NUTRI-QUIZ QUESTIONS

1. It makes up most of your blood and help carry oxygen and food to the cells in your body. It helps your
body get rid of wastes through urine and sweat.

Answer:

2. What food nutrient is our bodys main source of energy?

Answer:

3. They are very important for building strong bones.

Answer:

4. It is a degenerative brain disorder that causes a gradual and irreversible decline in memory and
eventually, the ability to care for oneself.

Answer:

5. It is a dietary-deficiency disease resulting from inadequate intake of niacin.

Answer:

6. An irregularity in the rhythm of the heartbeat is referred to as what?

Answer:

7. It is a water-soluble vitamin found in fruits and leafy vegetables and is also called as ascorbic acid.

Answer:

8. A prolonged deficiency of Vitamin C in the diet causes what disease?

Answer:

9. What is the theme for this years Nutrition Month Celebration?

Answer:

10. What is the protein food found in milk?

Answer:

11. What is the cheapest source of Vitamin D?

Answer:
12. What is the scientific name of guava?

Answer:

13. The package of simple ready-to-cook foods designed as a supplement to the usual diet of the child is
called what?

Answer:

14. What severe form of child malnutrition is caused by inadequate intake of protein?

Answer:

15. It refers to the food that a person usually consumes.

Answer:

16. This vitamin is extracted from liver which is essential for red blood cell formation.

Answer:

17. It is a relapse or recurrence of an illness or disease.

Answer:

18. It is the scientific regulation of diet in treating disease.

Answer:

19. Any substance that nourishes a person to enable him to live and grow.

Answer:

20. It is a condition characterized by sleepiness, indifference, and lack of energy.

Answer:

21. ____________ is a metabolism of fat.

Answer:

22. _____________ is caused by lack of calories or inadequate amount of food.

Answer:

23. It is a type of cancer of the blood characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood
cells called blasts.
Answer:

24. The slowness of heart rate is referred to as what?

Answer:
25. The first secretion from the mothers breast is rich in antibodies and minerals. This is produced after
giving birth and before the production of true milk. It provides newborns with immunity to infections.

Answer:

26. These are the building blocks of protein which is an integral part of all body tissues especially muscle.

Answer:

27. It is the enlargement of the thyroid gland appearing as a swelling of the front of the neck.

Answer:

28. It helps prevent goiter.

Answer:

29. This refers to the ease with which nutrients, particularly minerals, can be absorbed from the digestive
tract and utilized by the body.

Answer:

30. ___________ is a term to describe minerals that are attached to other molecules such as proteins or
carbohydrates and used to improve the bio-availability of minerals.

Answer:

31. These are the building blocks of fats and oils.

Answer:

32. It refers to the study of measurement of the physical characteristics of the body such as height and
weight.

Answer:

33. It is the pressure of the blood on the walls of the arteries.

Answer:

34. _________ is the rate of energy used for metabolism when the body is at complete rest.

Answer:

35. It is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating, sometimes followed by vomiting or purging.

Answer:

36. What is the natural stimulant found in coffee, tea, and chocolate?

Answer:
37. It is the unit of heat and the measurement of energy.

Answer:

38. ___________ is a monosaccharide, sometimes known as blood sugar.

Answer:

39. It is the main carbohydrate in milk.

Answer:

40. These refers to the substances obtained from food and used in the body to provide energy and
structural materials and to regulate growth, maintenance and repair of the bodys tissue.

Answer:

41. __________ is a chronic disease characterized by excessively high body fat in relation to lean body
tissue.

Answer:

42. It is an excess of body weight that includes fat, bone, and muscle.

Answer:

43. What is the general term for the people who exclude meat, poultry, fish, or other animal-derived foods
from their diets?

Answer:

44. These are organic, essential nutrients required only in small amounts.

Answer:

45. ________ is a guideline for the amount of energy and selected nutrients considered adequate to meet
the nutrient needs of practically all healthy people.

