Nutrition

Chapter 1 – Food Choices and Human Health

Chapter Learning Objectives

1.1 Discuss how daily food choices can help or harm the body’s health over time.

1.2 Describe the national Healthy People objectives for the nation, and identify some nutrition-related objectives.

1.3 Define the term nutrient and be able to list the six major nutrients.

1.4 Summarize the five characteristics of a healthy diet and describe cultural or other influences on human food choices.

1.5 Describe the major types of research studies and give reasons why national nutrition research is important for the health of the population.

1.6 List the major steps in behavior change and devise a plan for making successful long-term changes in the diet.

1.7 Define nutrient density and explain the advantages of choosing nutrient-dense foods.

1.8 Identify misleading nutrition information in infomercials, advertorials, and other sources in the popular media.

True/False Items

1. Malnutrition includes deficiencies, imbalances, and excesses of nutrients, any of which can be detrimental over time.

2. Good food choices can reduce the chance of developing chronic diseases.

3. Heart disease deaths have fallen substantially and the number of overweight people has declined based on evaluation of the nation’s progress toward achieving national health objectives.

4. The human genome is 99.9% the same in all people.

5. When a hospital client has to be fed through a vein, the duration should be as short as possible and real food should be reintroduced as early as possible.

6. Enriched and fortified foods are not necessarily more nutritious than whole basic foods.

7. Nutraceutical is a term that has no legal definition.

8. Cultural traditions regarding food are static and inflexible.

9. Once a new finding is published in a scientific journal, it is still only preliminary.

10. One of the diseases related to nutrition is heart disease, which is the leading cause of death in the...