IB D.1 Human Nutrition

What defines an essential nutrient?

• Essential nutrients cannot be synthesized by the body

• Essential nutrients include some Vitamins

• Essential nutrients can only be found in fat soluble tissues

• Essential nutrients are difficult to obtain

Dietary minerals are...

• surplus to requirements

• essential for preventing scurvy

• organic materials

• essential chemical elements.

Vitamins A,E,D,K are all...

• Neither fat nor water soluble

• Fat and Water soluble

• Fat soluble

• Water soluble

Identify this compound

• Chlorophyll

• Sucrose

• Vitamin C

• Fructose

Some mammals can synthesize their own ascorbic acid

• True

• False

Malnutrition may be caused by...

• deficiency, imbalance or excess of minerals in the diet.

• deficiency, imbalance or excess of nutrients in the diet.

• deficiency or excess of nutrients in the diet.

• deficiency or imbalance of nutrients in the diet.

Which statement is true?

• Some fatty acids and some acids are essential.

• Some vitamins and some noble gases are essential.

• Some fatty acids and some proteins are essential.

• Some fatty acids and some amino acids are essential.

Appetite is controlled by a centre in which part of the brain?

• the hypothalamus

• the cerebellum

• the medulla oblongata

• the hippocampus

Overweight individuals are more likely to suffer

• hypotension and type I diabetes

• hypotension and type II diabetes

• hypertension and type II diabetes

• hypertension and type I diabetes

What compound in the blood can as an indicator of the risk of coronary heart disease.

• Water

• Cholesterol

• Na+

• Jam