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Provide energy, Contribute to body structure, Regulate chemical processes

Nutrients are classified into which two categories? fats and sugars vitamins and minerals macronutrient and micronutrients proteins and carbohydrates

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What is the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth?

What are the three main functions of nutrition?

What is another term for energy-giving foods?

Which type of foods help our body grow bigger and stronger?

What type of foods are rich in vitamins and minerals?

What is a representation of the optimal number of servings to be eaten each day from each of the basic food groups?

Nutrients are classified into which two categories?

Which nutrients include carbohydrates, proteins, and fats?

Which nutrients include vitamins, minerals, and water?

What are the guidelines developed by scientific panels to provide a comprehensive framework for assessing and planning diets?

What are the daily nutrient intake levels called?

What are the intakes that should be used as a goal when no RDA exists?

What presents the highest daily intake of a nutrient that is unlikely to pose a risk of adverse health effects?

What are nutrient intake levels estimated to meet the needs of half the healthy individuals in a particular life stage or gender group?

What compounds make up food?

Which compounds include proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates?

Which compounds include minerals and water?

What acts as catalysts which prompt the three major nutrients: carbohydrates, protein, and fats?

What is the totality of the chemical processes in the body in which substances are changed into other substances to sustain life?

What is the Greek word for metabolism, meaning change?

What are the three major functions of metabolism?

What is the process in which large molecules are broken down?

What is the process in which large molecules are built from small molecules?

What is the force or power that enables the body to do its work, mostly dealing with chemical energy?

What are the energy-yielding food factors?

What is a unit of energy and a standard unit in measuring heat?

What is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 g of water by 1°C?

What is the amount of energy required to raise 1 kilogram of water by 1°C, also known as a kilocalorie?

What is the measure of energy in the metric system?

What is the total calories used for all activities over a given period of time?

What represents the energy expenditure during quiet sleep and accounts for 60-70% of daily energy consumption?

What is the amount of energy required for food digestion, absorption, and metabolism of nutrients?

What is the energy expenditure related to physical activity?

By how many percent does metabolic rate decrease every 10 years?

During the last two trimesters of pregnancy, how many additional kcal/day are required?

What is the condition of a population's or individual's health as influenced by the intake and utilization of nutrients?

What are the internal factors influencing nutritional status?

What are the external environmental factors affecting nutritional status?

What is the interpretation from dietary, laboratory, anthropometric, and clinical studies to determine nutritional status?

What methods deal with the individual and measure objective criteria in nutritional assessment?

What methods use community indices to reflect the community nutritional status/needs?

What are the direct methods of nutritional assessment summarized as ABCD?

What are the anthropometric methods used in nutritional assessment?

What is an easy-to-obtain anthropometric measure and a good predictor of risk of imminent death?

What tool is used to measure the double fold of skin and subcutaneous fat?

What is routinely measured during the first 2 years of life to monitor brain growth?

What is the BMI age percentile range for a healthy weight?

What are the samples used in biochemical and laboratory methods for nutritional assessment?

What is an essential feature of all nutritional surveys, utilizing physical signs associated with malnutrition?

What are the two forms of protein energy malnutrition?

What is the spectrum of ocular disease caused by severe Vitamin A deficiency?

What is the thiamin-deficiency disease characterized by loss of sensation and muscular weakness?

What is the condition caused by riboflavin deficiency, also known as ariboflavinosis?

What is the systemic disease caused by a severe deficiency of niacin (vitamin B3)?

What disease is caused by a serious vitamin C deficiency?

What is the condition characterized by the softening and weakening of bones in children due to vitamin D deficiency?

What is the enlargement of the thyroid due to iodine deficiency called?

What condition is caused by calcium deficiency?

What are the five methods used to assess nutritional intake of humans?

What method involves a list of around 100 food items to indicate intake frequency and quantity?

What method involves a trained interviewer asking the subject to recall all food and drinks taken in the previous 24 hours?

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