Answer:

46. It is the breaking down of foodstuffs in the body into a form that can be absorbed and used or excreted.

Answer:

47. It is the state of being healthy and fit, gaining all nutrients.

Answer:

48. It is a lack of adequate fluids in the body.

Answer:
49. It is a deficiency in blood where iron level intake is too low.

Answer:

50. These are foods that are supplemented with essential nutrients in quantities greater than already
present.

Answer:

51. How do you call a healthcare professional with training in nutrition and diet planning?

Answer:

52. _______ is the science that deals with foods and their effects on health.

Answer:

53. ________ is a drug or remedy used for treating illness.

Answer:

54. It is a lack of healthy foods in the diet, or an excessive intake of unhealthy foods, leading to physical
harm.

Answer:

55. What is the best way to determine the nutritional status of an individual?

Answer:

56. What substance are nails made of?

Answer:

57. Dairy products are generally made from what common liquid?

Answer:

58. He is a Polish-American chemist considered as the Father of Vitamin Therapy and was the first to
coin the term vitamin as vital factors in the diet.

Answer:

59. It is the only sugar manufactured my mammals.

Answer:

60. Axerophthol is the same as what vitamin?

Answer:
61. It is a malignant growth of cells.

Answer:

62. Cardiopathy is known to be as what sort of disease?

Answer:

63. It is a disease caused by a deficiency of Vitamin D.

Answer:

64. What vitamin is a viosterol?

Answer
65. What nutrient is needed as the main structural component of the body?

Answer:

66. What vitamin helps in blood clotting and is known as naphthoquinone?

Answer:

67. What vitamin is needed for a healthy immune system and strong connective tissue?

Answer:

68. It is also known as tocopherol and is necessary for normal reproduction.

Answer:

69. What is the cheapest source of iodine in our household?

Answer:

70. What fruit is an alligator pear?

Answer:

71. Who was the Philippine President who declared July as a month of nutrition?

Answer:

72. This is often marketed as superfruits being rich in vitamins A and C.

Answer:

73. It is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Health responsible for creating a
conducive policy environment for national and local nutrition planning, implementation, monitoring and
evaluation, and surveillance using state-of the art technology and approaches.

Answer:
74. It is a medical condition in which the eye fails to produce tears caused by a deficiency in vitamin A.

Answer

75. He is referred to as the Father of Medicine.

Answer:

76. _______ is a thiamine-deficiency disease.

Answer:

77. What Presidential Decree, known as the Nutrition Act of the Philippines which created the National
Nutrition Council (NNC) as the highest policy-making on nutrition, was promulgated on 1974?

Answer:

78. What Executive Order, which named the Department of Health as the chair of the NNC?

Answer:

79. What is the process of removing harmful pathogens from various types of food.

Answer:

80. It protects the child from measles and is given only once as early as nine months.

Answer:

81. It protects the unborn child from the tetanus and is given to the mother twice.

Answer:

82. It is the current vaccine for tuberculosis.

Answer:

83. What is the substance found in colostrum that fights against infection and creates antibodies that
stimulates immunity?

Answer:

84. ________ is a hidden hunger.

Answer:

85. It is also called Night Blindness and is a poor vision in relatively low light.

Answer:
86. Malunggay have different parts. One of these is the fruit/seed. For what is the use of this fruit/seed?

a. Arthritis c. Wounds

b. Stomach Ache d. Leukemia

Answer:

87. _________ is slowness in eating.

Answer:

88. A person who stores too much sugar in the body may suffer from ___________.

Answer:

89. Who discovered the vitamin D and the role of the vitamin in preventing rickets?

Answer:

90. What is the medical term for the inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and
spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges?

Answer:

91. ____________ is a great toe displacement toward other toes.

Answer:

92. This disease happens when the flow of oxygen-rich blood to a section of heart muscle suddenly
becomes blocked and the heart cant get oxygen.

Answer:

93. It is a part of the vitamin B complex, which is vital for red blood cells, and thus used in the treatment of
pernicious and macrocytic anemia and gastrointestinal disorders.

