Quiz #1

Question 1

What is Nutritional epidemiology?

Answer 1

Nutritional epidemiology: A moderately new field of medical research that
looks at the association between nutrition and disease

Question 2

____ was once a major driving factor in chronic illness.
Today, ____ but ____ is a major driver in chronic illness.

Answer 2

Undernutrition was once a major driving factor in chronic illness.
Today, overeating but malnourishment is a major driver in chronic illness.

Question 3

Malnourishment?

Answer 3

Improper balance of nutrients which could be over or under the required amounts

Question 4

What is undernutrition?

Answer 4

Insufficient intake of body’s nutritional needs

Question 5

What Six of the ten leading causes of death linked to diet, which can be prevented
(or delayed) by implementing healthy eating practices and making positive
lifestyle choices?

Answer 5

Heart disease
Cancer
Stroke
Alzheimer’s disease
Diabetes
Liver disease

Question 6

What is nutrition assessment?

Answer 6

Nutrition Assessment: a comprehensive
analysis of a person’s nutritional status
and health status that evaluates
-health
-anthropometric measures
-diet history
-physical examination
-pharmaceutical history
-laboratory tests
-Socioeconomic history

Question 7

5 determinants of health according to heathy people 2020?

Answer 7

-individual behavior
-physical environment
-social environment
-biology and genetics
-health services

Question 8

4 overarching goals of healthy people 2020?

Answer 8

1. Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, improve the health of all groups.
3. Create social and physical environment that promote good health for all.
4. Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life stages.

Question 8

What are the four steps of the NCP?

Answer 8

1. Nutrition assessment
2. Nutrition diagnosis
3. Nutrition interventions
4. Monitoring and evaluations

Question 8

What is the NCP?

Answer 8

The Nutrition Care Process: 4 Steps:

A standardized-model tool utilized by nutrition and dietetics professionals to improve the consistency and quality of individualized care for patients/clients or groups

Question 8

What anthropometric data?

Answer 8

• A non-invasive process
  for determining body
  fat mass
• Incorporates a number
  of human body dimensions

Question 8

What does step #1 of NCP involve?

Answer 8

Nutrition assessment:

Asking the question: What fundamental nutrition problems are present?

Patient data are collected: health history/clinical data, anthropometric data, dietary patterns, biometrics/biochemical data

Question 8

What does biometrics/biochemical data include?
What are things to consider about this data?

Answer 8

-The concentration of chemical substances in tissue and body fluids
-The appearance of different metabolites

-Literature supports the statement that laboratory
markers are not reliable as a standalone
assessment tools
-Ranges for disease are broader than ranges for imbalances, toxicities, inflammation, oxidative stress, etc.

Question 8

What does a health history/clinical data include?

Answer 8

Information such as medical diagnosis, recent hospital admissions, medications, changes in intake of food and fluids, food supply and preparation ability, weight changes

Question 8

What does step #2 to of NCP involve?

Answer 8

Nutrition diagnosis: What specific medical conditions have these problems caused?

A PES statement [problem (P), etiology (E),
and signs and symptoms (S)]

Question 9

What is a PES statement?

Answer 9

A PES statement (or Nutrition Diagnosis Statement) is a structured sentence
that describes the specific nutrition problem that you (the dietitian) is responsible
for treating and working toward resolving, the cause/s of the problem
and the evidence that this problem exists.

A PES statement has three elements: problem (P), etiology (E), and signs and symptoms (S).

Question 9

Ways to obtain dietary data?

Answer 9

Population statistics, dietary surveys, food diaries, 24-hour recall, food-frequency questionnaires, food-habit questionnaires

Question 10

What does step #3 of a NCP involve?

Answer 10

Nutrition Interventions:
What changes should be put in place to
address these issues, and how exactly will
these changes be enacted?

Considers the client’s barriers to
change - what is inhibiting him making
these changes? Finances, accessibility,
family support, etc.

Question 11

What does step #4 of a NCP involve?

Answer 11

How is the individual responding to the intervention(s)? Do any intervention(s) need to be adjusted in some way?