Nutrition
and Health Worksheet
Use Ch. 1 of Contemporary
Nutrition, Ch. 2 of Visualizing
Nutrition, supplemental course materials, the University Library, the
Internet, or other resources to answer the following questions. Your response
to each question should be 75 to 100 words.
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1.
What is nutrition? Why is nutrition essential
to our daily lives?
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2.
What is the connection between nutrition and
health?
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3.
What are the six classes of nutrients? What
are essential nutrients? What are the sources of nutrients? What do nutrients
do?
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4.
How do vitamins and minerals work?
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5.
What does it mean to eat a balanced diet? Why
is food choice important for good nutrition?
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6.
What is undernutrition? What is overnutrition?
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7.
Why is physical activity important as it
relates to nutrition and health?
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8.
Where might you find dietary recommendations?
What are the recommended dietary allowances (RDA)? What are dietary reference
intakes (DRIs)?
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9.
The United States Department of Agriculture
created a diagram titled MyPlate. What is this diagram? Why should someone
study this diagram?
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10.
What are some tools for diet planning?
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11.
What is the calorie intake calculator? What
factors does this calculator take into account?
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12.
What are some dangers associated with dieting?
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13. What
is the best way to lose weight? Explain your answer and provide at least one
source, formatted consistent with APA guidelines, to support your answer.
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Reference
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14.
How does exercise influence body weight?
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15.
Consider your personal dietary habits. What
are some modifications you might make to promote good health?
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16. How
does today’s society affect our nutritional habits?
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Do not try and only use in-text citations to answer questions.
