D 440 / D440 Objective Assessment (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) Health and Wellness Through Nutritional Science | Competed Study Guide Questions and Answers | Grade A | 100% Correct - WGU
Question:
What diet prevents UTI?
Answer:
Cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, and other berries, probiotics (yogurt) Avoid foods and drinks that cause bladder irritation, such as coffee, tea, soft drinks, and chocolate, avoid smoking.
Question:
Edentulous patients (no teeth)
Answer:
Soft foods, easy to eat meals Avoid coarse-textured foods 1 / 4
Question:
What foods should neutropenic patients (low WBC) avoid?
Answer:
Avoid salad bars and buffets when eating out.
Wash fruits and vegetables well or peel and discard the outer layer.
Cooked vegetables, canned fruits, and juices, canned or bottled roasted nuts, dried fruits, cooked pasta, rice, or other grains
Avoid raw or rare-cooked meat, fish, and eggs, unpasteurized dairy products, fresh and packaged food past their "use by" and expiration dates.
Question:
What kind of diet should you see in patients with an infection?
Answer:
protein rich foods
Question:
When can a person progress from a clear liquid to a regular diet?
Answer:
Advance as tolerated and when prescribed, and when bowel sounds return 2 / 4
Question:
Foods high in carbs:
Answer:
white bread, beans, milk popcorn, potatoes, rice, white pasta, white rice, sweets, potato chips, yogurt.
Question:
Foods high in fats:
Answer:
Vegetable oils (safflower, corn, cottonseed, soybean, peanut, olive), bacon, sausage, cream, ice cream, butter, cheese
Question:
Foods high in protein:
Answer:
Egg, milk cheese, meat, poultry, fish, tofu
Question:
What is the main use for carbs?
Answer:
main source of energy, source of fiber, sparing protein breakdown. 3 / 4
Question:
What is the main use of fat?
Answer:
fuel source for cellular energy, flavor, feeling of satiety, energy storage, regulation of body temperature, protection of vital organs, forms cell membranes, protects/facilitates nerve impulse transmission, bile precursor, precursor to some hormones, brain functions, retinal functions
Question:
What is the main use of protein?
Answer:
structural tissue building, water balance through osmotic pressure, buffer agent to help maintain pH balance, digestion, and metabolism through enzymatic action (amylase, lipase, proteases), cell signaling (hormones), and transport (hemoglobin and transferrin), immunity (antibodies), source of energy
Question:
What does a high fat diet lead to?
Answer:
Adipose tissue increases, elevated cholesterol levels
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