Exam 2: Nutrition Toolsstandards and Guidelines

The Nutrition Facts panel on a food label lists the following information for amounts per serving: 111 calories; 23 calories from fat. What percentage of the calories are provided by fat?

If you were teaching someone with diabetes how to plan a diet to control carbohydrate intakes, which of the following tools would you use?

Your sister has evaluated her usual diet by comparing it to the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and has found that her intakes of fruits, vegetables, and dairy foods are lower than recommended. How would you interpret her results?

A woman who has begun a new exercise program to keep herself healthy will need to consider that her discretionary calorie allowance:

Which of the following is a property of manufactured functional foods?

One of the major disadvantages of the USDA Food Patterns is that they cannot be adapted to other national and cultural cuisines.

An important role of the exchange system of categorizing foods is to:

Which of the following includes the recommended daily amounts of food from each group for a sedentary woman of 32 who requires 1,800 kcal/day, based on the USDA Food Patterns?

When you see that foods have a high nutrient density, you should:

The bottom portion of the Nutrition Facts panel on a food package:

What changes to the average American diet are necessary for the population to meet the Dietary Guidelines?

Food group plans primarily dictate:

Which of the following statements is not true about the DRI?

Which of the following is the best and safest source of phytochemicals?

Recent research on the health benefits of flavonoids found in dark chocolate has shown all of the following except:

Name and briefly describe the three types of claims that may appear on food labels. How reliable is each of these types of claims?

The DRI Committee recommended a diet that provides _____% of its calories from carbohydrate.

Tea and certain spices are not included in the USDA Food Patterns. This means that you should consider which of the following when deciding whether to include them in your diet?

Exchange systems help primarily with:

Concerned about the toxic effects of added nutrients in fortified foods and supplements, when eaten in addition to staple foods, scientists established the _____ category of the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI).