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Exercise 1
Answer the question completely
1. What is meant by nutrition, according to Christian and Greger’s statement?
2. What are the differences between nutrition and nutrients?
3. Why do people need food and essential nutrients?
4. What kind of essential nutrients are from adequate food?
5. Do the functions of nutrients relate to the human body? Why?
6. Can you give an explanation about the ability of nutrients in regulating body processes?
7. What do you know about food that cannot provide all essential nutrients?
8. What is the caloric value?
Exercise 2
Choose the correct answer
1. The sum of the interactions between an organism and the food it consumes is called nutrition. This definition
is stated by ...
a. Guyton
b. Greger Christian
c. John Lock
d. Greger and Christian
2. The following are needed very much by the body, except ...
a. vitamin
b. nutrition
c. water
d. tea
5. An adequate food intake consists of a balance of essential nutrients. One of the food components below is
not an essential nutrient needed ...
a. mineral
b. carrot
c. water
d. fat
6. The following statements are the functions of a nutrient, except ...
a. avoiding the fatality
b. providing energy for body processes and movement
c. providing structural material for body tissues
d. regulating body processes
8. The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water 1 degree C is called ...
a. a large calorie
b. an essential nutrient
c. a small calorie
d. carbohydrate
9. A large calorie is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water 1 degree C ...
a. But not a unit used in the nutrition
b. And the unit used in the nutrition
c. When we need a vitamin
d. And the unit required in the nutrition
10. ... receives approximately 45 % of energy from carbohydrates, 40 % from fat, and 15 % from protein
a. North American
b. South American
c. Mongolian
d. Australian
Exercise 3
Choose true (T) if the statements are correct and false (F) if the statements are incorrect.
1. The growth and maintenance of all body tissues and the normal functioning of all body processes need
food and nutrition. ( T / F )
2. There are three major functions of Nutrients. ( T / F )
3. Water, carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins, and minerals are significant contributors to the growth of
the body. ( T / F )
4. A unit of heat energy is called nutrition. ( T / F )
5. According to Guyton, The average North American receives approximately forty five % of energy from
carbohydrates, forty % from fat, and fifteen % from protein. ( T / F )