Chapter 16 Nutrition

Well-nourished persons are usually better able to do which of the following than poorly nourished individuals?

• Avoid grand mal seizures

• Ward off infections

• Manage insulin resistance

• Prevent dental caries

_______ are the components of food that are needed by the body.

• Nutrition

• Antioxidants

• Nutrients

• The basic four food groups

If you have a patient with prolonged postoperative bleeding after an extraction, advise them to bite on a tea bag. What acid helps to clot blood?

• Tannic

• Citric

• Dicarboxylic

• Sulfuric

Which of the following is true of complex carbohydrates?

• Complex carbohydrates are primarily animal products in origin.

• Complex carbohydrates are also known as roughage.

• Complex carbohydrates are found mainly in grains, vegetables, and fruits

• Complex carbohydrates supply only “empty” calories that provide only calories and no other nutrition.

Any food that contains sugars or other carbohydrates that can be metabolized by bacteria in plaque is described as being:

• sweet.

• cariogenic.

• composed of empty calories.

• a complex carbohydrate.