NR228 / NR-228 Exam 1 (Latest
Update 2024 / 2025): Nutrition,
Health & Wellness | Complete Guide with Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct - Chamberlain
Question:
What are the daily recommended intakes for cholesterol (based on a 2000 kcal diet)?
What is the recommended total cholesterol level per day if LDL is elevated?
Answer:
less than 300mg
less than 200mg
Question:
blood test used to assess a person's risk of developing CV disease (screening) and to evaluate treatment of unhealthy lipid levels (monitoring)
Answer:
lipid profile 1 / 4
Question:
What is better, butter or margarine?
Answer:
margarine because it contains more monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats than butter
Question:
- poly and mono
- lowers rates of CV disease
- lowers bad cholesterol and triglyceride levels
- provides essential fats
Answer:
unsaturated fats (LOVE IT)
Question:
- increases risk of CV disease
- raises bad (LDL) cholesterol levels
- less than 10% of diet
- chicken with thigh skin
- ground beef
- lard
Answer:
saturated fats (LIMIT IT) 2 / 4
Question:
- increases risk of CV disease
- raises bad (LDL) cholesterol levels
- less than 10% of diet
- donuts
- partially hydrogenated vegetable oil
Answer:
artificial trans fat, hydrogenated oils, and tropical oils (LOSE IT)
Question:
What should a person with heart disease limit their daily intake of fat to?
Answer:
less than 7% of total calories
Question:
canola oil olive oil peanut oil lard palm oil
Answer:
healthiest to least healthy fats 3 / 4
Question:
- building blocks of proteins
- 20-22 the body requires
- 9 are considered essential because the body must obtain them from food
- 11 are non essential because the body will make these
- liver stores all amino acids and is the primary site of amino acid metabolism
- vitamin B6 and insulin increase absorption
- low gastric acidity (when stomach secretes less hydrochloric acid) and few
pancreatic enzymes decrease absorption
Answer:
amino acids
Question:
Which part of the digestive tract facilitates movement of amino acids from the gastrointestinal system into the bloodstream?
Answer:
the small intestine
Question:
- contains all 9 essential amino acids for growth and maintenance
- fish, poultry, eggs, beef, pork, dairy, tofu, soy
Answer:
complete proteins
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