? - Ans:✔✔-o "Emily
you should not worry about developing scurvy, since it is a deficiency disease that tend to occur from
little to no intake of vitamin C over weeks to years. You likely have other sources of vitamin C in your diet,
putting you at little risk for developing this deficiency disease."
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NTR 301 Exam Questions with Correct
Answers
• While studying for your NTR 301 exam, you decide to take a study break and flip through some ancient
medical texts in DH Hill Library. The physician who wrote one of the ancient texts describes his
observations of patients as exhibiting mental confusion, paralysis, tingling and loss of feeling in the feet
and hands, and vomiting. He reports that several patients ultimately die of this mysterious condition. He
observes that when he supplements the patients' diets with liver, whole grains and beef, the patients'
symptoms are reversed. Based on this description, you can assume that these foods contain: - Ans:✔✔-o
An essential nutrient
• You decide to take another study break and check Instagram to see what your friends have been doing
while you have been studying. While scrolling Instagram you see an advertisement for a new supplement
called "Phyto-plus" that claims, "This product contains phytonutrients, compounds typically found in
fruits and vegetables, that may protect against certain diseases." Is this claim true or false? - Ans:✔✔-o
True
• While walking back to your study desk in the library, you pass by a shelf of new diet books. You see one
about the "Macro" Diet. Seeing the word "macro" in the title, you hypothesize that this diet plan
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probably encourages the individual to consume only macronutrients, why you know to be problematic
because: - Ans:✔✔-o Both macronutrients and micronutrients are essential for life and growth
o Micronutrients, while present in food in relatively small amounts, still have daily requirements
• You are still in the library studying and decide to treat yourself to a Wolfpack Mocha. You select the 16-
ounce size, which you see contains 30g of carbohydrate, 20g of fat, and 10g of protein. Using the
information provided, how many calories are in the Wolfpack Mocha? - Ans:✔✔-o 340 calories (30*4 +
20*9 + 10*4)
• After you finish the Wolfpack Mocha you remember that you have some chocolate in your backpack.
You open your backpack and find two types of chocolate:
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups = 210 calories
Awake Chocolate Bar (caffeinated) = 230 calories
Which of the following is true about the two types of chocolate? - Ans:✔✔-o Both products will provide
you with the energy in the form of calories but only the Awake Chocolate Bar will leave you with an
energetic/alert feeling, due to caffeine not calories.
• This direct relationship can lead to reversible side effects or irreversible toxic effects - Ans:✔✔-o Excess
• Public health recommendations to limit trans-fat are designed to avoid this level of intake
` - Ans:✔✔-o Overconsumption
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• A combination of recommendations provided in specific amounts and in percentage of total calories
help to ensure this level of intake - Ans:✔✔-o Optimal
• Limited access to fruits and vegetables can be one factor in the development of chronic diseases due
to this level of intake - Ans:✔✔-o Marginal
• Sheldon buys a time machine and convinces Leonard and Wolowitz to test it out with him. He sets the
time machine to the 1940s because he wants to know how nutrition guidance has changed over time.
Much to Leonard's dismay, the time machine works! What do scientists discover? - Ans:✔✔-o Doctors
are not providing recommendations on how much carbohydrate or fat patients should be consuming, all
they talk about is protein.
o Dieticians working in a nursing home give their elderly patients a multivitamin with lower levels of
certain vitamins because they assume that their needs of those vitamins are lower now that they have
aged.
• Last week, your roommate Emily ate an orange for lunch every day; however, this week, she ran out of
oranges and hasn't eaten any. She knows your taking NTR 301, so she confesses that she is worried that
she might develop scurvy and asks you what you think. What should you tell Emily? - Ans:✔✔-o "Emily
you should not worry about developing scurvy, since it is a deficiency disease that tend to occur from
little to no intake of vitamin C over weeks to years. You likely have other sources of vitamin C in your diet,
putting you at little risk for developing this deficiency disease."
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