Introduction and history

Question 1

Food, nutrient composition, eating habits,
nutritional status, and health & diseases of
individuals and populations.

Answer 1

Nutrition

Question 2

State of complete physical, mental and social
well-being and not merely the absence of disease
or infirmity. (WHO)

Answer 2

Health

Question 3

Chemical substances obtained from the food and used in
the body to provide energy, to build and repair tissue and
regulating agents to support growth, maintenance and
repair tissues.

Answer 3

Nutrients

Question 4

Essential nutrients that provide energy and are classified
as proteins, carbohydrates and fats.

Answer 4

Macronutrients

Question 5

Essential nutrients that the body needs in small amount;
they serve to regulate and control the functions of the
body; all micronutrients are either vitamins or minerals.

Answer 5

Micronutrients

Question 6

It is any substance, organic or inorganic, when ingested
or eaten, nourishes the body by building and repairing
tissues, supplying heat and energy and regulating bodily
processes

Answer 6

Food

Question 7

Nutrients that they must obtain from food because the
body cannot make them for itself in sufficient quantity to
meet physiological needs.

Answer 7

Essential Nutrients

Question 8

Usual pattern of food and drink intake of by a person

Answer 8

Diet

Question 9

Nutrients and substances found naturally in food, in
proper amounts and proportions needed by the body to
function.

Answer 9

Balanced diet

Question 10

Condition of the body resulting from intake
absorption and utilization of food.

Answer 10

Nutritional status or nutriture

Question 11

Condition caused by deficit or excessive energy,
nutrient intake, or nutrient imbalance.

Answer 11

Imabalanced nutrition or malnutrition

Question 12

Under consumption of food energy and
nutrients.

Answer 12

Under nutrition

Question 13

over consumption of food energy and nutrients

Answer 13

Over nutrition

Question 14

Organic substances that produces by special
cells of the body which are discharged into the
blood to be circulated and brought to specific
tissues or organs that are remote from the
source of manufacture.

Answer 14

Hormones

Question 15

Organic catalysts that are protein in nature and
are produced by living cells. They are responsible
for most of chemical reactions in the body.

Answer 15

Enzymes

Question 16

The father of medicine

Answer 16

Hippocrates

Question 17

The Father of nutrition and chemistry

Answer 17

Antoine Lavoisier

Question 18

Polish doctor who discovered Vitamins

Answer 18

Casimir Funk

Question 19

Role of nutrition education was focused in this period

Answer 19

Biological era

Question 20

Cellular metabolism, genetic engineering

Answer 20

Cellular era

Question 21

The course centers on the fundamentals of
nutrition science as they relate to human life and
growth. It includes the study of nutrients– their
nature, functions, interrelationships and
utilization in the body, food sources,
requirements and deficiencies.

Answer 21

Basic nutrition