Exam 2: Designing a Healthy Diet

You are looking at the ingredient list for a box of cereal. The first five ingredients are, in order: whole grain oat flour, sugar, corn flour, whole wheat flour, and rice flour. What can you conclude about the sugar content of this product?

If a company wanted to make a disease related health claim regarding calcium and vitamin D and osteoporosis, which of the following nutrients would they have to add to the nutrition label?

Which of the following Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide groups should be consumed in the lowest proportion?

Foods in the milk and alternatives group are clustered together because they are good sources of which mineral?

The four characteristics of a healthful diet are adequacy, balance, moderation, and:

Compare and contrast the 1992 Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating with the 2007 Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide.

Walking home from school one day your friend comments on the large number of fast-food restaurants that you pass. Would this observation surprise you? Why or why not?

When choosing foods from the grain products category, Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide recommends choosing at least half of your grain products as whole grains to ensure an adequate intake of:

Janna is a varsity level basketball player. Normally she eats a healthy diet but she struggles to maintain her healthy diet when the team is travelling and she is forced to eat at fast-food restaurants. The team decides to stop for lunch at a fast-food restaurant on their drive back home. Provide Janna with some strategies and examples to help her ensure her meal choice is healthy?

Compare and contrast The Mediterranean Diet with Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide.

Which of the following would require a Nutrition Facts table?

A granola bar contains 2 gram of fibre and 6 grams of fat per 48 gram serving size. The company wished to make claim that their granola bar is high in fibre and low in fat. Would this be allowed?

Summer is an 18-year-old female. Today she ate 1.5 cups of cooked oatmeal for breakfast, a sandwich with two slices of bread for lunch, and she is planning on having chicken with rice for dinner. She has not had any other grain products today. How much rice should she eat in order to meet her Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide recommended number of servings from the grain products group?

Assuming each has the same number of kilocalories, which has the greatest nutrient density?

Which statement best describes nutrient density?

Which of the following would be the healthiest way to prepare a potato?

You have been asked to do a nutrition presentation on the Nutrition Facts table to a high school class. How would you explain the format of a Nutrition Facts table to this class? What tips would you give the class to be able to quickly determine if a food would be a healthy choice?

By December ________ all business were required to comply with the new Canadian food and Drug Regulations.

Explain why the daily value of a nutrient is often more useful to the general public than the absolute amounts of the nutrient.

________ refers to eating the right proportion of foods.