Digestion And Nutrition

Question 1

What does DV stand for

Answer 1

Daily value

Question 2

How many calories are …
Low?
Moderate?
High?

Answer 2

40
100
400

Question 3

What does RDA stand for?

Answer 3

Recommended Dietary Allowance

Question 4

Low sodium is…

Answer 4

140 milligrams or less

Question 5

Ingredients on the label are listed in order of …

Answer 5

Weight

Question 6

How can you tell if an ingredient is a type of sugar?

Answer 6

It will end in -ose or it will be syrup, molasses, fruit juices, honey

Question 7

For an item to be considered reduced fat, what percentage of fat has to be reduced?

Answer 7

25%

Question 8

The body’s physical response to the need for food

Answer 8

Hunger

Question 9

The desire, rather than the need, to eat certain foods

Answer 9

Appetite

Question 10

Basal metabolic rate (BMR)

Answer 10

The minimum amount of energy required to keep the body alive when in a rested and fasting state

Question 11

Being heavy for one’s height

Answer 11

Overweight

Question 12

Having access body far for one’s weight; The state of weighing more than 20% above your recommended body weight

Answer 12

Obesity

Question 13

What are some factors that affect the amount and type of food you eat?

Answer 13

Mood, traditions, social occasions, health concerns, cost and availability

Question 14

Carbohydrates and fat and proteins are nutrients that give energy. How is this energy measured?

Answer 14

Calories

Question 15

Why is eating breakfast in the morning so important?

Answer 15

Because it gives you a source of energy for your body and glucose for your brain

Question 16

What are a few examples of basic functions that need food energy?

Answer 16

Breathing, circulating blood, growing

Question 17

What are some functions that need some body fat?

Answer 17

Energy storage, insulation, protect internal organs

Question 18

Where are the two main reasons why increasing numbers of Americans are overweight?

Answer 18

Our lack of physical activity and our changing diet

Question 19

The proportion of body weight that is made up of fat tissue compared to lean tissue

Answer 19

Body composition

Question 20

An index of weight in relation to height that is used to assess healthy body weight

Answer 20

Body mass index

Question 21

A diet that requires a major change in eating habits and promises quick weight loss

Answer 21

Fad diet

Question 22

What are three examples of dangerous weight-loss practices

Answer 22

Fad diets, diet pills, surgery

Question 23

How you see and feel about your appearance and how comfortable you are with your body

Answer 23

Body image

Question 24

An eating disorder that involves self starvation, distorted body image and low bodyweight

Answer 24

Anorexia nervosa

Question 25

An eating disorder in which the individual repeatedly eats large amounts of food and then uses behaviors such as vomiting or using laxatives to rid the body of the food

Answer 25

Bulimia nervosa

Question 26

Eating a large amount food in one sitting; usually accompanied by a feeling of being out of control

Answer 26

Binge eating

Question 27

Engaging in behaviors such as vomiting or misusing laxatives to rid the body of food

Answer 27

Purging

Question 28

Abnormal response to the food that is triggered by the immune system

Answer 28

Food allergy

Question 29

Lactose intolerance

Answer 29

The inability to completely digest the milk sugar lactose

Question 30

An illness caused by eating or drinking a food that contains a toxin or disease causing microorganism

Answer 30

Foodborne illness

Question 31

The transfer of contaminants from one food to another

Answer 31

Cross-contamination

Question 32

What is the process that moves food through the digestive tract

Answer 32

Peristalsis

Question 33

What is a mixture of partly digested food and stomach enzymes

Answer 33

Chyme

Question 34

What are villi

Answer 34

Millions of tiny fingerlike projections that line the small intestine, they take in nutrients