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Define the term 'balanced diet' and explain its significance.
A balanced diet is one that contains the right proportions of all the necessary nutrients required for healthy growth and development. It is significant in maintaining overall health and well-being.
What are the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) and how are they determined?
RDAs are the levels of intake of essential nutrients considered to be adequate to meet the known nutritional needs of practically all healthy persons. They are determined based on scientific evidence and research on nutrient requirements.
Why do nutrient needs peak in adolescence according to the text?
Nutrient needs peak in adolescence due to the dramatic growth spurt driven by hormonal activity that affects every organ of the body.
Explain the significance of classifying foods into appropriate groups.
Classifying foods into appropriate groups helps in understanding the nutritional value of different foods and aids in planning balanced diets. It also guides individuals in making healthier food choices.
What factors influence adolescent food habits according to the text?
Adolescent food habits are influenced by factors such as peer pressure, advertising, cultural influences, and personal preferences.
Identify the causes, symptoms, and nutritional interventions related to eating disorders.
Causes of eating disorders include psychological, genetic, and environmental factors. Symptoms may include extreme weight loss or gain, obsession with food, and distorted body image. Nutritional interventions may involve counseling, meal planning, and addressing underlying nutritional deficiencies.
What is the science of foods, nutrients, and their actions within the body called?
Nutrition
What is the definition of food?
Anything solid or liquid that, when swallowed, digested, and assimilated, provides essential nutrients to the body.
What are the constituents in food that must be supplied to the body in suitable amounts called?
Nutrients
What is a balanced diet?
A diet that includes a variety of foods in adequate amounts and correct proportions to meet the day's requirements of all essential nutrients.
What does a balanced diet help to promote and preserve?
Good health
What is the formula for Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs)?
Requirements + Margin of safety
What is the distinction between macronutrients and micronutrients based on?
The required quantity to be consumed everyday
What are the physiological dimensions of nutrition?
Ingestion, digestion, absorption, metabolism, excretion
What are the social, psychological, and economic dimensions of nutrition in addition to the physiological dimensions?
Social, psychological, economic aspects
What does nutrition depend on?
Food intake
What is the term used to define the science of foods, nutrients, and their actions within the body?
Nutrition
What is the term for a diet that includes different food groups in appropriate amounts to provide the necessary nutrients for maintaining health?
Balanced diet
What are the nutrients that must be supplied to the body in suitable amounts called?
Macronutrients
What is the term used to describe the activity of hormones that affect every organ of the body and cause a dramatic growth spurt during adolescence?
Growth spurt
What is the significance of healthy eating during adolescence according to the text?
It is proven by the saying 'You are what you eat'
What is the term used to describe the basis for defining the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) and the difference between Dietary Requirement and RDA?
Nutritional intervention
What is the science of foods, nutrients, and their actions within the body called?
Nutrition
What is a balanced diet?
A diet that includes a variety of foods in adequate amounts and correct proportions
What are the constituents in food that must be supplied to the body in suitable amounts called?
Nutrients
What does a balanced diet help to promote and preserve?
Good health
What factors influence adolescent food habits according to the text?
Social, psychological, and economic dimensions
What are the social, psychological, and economic dimensions of nutrition in addition to the physiological dimensions?
All of the above
What are the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) and how are they determined?
They are determined based on requirements and margin of safety
Why do nutrient needs peak in adolescence according to the text?
Due to increased physical activity and growth spurts
Identify the causes, symptoms, and nutritional interventions related to eating disorders.
Genetic factors, dietary restrictions, psychological stress
What is the formula for Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs)?
$RDAs = Requirements + Margin$
This quiz covers learning objectives related to defining food, nutrition, nutrients, health, fitness, balanced diet, Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs), and dietary requirements in the context of human ecology and family sciences.
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