Answer:

94. _________ means hernia of the stomach.

Answer:
95. _________ is any illness resulting from the consumption of contaminated food or foods which contain
poisonous substances.

Answer:

96. What is the stable food of Filipinos that is served every meal?

Answer:

97. When protein reaches the intestines for it to be digested, in what unit is it broken?

Answer
98. It is a statement or information on food labels indicating the nutrient(s) and the quantity of said
nutrient found or added in the processed foods or food products.

Answer:

99. ________ is the addition of nutrients to processed foods or food products at levels above the natural
state.

Answer:

100. This is a strategy to encourage food manufacturers to fortify processed foods or food products with
essential nutrients at levels approved by the Department of Health (DOH).

Answer:

101. It is the process of introducing vaccine into the body to stimulate the formation of antibodies which
fight germs that cause diseases.

Answer:

102. What do you call the medical condition in which a persons spine is curved from side to side?

Answer:

103. What is the act establishing the Philippine Food Fortification Program?

Answer:

104. This results from a disproportion among essential nutrients with or without the absolute deficiency of
any nutrients.

Answer:

105. What is the other name for vetsin, which we usually used in cooking that give flavor to the foods we
eat?

Answer:

106. ________ is a substance formed by protein in the blood that is used by the immune system to
identify and neutralize foreign objects such as bacteria and viruses.

Answer:

107. It is the removal of mineral or calcium ions from the bone or other calcified tissue to make them
flexible and easy for pathological investigation.

Answer:

108. These are smaller amounts of vitamins or minerals consumed.

Answer:
109. What hormone is produced in the pancreas that regulates the metabolism of glucose? [The lack of
this hormone causes diabetes.]

Answer:

110. __________ are portions and types of foods and beverages consumed on a regular basis.

Answer:

111. It is a standardized ratio of weight to height.

Answer:

112. In what part of the body does digestion begin?

Answer:

113. What group of foods builds and repairs worn-out tissues?

Answer:

114. In what year was it discovered that citrus fruit juices aided in the treatment of scurvy, now known as
vitamin C deficiency disease?

Answer:

115. What basic food group provides the body with heat and energy?

Answer:

116. It is a deficiency of calcium in elderly.

Answer:

117. What is the poor mans meat?

Answer:

118. What vitamin do we get from yellow foods?

Answer

119. What mineral makes our teeth harder?

Answer:

120. What are the water-soluble vitamins?

Answer:
121. What vitamin helps in preventing hemorrhage and known as bandage vitamin?

Answer:

122. What do you call the thrombocytes that are tiny colorless disk-shaped and plays an important part in
the clotting process?

Answer

123. What do you call the cholesterol that comes from food?

Answer:

124. What do you call the cholesterol that circulates in your blood?

Answer:

125. What is the bodys most essential nutrient?

Answer:

126. What are the fat-soluble vitamins?

Answer:

127. It must accompany smart eating for weight control.

Answer:

128. _______ is a guideline for helping people choose a varied, balanced, and moderate diet.

Answer:

129. It is a fatlike substance found only in animal sources of food.

Answer

130. What is the governmental agency responsible for food labels?

Answer:

131. These are the substances added for a specific effect.

Answer:

132. ___________ is an excess body fat.

Answer:

133. How many calories are there in a pound?

Answer:
134. It is an eating disorder characterized by an irrational fear of becoming obese.

Answer:

135. It refers to the eating of large amounts of starches on days leading up to athletic competition.

Answer:

136. It is when the bodys immune system overreacts to food substances.

Answer:

137. ___________ is using a medicine in a way that is not intended.

Answer:

138. It is the ability to be physically active.

Answer:

139. Of the existing 22 amino acids, how many are considered to be essential in the diet?

Answer:

140. What are the complex carbohydrates?

Answer:

141. What mineral helps build red blood cells?

Answer:

142. It is a fat-soluble vitamin that enhances the absorption of calcium and therefore aids in the formation
and maintenance of bones and teeth.

