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What do you call it when you embrace food as a source of energy, healing, and joy

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Wellness Nutrition

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What is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being an not merely the absence o disease and infirmity?

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Health (WHO, 1946)

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What is a quality of life involving social, emotional, mental, spiritual, and biological fitness on the part of the individual, which result from adaptations to the environment?

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Health (Rene Dubos, 1968)

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What is a lifestyle (pattern of behaviors) that enhances our level of health?

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Wellness

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What occurs through the development o each of the six dimensions of health?

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Wellness

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What are the 6 dimensions of wellness?

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  • Spiritual
  • Vocational
  • Emotional
  • Intellectual
  • Physical
  • Social
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What is the study of food and how the body uses it?

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Nutrition

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What relates to growth, reproduction, health, and disease?

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Nutrition

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What do you call the process of taking in nutrients?

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Absorption

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What do you call the process of using the nutrients that were absorbed?

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Assimilation

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What do you call the process of building new cells from the nutrients that were absorbed by the body?

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Biosynthesis

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What do you call the breakdown of nutrients?

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Catabolism

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What involves food plans for medical or nutritional reasons that helps patients understand how nutrients affect health conditions?

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Diet Therapy

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What sustains life, provides energy, promotes growth, supports vital processes, and is the carrier of nourishment?

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Food

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TRUE OR FALSE:
The vision of ‘Healthy People 2030 Framework’ is to be A society in which all people can achieve their full potential for health and well-being across the lifespan.

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TRUE

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What do you call chemical substances found in food?

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Nutrients

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What are essential for energy, growth, repair, and body functions?

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Nutrients

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What are the determinants of health 2030?

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  • Genetics
  • Nutrition
  • Lifestyle
  • Environment
  • Medical Care
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What is the process of regularly tracking and evaluating a person’s dietary intake and nutritional status to ensure they are meeting their health and nutrition goals?

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Nutrition Monitoring

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National Nutrition Monitoring Act of _______ (year)

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1990

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What is the recognition of a danger to health that could be reduced or alleviated through specific actions or changes in lifestyle behaviors?

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Disease Prevention

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What are the three classifications of disease prevention?

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  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Tertiary
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What is important to provide culturally competent and respectful care?

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Diet and nutrition assessment

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What i the ability to acquire, comprehend, communicate, and apply basic health information such as nutrition, and apply them to one’s own health decisions (CDC, 2016)?

