Exam 12: Children and Adolescents: Nutrition Issues, Services, and Programs

Match the program in the right column with its purpose in the left column. Options will be used only once.​ -​Provide, at no cost, supplemental nutritious food, nutrition education, and referrals to health care to low-income pregnant women, infants, and children to age 5 who are at nutritional risk.

Which social influence is associated with improved diet quality in children?

The method of negotiating whose main precept is that a decision about an issue should be based on its merits, not on what each side says it will or will not do, is referred to as ____.

Which statement best describes, in general, the nutritional health status of U.S. children?

A serious commitment to which sport may especially predispose some female athletes to the development of eating disorders?

The widespread practice of dieting among adolescent girls places them at risk for under nutrition.

Low calcium intakes during the peak bone-building years increase the risk of ____ in later life, especially among females.

Match the program in the right column with its purpose in the left column. Options will be used only once.​ -​Assist states in initiating, maintaining, and expanding nonprofit food service programs for children and elderly or impaired adults in nonresidential day care facilities.

Match the program in the left column with the appropriate administering body in the right column. The same letter may be used more than once. -​Summer Food Service Program for Children

Match the program in the left column with the appropriate administering body in the right column. The same letter may be used more than once. -School Breakfast Program

What is an "open site" as defined in the Summer Food Service Program for Children?

The _____ mandate(s) the provision of comprehensive nutrition services to special needs children 3-5 years of age, using a community-based approach that focuses on the family.

Discuss why under nutrition is a problem for some adolescent females in the United States.

Childhood obesity is associated with ____.

Nearly half of family food expenditures are spent on food and beverages outside the home.

As measured by the Healthy Eating Index (HEI) for adolescents ages 2-17, the consumption of which dietary components were closest to the standards?

Match the program in the right column with its purpose in the left column. Options will be used only once.​ -​Improve the diets of low-income households by increasing their ability to purchase foods.

More than 50% of children and adolescents enrolled in school eat at least one of three meals at school.

Iron deficiency is common throughout the world, but not in the United States.

​List and explain four of the eight recommended steps for achieving the Healthy People 2020 objectives that promote healthful weights and food choices in children and adolescents.