Answer:

143. What are the simple carbohydrates?

Answer:

144. What is the primary role of carbohydrates in the body?

Answer:

145. ____________ is the sole source of energy used by the brain.

Answer:

146. It is a B vitamin that is a factor in energy metabolism and supports normal vision and skin health.

Answer:
147. ___________ is an excessively rapid heartbeat.

Answer:

148. It is a bad breath.

Answer:

149. ____________ is a condition in which a person can no longer control his or her need or desire for a
drug.

Answer:

150. It is any chemical or agent that causes cancer.

Answer:
NUTRI-QUIZ QUESTIONS
1. It makes up most of your blood and help carry oxygen and food to the cells in your body. It helps your
body get rid of wastes through urine and sweat.

Answer: Water

2. What food nutrient is our bodys main source of energy?

Answer: Carbohydrates

3. They are very important for building strong bones.

Answer: Calcium

4. It is a degenerative brain disorder that causes a gradual and irreversible decline in memory and
eventually, the ability to care for oneself.

Answer: Alzheimers disease

5. It is a dietary-deficiency disease resulting from inadequate intake of niacin.

Answer: Pellagra

6. An irregularity in the rhythm of the heartbeat is referred to as what?

Answer: Arrhythmia

7. It is a water-soluble vitamin found in fruits and leafy vegetables and is also called as ascorbic acid.

Answer: Vitamin C

8. A prolonged deficiency of Vitamin C in the diet causes what disease?

Answer: Scurvy

9. What is the theme for this years Nutrition Month Celebration?

Answer: Gutom at Malnutrisyon, Sama-sama nating Wakasan

10. What is the protein food found in milk?

Answer: Casein

11. What is the cheapest source of Vitamin D?

Answer: Sunlight/Morning Sunshine

12. What is the scientific name of guava?

Answer: Psidium guajava

13. The package of simple ready-to-cook foods designed as a supplement to the usual diet of the child is
called what?

Answer: Nutri-Pak

14. What severe form of child malnutrition is caused by inadequate intake of protein?

Answer: Kwashiorkor

15. It refers to the food that a person usually consumes.

Answer: Diet

16. This vitamin is extracted from liver which is essential for red blood cell formation.

Answer: Vitamin B12/Cyanocobalamin

17. It is a relapse or recurrence of an illness or disease.

Answer: Palindromia

18. It is the scientific regulation of diet in treating disease.

Answer: Dietotherapy

19. Any substance that nourishes a person to enable him to live and grow.

Answer: Food

20. It is a condition characterized by sleepiness, indifference, and lack of energy.

Answer: Lethargy

21. ____________ is a metabolism of fat.

Answer: Lipometabolism

22. _____________ is caused by lack of calories or inadequate amount of food.

Answer: Marasmus

23. It is a type of cancer of the blood characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood
cells called blasts.
Answer: Leukemia or Leukaemia

24. The slowness of heart rate is referred to as what?

Answer: Bradycardia

25. The first secretion from the mothers breast is rich in antibodies and minerals. This is produced after
giving birth and before the production of true milk. It provides newborns with immunity to infections.

Answer: Colostrum
26. These are the building blocks of protein which is an integral part of all body tissues especially muscle.

Answer: Amino Acids

27. It is the enlargement of the thyroid gland appearing as a swelling of the front of the neck.

Answer: Goiter

28. It helps prevent goiter.

Answer: Iodine

29. This refers to the ease with which nutrients, particularly minerals, can be absorbed from the digestive
tract and utilized by the body.

Answer: Bio-availability/Bioavailability

30. ___________ is a term to describe minerals that are attached to other molecules such as proteins or
carbohydrates and used to improve the bio-availability of minerals.

Answer: Chelates

31. These are the building blocks of fats and oils.

Answer: Fatty Acids

32. It refers to the study of measurement of the physical characteristics of the body such as height and
weight.

Answer: Anthropometry

33. It is the pressure of the blood on the walls of the arteries.

Answer: Blood Pressure

34. _________ is the rate of energy used for metabolism when the body is at complete rest.