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Health literacy

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What is purposefully planned for implementation in an educational setting?
Formal Education
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What takes place in organized learning events outside of school like in hospitals, clinics, and community centers?
Nonformal Education
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This is learning that happens in everyday life including watching television news and other programs, reading newspapers and magazines, browsing the Internet, and conversing with other people.
Informal education
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What key influencing factors of health literacy create settings to receive support for health-promoting behaviors?
Social Factors
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What key influencing factors of health literacy are the choices persons make to acquire and then apply health knowledge?
Individual factors
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What key influencing factors of health literacy encompass ethnic, religious, and racial health traditions?
Cultural factors
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TRUE/FALSE: Changing or maintaining our patterns of behaviors is the key to achieving wellness.
TRUE
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What are the 3 Foods the Soul Needs?
- “THE WORD OF GOD-BREAD FOR THE SPIRIT” Matthew 4:4 - “Worship water for the heart” John 4:23 - “Prayer-Oxygen for the soul”
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The basic function or nutrition is to ___________ by allowing an individual to grown and be in a state of ____________.
1. Maintain life 2. Optimum Health
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What breaks down food and nutrients to support body functions?
Digestion
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Solid organs include the?
- Liver - Pancreas - Gallbladder
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What is a series of hollow organs that connect to digest and move food through your body. It includes your mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine and large intestine?
GI tract
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What are the 4 steps of Digestion?
- Ingestion - Digestion - Absorption - Elimination
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What are the main categories of nutrients? (6)
- Carbohydrates - Fats - Proteins - Minerals and Electrolytes - Vitamins - Water
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What refers to the amount of nutrients in a food relative to its calorie content?
Nutrient Density
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What is this: - Provide energy for cellular work (4 calories per gram) - Help regulate protein and fat metabolism - Essential for heart and CNI function - Stored as glycogen in the liver and muscles for backup energy
Carbohydrates
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What lowers blood sugar and is released by beta cells in the pancreas when blood sugar is high?
Insulin
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What raises blood sugar and is released after meals in response to decreased blood glucose?
Glucagon
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What is a stress hormone that releases glucose stored in the liver?
Epinephrine
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What provides an estimate of how foods affect glucose level?
Glycemic Index
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What part of the body prefers carbohydrates as their main energy source?
Brain & Nerves
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What uses carbohydrates only for fuel?
Red Blood Cells
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What do you call this: Prolonged bottle use during sleep can cause tooth decay.
Nursing Bottle Syndrome
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What do you call this: Bacteria interact with dietary proteins, producing acids that harm gums?
Periodontal Disease
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Disruptions in carbohydrate metabolism can contribute to?
Diabetes
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What include fats, oils and waxes, and give more energy than carbohydrates?
Lipids
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TRUE/FALSE: Low-Fiber Diet risks may lead to diverticula.
TRUE
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What are called **Neutral fats**?
Simple Lipids
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What do you call the combination of fats with other components?
Compound Lipids
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What is the main fuel forms of fat and is used by cells for energy?
Fatty Acids
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What essential fatty acids are from **animals like beef and pork**?
Saturated fats
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What essential fatty acids are from **plant sources like olive oil and peanut oil**?
Monounsaturated fats
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What essential fatty acids is from **vegetable oils like soybean and sunflower**?
Polyunsaturated fats
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What is the water-soluble component of triglycerides?
Glycerol
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What is a class of fat-related substance that contain sterols?
Steroid
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TRUE/FALSE: Saturated Fats - Animal Origin Unsaturated Fats - Plant Origin
TRUE
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What can be made into **eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and decosahexaenoic acid (DHA)** which are essential for growth and development, prevention or treatment of heart disease, hypertension, arthritis, and cancer?
Linolenic Acid (Omega-3)
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What keep the balance of nitrogen and water in the body and serves as backup energy when carbs and fats aren’t enough?
Protein
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How many calories of energy does each gram of protein give?
4 calories
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What is a condition resulting from insufficiency of protein or energy in the diet?
Protein-Energy Malnutrition (PEM)
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What do you call severe deprivation of food over a long period of time characterized by insufficiency of protein and energy intake?
Marasmus
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What condition reflects an abrupt and recent deprivation of food which develops rapidly as a consequence of protein deficiency?
Kwashiorkor
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TRUE/FALSE: All body cells contain some form of protein.
TRUE
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What are used at every cellular level for metabolic exchanges & **maintaining homeostasis**?
Minerals
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What is used for **bone nourishment**, catalyst for enzyme reactions, nerve or muscle functions, Cardio Vascular support?
Magnesium
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What **maintains fluid volume balance (ADH)**, acid-base balance, allows muscle contractions, and cardiovascular support?
Sodium (Na)
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What is used for **fluid and electrolyte balance and acid-base balance**; contributes to the acidity necessary for the stomach (HCI); bonds to other minerals (especially sodium) to facilitate cellular actions and reactions?
Chloride (CI)
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What is used for **bone and teeth formation**, acid-base balance, component of every cell, energy transfer of RNA/DNA?
Phosphorus
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What is used to **maintain fluid volume inside/outside cells**, muscle action/relaxant, blood pressure, cardiovascular support?
Potassium (K)
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What is the **carrier of oxygen needed for cellular respiration**, hemoglobin formation, involved in the conversion of betacarotene into vitamin A, antibody production, collagen synthesis?
Iron (Fe)
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What is used for the **synthesis of thyroxine**, **regulates metabolism**?
Iodine (I)
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What is used for *cellular function support**, present in RNA, enhances wound healing, helps maintain a normal sense of taste
Zinc (Zn)
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What is used to **strengthen bones and teeth**?
Fluoride (FI)
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How many percent does the water take up in our body?
60% in adult
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What makes up the largest portion of our body weight?
Water
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