Lifestyle, Nutrition and Health

Question 1

The world health organization defines health as?

Answer 1

Physical, mental and social health, not merely absence of disease

Question 2

Accoriding to Te Whare Tapa Wha, what are the 4 cornerstones of health?

Answer 2

Family, Physical, Mental, Spiritual

Question 3

4 biggest killers in NZ and western world

Answer 3

Heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes

Question 4

Life expectancy in 1900?

Answer 4

47-50

Question 5

Current life expectancy

Answer 5

82

Question 6

What is a chronic disease?

Answer 6

A long-term illness that often gets progressively worse

Question 7

What % of Nz smoke

Answer 7

13%

Question 8

What are noncommunicable diseases?

Answer 8

Diseases that are not transferrable from one person to another

Question 9

What is a bening tumor?

Answer 9

non-cancerous and non-spreading

Question 10

What is a malignant tumor?

Answer 10

cancerous and capable of spreading

Question 11

Why is a benine tumor not capapble of spreading?

Answer 11

Because it is within a membrane

Question 12

What % of energy intake should be fat?

Answer 12

Below 30%

Question 13

What is a blue zone?

Answer 13

Areas in which people have low rates of chronic disease and live longer

Question 14

what is a non common habbit for people within blue zones

Answer 14

Lots of red meat

Question 15

What food type is commonly eaten by the blue zone?

Answer 15

Legumes

Question 16

What is it called when cancer cells establish new tumor sites in the body?

Answer 16

Athereosclerosis

Question 17

What is angeogenesis

Answer 17

Growth of new blood vessles to tumors

Question 18

What is a thrombrosis

Answer 18

a Blood clot

Question 19

2 main types of cholesterol

Answer 19

LDL and HDL

Question 20

Why is high-density Lipoprotein good?

Answer 20

Removes cholesterol from artery walls and tissues to liver

Question 21

What is atherosclerosis

Answer 21

The buildup of fats/cholesterol on the artery walls

Question 22

What is another name for a stroke?

Answer 22

Cerebro‐Vascular Accident

Question 23

what is a stroke?

Answer 23

Death of brain tissue due to lack of oxygen

Question 24

What is cerebral thombrosis

Answer 24

Stroke caused by a blood clot

Question 25

What is metabolic syndrome

Answer 25

Cluster of conditions that increase heart disease, stroke and diabetes risk

Question 26

What are essential nutrients

Answer 26

Nutrients the body needs from food because it cannot make them itself

Question 27

what are general Atwater factors

Answer 27

A measure of how much energy is in each nutrient

Question 28

How much energy is in 1g of CHO?

Answer 28

16kj/4cal

Question 29

How much energy is in 1g of protein

Answer 29

17kj / 4kcal

Question 30

How much energy is in 1g of Fat

Answer 30

37kj/9cal

Question 31

What are proteins made up of?

Answer 31

Amino Acids

Question 32

of 20, how many amino acids are essential?

Answer 32

9

Question 33

What is a complete protein source?

Answer 33

Foods that supply all 9 essential amino acids in adequate amounts

Question 34

What are adipocytes?

Answer 34

fat cells

Question 35

What are unhealthy fats?

Answer 35

Saturated and trans fat

Question 36

What is fibre?

Answer 36

Non digestable carbs

Question 37

Two types of fiber

Answer 37

Water soluble and water insoluble

Question 38

Downside to refined sugar and grain

Answer 38

Retain all the calories but lose many of the nutrients

Question 39

What is not a benefit of whole grain

Answer 39

Contain less calories

Question 40

for a substance to be a vitamin it must be

Answer 40

Essential for growth and not synthesizable by the body

Question 41

2 types of vitamins

Answer 41

Water soluable, fat soluable

Question 42

What is not a function of vitamins

Answer 42

Energy

Question 43

What is an anti-oxidant?

Answer 43

Substance that protects against the breakdown of cells by free radicals

Question 44

What is a free radical?

Answer 44

A chemically unstable compound that can damage cells

Question 45

What cooking method doesnt not help prevent vitamin loss?

Answer 45

Boiling

Question 46

What is not a function of vit C

Answer 46

Maintaining bone mineral density

Question 47

What is not a function of Vit D

Answer 47

Production of structural proteins

Question 48

What is a mineral?

Answer 48

Compounds needed for regulation, growth, and maintenance of functions

Question 49

Iron is primarily used for?

Answer 49

Making Hemaglobin

Question 50

What is hemaglobin?

Answer 50

A protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen

Question 51

what type of iron is more easily absorbed

Answer 51

Haem iron

Question 52

2 types of iron

Answer 52

Haem and non Haem

Question 53

what vit enhances iron absorbtion

Answer 53

Vitamin C

Question 54

WHat is not a function of zinc?

Answer 54

Absorbing iron

Question 55

What is not a water source for humans?

Answer 55

Vitamins

Question 56

What are health models?

Answer 56

Frameworks that guide health promotion and disease prevention

Question 57

WHat is the medical model?

Answer 57

Health is attributed to absence of disease

Question 58

What is hollistic health

Answer 58

The idea that various systems should be viewed as wholes

Question 59

What was the major outcome for the Ottawa charter

Answer 59

Health for all by 2000 and beyond

Question 60

Major focus from the Ottawa charter

Answer 60

Preventing disease

Question 61

Main benefit of cooking food

Answer 61

Breaks down connective tissue, making it easier to digest

Question 62

What is it called when the body switches from burning carbs to burning fats

Answer 62

Ketosis

Question 63

1 standard drink =

Answer 63

10g alcohol

Question 64

5 characteristics of the Ottawa charter

Answer 64

Developing Personality Skills, Reorienting Health Services, Strengthen Community Action, Creating Supportive Enviroments, and Building healthy Public Policy

Question 65

Where are the 5 blue zones

Answer 65

Greece, Japan, California, Costa rica, Italy

Question 66

How to calculate energy % in CHO, Protein or Fat?

Answer 66

EG. Fat (37%) 37 x (amount) / Total energy x 100