1) What term is given to the condition of a female athlete who has an eating disorder
and develops amenorrhea and osteoporosis?
a.Female athlete triad
b.Triathlete medical disorder
c.High stress tertiary disorder
d.Nonadaptable training syndrome
e.Athletic hormonal disruption
2) You have been asked to help a top nutrition researcher conduct human experiments
on vitamin C. As the subjects walk into the laboratory, you distribute all the vitamin C
pill bottles to the girls and all the placebo pill bottles to the boys. The researcher
instantly informs you that there are two errors in your research practice. What steps
should you have taken to conduct your experiment correctly?
a.Giving all the boys the vitamin C and the girls the placebo, and telling them what they
were getting
b.Distributing the bottles randomly, randomizing the subjects, and telling them what
they were getting
c.Telling the subjects which group they were in, but preventing yourself from knowing
the contents of the pill bottles
d.Preventing yourself from knowing what is in the pill bottles, and distributing the
bottles randomly to the subjects
e.Allowing the subjects to decide whether they take Vitamin C or the placebo, and then
giving them the opposite of what they requested
3) Hyponatremia refers to low blood concentration of
a. renin.
b. sodium.
c. chloride.
d. aldosterone.
e. potassium.
4) The immune system treats foreign substances such as bacteria and toxins as
a. antigens.
b. antibodies.
c. antitoxins.
d. immunoglobulins.
e. symbionts.
5) Which of the following is an effect of alcohol intake in the mother who breastfeeds?
a. It alters the flavor of the breast milk.
b. It stimulates lactation.
c. It passes into the breast milk and stimulates the infant€s acceptance.
d. It first appears in the breast milk approximately 12 hours after ingestion.
e. It has no clinically significant impact.
6) The famine Somalia is currently experiencing has left an estimated ____ people
starving.
a. 6 million
b. 8 million
c. 10 million
d. 12 million
e. 14 million
7) Which of the following would be the best choice for physically active people who
need to replace lost fluids?
a. Cool water
b. “Sweat” replacers
c. Salt tablets and tap water
d. Water warmed to body temperature
e. Very cold water
8) What is prehypertension?
a. A predictor of stroke risk
b. Slightly high blood pressure
c. A precursor for Syndrome X
d. A component of the metabolic syndrome
e. A cluster of risk factors that predict the likelihood of hypertension
9) The process by which bile acts on fat so that enzymes can attack the fat is known as
____.
a. condensation
b. emulsification
c. enzymification
d. phosphorylation
e. inhibition
10) Which of the following is a characteristic of iron transport?
a. Albumin is the major iron transport protein in the blood
b. Transferrin in the blood carries iron to the bone marrow
c. Hemochromatosis results from an inability to absorb and transport iron
d. Ferritin functions by transporting iron from the spleen to the bone marrow
e. Chelation is used to increase the bioavailability of iron.
11) What two systems coordinate all digestive/absorptive processes?
a. Enzyme and thoracic
b. Portal and lymphatic
c. Nervous and endocrine
d. Transport and circulatory
e. Circulatory and nervous
12) Which of the following is true of the relationship between poverty and hunger?
a. Hunger and obesity may exist in the same household.
b. The highest rates of obesity occur among the wealthiest.
c. The provision of food to the poor increases obesity.
d. Even people below the poverty line have enough money for food.
13) Which of the following results from reverse peristalsis?
a. Gas
b. Choking
c. Vomiting
d. Diarrhea
e. Constipation
14) Which of the following is a research finding on vitamin D nutrition in the elderly?
a. Self-synthesis capacity is high.
b. The skin’s capacity to synthesize the vitamin is reduced.
c. The presence of atrophic gastritis reduces bioavailability of the vitamin.
d. Symptoms of deficiency include dermatitis and diminished taste acuity.
e. Deficiency is rarely a problem.
15) What amino acid is classified as conditionally essential when dietary intake of
phenylalanine is insufficient or the body cannot normally metabolize phenylalanine?
a. Cysteine
b. Tyrosine
c. Glutamine
d. Isoleucine
e. Asparagine
16) Which of the following is a characteristic of the response to stress?
a. Men often follow a pattern of “tend-and-befriend”
b. Women usually engage in the “fight-or-flight” response
c. Older men and women tend to lose their ability to adapt to stress
d. Common psychological stressors in older people include alcohol abuse and smoking
e. The physiologic responses triggered by stress decrease the likelihood of physical
responses to the stressors
17) The recommended gain for a woman who begins pregnancy at a healthy weight and
is carrying a single fetus is ____________________ to ____________________
pounds.
18) Of the world’s 7 billion people, ____________________ percent have no land and
no possessions at all.
19) In what ways have vitamin C supplements been shown to affect nasal congestion
from a cold?
20) Explain the roles of protein and fat as nutrients for gluconeogenesis. What are the
circumstances that favor low and high rates of gluconeogenesis?
21) Discuss through the use of examples the importance of folate in development of the
neural tube during the early weeks of pregnancy.
22) Provide examples and discuss the importance of the five subgroups of the
vegetables food group.
23) A clot that breaks free from an artery wall and travels through the circulatory
system until it lodges in a small artery and suddenly shuts off blood flow to the tissues
is called a(n) ____________________.
24) Explain the differences between groundwater and surface water as sources of
drinking water.