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The highest average amount of a nutrient that can be consumed without a risk of adverse health effects to almost all individuals in a particular age and gender group is called the

A) Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Range (AMDR) .
B) Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) .
C) Adequate Intake (AI) .
D) Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) .

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The BRFSS surveys Americans about five behaviors known to increase the risk for chronic disease.What are these behaviors? Which do you engage in? What might you do to change the behavior(s)?

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Which of the following professional titles has NO definition or laws regulating it?

Vitamins provide 4 kilocalories per gram.

A slice of pumpkin bread contains 5 grams of fat,40 grams of carbohydrate,and 5 grams of protein.What percent of the bread's Calories are from fat?

Of the following nutrients,which contains nitrogen?

The term nutritionist has no precise definition or laws regulating it.

Two Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs)apply to energy intake.Identify these and distinguish between them.

The earliest discoveries in the field of nutrition focused on nutritional deficiencies and illness.

The energy-yielding macronutrients include carbohydrates,lipids,and proteins.

Dr.Sullivan is conducting a clinical trial to determine if vitamin Z can improve test performance of students in an introductory college nutrition course.Dr.Sullivan puts all the student names in a hat and draws names to determine if they will be placed in the control or the experimental group.The experimental group receives a capsule of vitamin Z and the control group a "sugar pill" that tastes and looks identical to the vitamin Z capsule.Neither Dr.Sullivan nor the participants knows who is receiving which treatment.This experiment is BEST described as

Proteins are NOT found in

Which of the following nutrients are inorganic?

Nutrigenomics is an ancient specialty area of nutritional research.

In the United States and Canada,what set of standards defines the recommended intake values for various nutrients for healthy people?

Macronutrients are nutrients that contain inorganic components.

You would like to compare the prevalence of morbid obesity among children in Italy to prevalence among children in the United States.What type of research would you conduct,and why?

Amino acids are units of

A beverage that contains 20 grams of alcohol mixed with a diet (0-Calorie)soda has approximately 140 kilocalories.

List the primary classes of nutrients.For each class of nutrients,note whether it is organic or inorganic and how many kilocalories per gram it provides,if any.