Which Condition Is The Most Nutrition Responsive

Question: Which medical conditions would be the most responsive to nutrition intervention?

Answer: Iron- Deficiency, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, hypertension.

Question: How many classes do nutrients fall into? What are they?

Answer: Six; Water, Minerals, Vitamins, Lipids, Carbs, Proteins

Question: What are organic nutrients?

Answer: Carbon containing nutrients/foods

Question: Which nutrients yield energy?

Answer: Carbs, fats, protein

Question: What does essential mean?

Answer: Nutrients the body can’t make for itself from other raw materials.

Question: Fortified

Answer: Vitamins or minerals added to the food that wasn’t there.

Question: Natural

Answer: Food undergone a min or processing or preservatives.

Question: Staple

Answer: Food eaten routinely, dominant portion of diet, energy rich.

Question: Processed

Answer: Contains additives, artificial, chemical ingredients.

Question: Have we met the Healthy People objectives of 2010? If yes, what?

Answer: Some, we have lowered our cholesterol & reduced harm from some food borne infections. We need to work out and eat correct amount of servings.