DHO Chapter 11 Nutrition

Water soluble vitamins are destroyed easily by cooking and are not normally stored in the body.

• True

• False

Hypertension can be caused or made worse by excess salt(sodium) in the diet.

• True

• False

Omega 3 fatty acids are found in fish oil.

• True

• False

Vitamin D and calcium breakdown teeth and bones.

• True

• False

Therapeutic diets are modifications of normal diets.

• True

• False

This is a unit of measurement of fuel value of food

• High Blood Pressure

• Calorie

• State of poor nutrition caused by diet or illness

• Low Blood Pressure

Fatty substance found in body cells and animal fats

• Phytochemical

• Cholesterol

• Calorie

• Vitamin C

Found in spinach, kale, cabbage and broccoli and is essential for normal blood clotting.

• Vitamin D

• Vitamin E

• Vitamin K

• Vitamin B12

Found in meats and is important in helping hemoglobin carry oxygen.

• Iron

• Potassium

• Zinc

• Calcium

Essential nutrients made up of amino acids are

• Vitamins

• Fats

• Proteins

• Carbohydrates