Nutrition and Diet Therapy

Nutrition means

• Nutrition

• Food

• Nutrients

• Water

Overweight means

• Wellness

• Nutrition

• Malnutrition

• Health

Non-essential nutrients is metabolize by the body.

• True

• False

Anthropometric measurements include measures of

• height

• weight

• skinfold thickness

• None of choices

• All of the choices

The psychological want for food

• Appetite

• Hunger

• Cravings

• None of the above

Anthropometric measurement tool that is use to measure head and length

• Weighing scale

• Biochemical test

• calipher

• tape measure

Nutrients used for growth and healing body tissues

• vitamins, minerals, water

• carbohydrates, proteins, fats

• proteins, vitamins, mineral

• vitamins, water, mineral

Malnutrition is assessed by

• Food records and measurement of mineral status

• height for weight

• disease progression and blood presure instability

• how fast weight has been lost if there is diarrhea

Foods such as apple, avocado, lettuce and banana

• high nutrient density foods

• essential nutrient foods

• nutritious foods

• low nutrient density foods

The cumulative effect of high caloric diet and low nutrient density foods is

• diabetes

• malnutrition

• atherosclerosis

• none of the choices