HNF 150 - MSU Exam 1 Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Score Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) What is nutrition? - Correct Answers ✅study of how food nourishes the body Vitamin C - Correct Answers ✅protects cells against damage important for healthy gums and skin helps absorb iron prevents scurvy What are nutrients? - Correct Answers ✅components of food that are indispensable to the body's functioning What do nutrients provide? - Correct Answers ✅energy serve as building material maintain or repair body parts supports growth "Essential" Nutrients - Correct Answers ✅must be obtained from an external source because we can't make them ourselves or can't make enough Type of Nutrients - Correct Answers ✅Water Carbohydrates 1 / 3
HNF 150 - MSU Exam 1 Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Score Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) Lipids Proteins Vitamins Minerals What are calories? - Correct Answers ✅1 calorie = the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 liter of water 1 degree Celsius Nutrient Density - Correct Answers ✅foods rich in nutrients relative to their energy content (calories) *usually whole foods Why measure diet and nutrition? - Correct Answers ✅- characterize dietary patterns of individuals
- assess exposure to food, nutrients and non-nutrients
- identify population groups who do not have adequate
nutrition for preventing diseases How do we measure diet and nutrition? - Correct Answers ✅Anthropometric methods Clinical examination Diet Questionaries 2 / 3
HNF 150 - MSU Exam 1 Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Score Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) Biomarkers Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) - Correct Answers ✅measures usual amounts of foods commonly eaten over a time period Biomarkers - Correct Answers ✅measure nutrients or metabolites in bio fluids (blood, urine, saliva, tissues, hair nails, skin, etc.) Type of Studies - Correct Answers ✅Case studies Epidemiological studies Intervention studies Laboratory studies Case Studies - Correct Answers ✅studies of individuals Epidemiological Studies - Correct Answers ✅studies of population, often used in nutrition to search for correlations between dietary habits and disease incidence Intervention Studies - Correct Answers ✅studies of population in which observation is accompanied by experimental manipulation of some population members
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