Answer: Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)

35. It is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating, sometimes followed by vomiting or purging.

Answer: Bulimia

36. What is the natural stimulant found in coffee, tea, and chocolate?

Answer: Caffeine

37. It is the unit of heat and the measurement of energy.

Answer: Calorie
38. ___________ is a monosaccharide, sometimes known as blood sugar.

Answer: Glucose

39. It is the main carbohydrate in milk.

Answer: Lactose

40. These refers to the substances obtained from food and used in the body to provide energy and
structural materials and to regulate growth, maintenance and repair of the bodys tissue.

Answer: Nutrients

41. __________ is a chronic disease characterized by excessively high body fat in relation to lean body
tissue.

Answer: Obesity

42. It is an excess of body weight that includes fat, bone, and muscle.

Answer: Overweight

43. What is the general term for the people who exclude meat, poultry, fish, or other animal-derived foods
from their diets?

Answer: Vegetarians

44. These are organic, essential nutrients required only in small amounts.

Answer: Vitamins

45. ________ is a guideline for the amount of energy and selected nutrients considered adequate to meet
the nutrient needs of practically all healthy people.

Answer: Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA)

46. It is the breaking down of foodstuffs in the body into a form that can be absorbed and used or excreted.

Answer: Digestion

47. It is the state of being healthy and fit, gaining all nutrients.

Answer: Wellness

48. It is a lack of adequate fluids in the body.

Answer: Dehydration

49. It is a deficiency in blood where iron level intake is too low.

Answer: Anemia or Anaemia

50. These are foods that are supplemented with essential nutrients in quantities greater than already
present.

Answer: Fortified Foods

51. How do you call a healthcare professional with training in nutrition and diet planning?

Answer: Dietician/Dietitian

52. _______ is the science that deals with foods and their effects on health.

Answer: Nutrition

53. ________ is a drug or remedy used for treating illness.

Answer: Medicine

54. It is a lack of healthy foods in the diet, or an excessive intake of unhealthy foods, leading to physical
harm.

Answer: Malnutrition

55. What is the best way to determine the nutritional status of an individual?

Answer: Weighing

56. What substance are nails made of?

Answer: Keratin

57. Dairy products are generally made from what common liquid?

Answer: Milk

58. He is a Polish-American chemist considered as the Father of Vitamin Therapy and was the first to
coin the term vitamin as vital factors in the diet.

Answer: Casimir Funk

59. It is the only sugar manufactured my mammals.

Answer: Lactose

60. Axerophthol is the same as what vitamin?

Answer: Vitamin A

61. It is a malignant growth of cells.

Answer: Cancer
62. Cardiopathy is known to be as what sort of disease?

Answer: Heart Disease

63. It is a disease caused by a deficiency of Vitamin D.

Answer: Rickets

64. What vitamin is a viosterol?

Answer: Vitamin D2
65. What nutrient is needed as the main structural component of the body?

Answer: Protein

66. What vitamin helps in blood clotting and is known as naphthoquinone?

Answer: Vitamin K

67. What vitamin is needed for a healthy immune system and strong connective tissue?

Answer: Vitamin C/Ascorbic Acid

68. It is also known as tocopherol and is necessary for normal reproduction.

Answer: Vitamin E

69. What is the cheapest source of iodine in our household?

Answer: Iodized salt

70. What fruit is an alligator pear?

Answer: Avocado

71. Who was the Philippine President who declared July as a month of nutrition?

Answer: Ferdinand Marcos

72. This is often marketed as superfruits being rich in vitamins A and C.

Answer: Guava

73. It is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Health responsible for creating a
conducive policy environment for national and local nutrition planning, implementation, monitoring and
evaluation, and surveillance using state-of the art technology and approaches.
Answer: National Nutrition Council (NNC)

74. It is a medical condition in which the eye fails to produce tears caused by a deficiency in vitamin A.

Answer: Xerophthalmia

75. He is referred to as the Father of Medicine.

Answer: Hippocrates

76. _______ is a thiamine-deficiency disease.

Answer: Beriberi

77. What Presidential Decree, known as the Nutrition Act of the Philippines which created the National
Nutrition Council (NNC) as the highest policy-making on nutrition, was promulgated on 1974?

Answer: P.D. 491

78. What Executive Order, which named the Department of Health as the chair of the NNC?

Answer: Executive Order No. 472

79. What is the process of removing harmful pathogens from various types of food.

Answer: Pasteurization/Pasteurisation

80. It protects the child from measles and is given only once as early as nine months.

Answer: Measles Vaccine

81. It protects the unborn child from the tetanus and is given to the mother twice.

Answer: Tetanus Toxoid

82. It is the current vaccine for tuberculosis.

Answer: Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG)

83. What is the substance found in colostrum that fights against infection and creates antibodies that
stimulates immunity?

Answer: Immunoglobulin

84. ________ is a hidden hunger.

Answer: Malnutrition

85. It is also called Night Blindness and is a poor vision in relatively low light.

Answer: Nyctalopia

86. Malunggay have different parts. One of these is the fruit/seed. For what is the use of this fruit/seed?

a. Arthritis c. Wounds

b. Stomach Ache d. Leukemia

Answer: a. Arthritis
87. _________ is slowness in eating.

Answer: Bradyphagia

88. A person who stores too much sugar in the body may suffer from ___________.

Answer: Diabetes

89. Who discovered the vitamin D and the role of the vitamin in preventing rickets?

Answer: Edward Mellanby

90. What is the medical term for the inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and
spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges?

Answer: Meningitis

91. ____________ is a great toe displacement toward other toes.

Answer: Hallux varus

92. This disease happens when the flow of oxygen-rich blood to a section of heart muscle suddenly
becomes blocked and the heart cant get oxygen.

Answer: Heart Attack

93. It is a part of the vitamin B complex, which is vital for red blood cells, and thus used in the treatment of
pernicious and macrocytic anemia and gastrointestinal disorders.

Answer: Folic Acid / Folacin / Folate / vitamin M / vitamin B 9 / vitamin Bc

94. _________ means hernia of the stomach.

Answer: Gastrocele
95. _________ is any illness resulting from the consumption of contaminated food or foods which contain
poisonous substances.

Answer: Foodborne Illness / Foodborne Disease / Food Poisoning

96. What is the stable food of Filipinos that is served every meal?

Answer: Rice

97. When protein reaches the intestines for it to be digested, in what unit is it broken?

Answer: Amino Acid

98. It is a statement or information on food labels indicating the nutrient(s) and the quantity of said
nutrient found or added in the processed foods or food products.

Answer: Nutrition Facts

99. ________ is the addition of nutrients to processed foods or food products at levels above the natural
state.

Answer: Fortification / Food Fortification

100. This is a strategy to encourage food manufacturers to fortify processed foods or food products with
essential nutrients at levels approved by the Department of Health (DOH).

Answer: Sangkap Pinoy Seal Program

101. It is the process of introducing vaccine into the body to stimulate the formation of antibodies which
fight germs that cause diseases.

Answer: Immunization

102. What do you call the medical condition in which a persons spine is curved from side to side?

Answer: Scoliosis

103. What is the act establishing the Philippine Food Fortification Program?

Answer: R.A. 8976

104. This results from a disproportion among essential nutrients with or without the absolute deficiency of
any nutrients.

Answer: Imbalance

105. What is the other name for vetsin, which we usually used in cooking that give flavor to the foods we
eat?

Answer: Monosodium glutamate / Sodium glutamate

106. ________ is a substance formed by protein in the blood that is used by the immune system to
identify and neutralize foreign objects such as bacteria and viruses.

Answer: Antibody

107. It is the removal of mineral or calcium ions from the bone or other calcified tissue to make them
flexible and easy for pathological investigation.

Answer: Decalcification

108. These are smaller amounts of vitamins or minerals consumed.

Answer: Micronutrients

109. What hormone is produced in the pancreas that regulates the metabolism of glucose? [The lack of
this hormone causes diabetes.]

Answer: Insulin
110. __________ are portions and types of foods and beverages consumed on a regular basis.

Answer: Diet

111. It is a standardized ratio of weight to height.

Answer: Body Mass Index (BMI)

112. In what part of the body does digestion begin?

Answer: Mouth

113. What group of foods builds and repairs worn-out tissues?

Answer: Grow Foods

114. In what year was it discovered that citrus fruit juices aided in the treatment of scurvy, now known as
vitamin C deficiency disease?

Answer: 1720

115. What basic food group provides the body with heat and energy?

Answer: Energy-Giving Foods (Go Foods)

116. It is a deficiency of calcium in elderly.

Answer: Osteoporosis

117. What is the poor mans meat?

Answer: Monggo (English Terms: Mung Bean / Moong Bean / Lentil / Legume / Mung Pea)

118. What vitamin do we get from yellow foods?

Answer: Vitamin A

119. What mineral makes our teeth harder?

Answer: Calcium, Iron, Phosphorus

120. What are the water-soluble vitamins?

Answer: Vitamin C and Vitamins B complex

121. What vitamin helps in preventing hemorrhage and known as bandage vitamin?

Answer: Vitamin K

122. What do you call the thrombocytes that are tiny colorless disk-shaped and plays an important part in
the clotting process?

Answer: Platelets
123. What do you call the cholesterol that comes from food?

Answer: Dietary Cholesterol

124. What do you call the cholesterol that circulates in your blood?

Answer: Serum Cholesterol/Blood Cholesterol

125. What is the bodys most essential nutrient?

Answer: Water

126. What are the fat-soluble vitamins?

Answer: Vitamins A, D, E, and K

127. It must accompany smart eating for weight control.

Answer: Regular Exercise

128. _______ is a guideline for helping people choose a varied, balanced, and moderate diet.

Answer: Daily Food Guide

129. It is a fatlike substance found only in animal sources of food.

Answer: Cholesterol

130. What is the governmental agency responsible for food labels?

Answer: Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

131. These are the substances added for a specific effect.

Answer: Additives

132. ___________ is an excess body fat.

Answer: Obesity

133. How many calories are there in a pound?

Answer: 3,500 calories

134. It is an eating disorder characterized by an irrational fear of becoming obese.

Answer: Anorexia nervosa

135. It refers to the eating of large amounts of starches on days leading up to athletic competition.

Answer: Carbohydrate Loading

136. It is when the bodys immune system overreacts to food substances.

Answer: Food Allergy

137. ___________ is using a medicine in a way that is not intended.

Answer: Medicine misuse

138. It is the ability to be physically active.

Answer: Physical Fitness

139. Of the existing 22 amino acids, how many are considered to be essential in the diet?

Answer: 9 amino acids

140. What are the complex carbohydrates?

Answer: Starches

141. What mineral helps build red blood cells?

Answer: Iron

142. It is a fat-soluble vitamin that enhances the absorption of calcium and therefore aids in the formation
and maintenance of bones and teeth.

Answer: Vitamin D

143. What are the simple carbohydrates?

Answer: Sugars

144. What is the primary role of carbohydrates in the body?

Answer: To provide energy

145. ____________ is the sole source of energy used by the brain.

Answer: Glucose

146. It is a B vitamin that is a factor in energy metabolism and supports normal vision and skin health.

Answer: Vitamin B2 or Riboflavin

147. ___________ is an excessively rapid heartbeat.

Answer: Tachycardia

148. It is a bad breath.

Answer: Halitosis
149. ____________ is a condition in which a person can no longer control his or her need or desire for a
drug.

Answer: Drug Addiction

150. It is any chemical or agent that causes cancer.

Answer: Carcinogen