Integrated Web Site to Accompany Discovering Nutrition, Second Edition

Title: Integrated Web Site to Accompany Discovering Nutrition, Second Edition

Practice Quizzes

Nutrition Science Animations

Interactive Summaries

Crossword Puzzles

Interactive Glossary

Health and Nutrition Directory

Nutrition Journals

Share Healthy Recipes

Nutrition Links

Eating Great in College

Chemistry Review

For Instructors

Feedback & Suggestions

Please read each question and select your answer from the choices provided. You must complete all of the questions in order to view your results. At the end of each exam, you have the option to e-mail your results to your instructor.

1: _____ is our main food security program.
	A: The Food Stamp Program
	B: NWT Program
	C: National School Lunch Program
	D: none of the above

2: Projections to the year suggest that there is little change in the absolute number of chronically undernourished people.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

3: NHANES III found that
	A: food insecurity is more uncommon in the working poor than the unemployed.
	B: food insecurity is as common among the working poor as the unemployed.
	C: food insecurity is more likely in the working poor than the unemployed.
	D: this survey did not measure food insecurity in the working poor

4: A survey that measures the prevalence and severity of food insecurity and hunger is
	A: WHO research.
	B: Food security supplement survey.
	C: The WIC survey.
	D: The CDC survey.

5: Which of a following is a new way to combat vitamin A deficiency?
	A: Scientists have developed new transgenic strains of rice that are rich in beta-carotene.
	B: Vitamin A has been added to salt.
	C: Promotion of breastfeeding.
	D: none of the above

6: Poverty, overpopulation, and migration to overcrowded cities are closely interrelated causes of hunger.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

7: Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) is by far the most lethal form of malnutrition.
	A: True
	B: False

8: Iodine deficiency can cause serious mental side effects in children, but causes few problems in adults.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

9: Malaria can contribute to anemia because it destroys red blood cells.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

10: Overdependence on irrigation to feed growing populations may create deserts leading to global climate changes.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

11: Vitamin A deficiency is most damaging to
	A: infants
	B: children
	C: pregnant women
	D: all of the above

12: This program provides funds for children's meals and snacks at nonprofit licensed child care centers.
	A: National School Lunch Program
	B: WIC
	C: Child and Adult Care Food Program
	D: The Food Stamp Program

13: Recipients of food stamp benefits can use this money to purchase household necessities such as toilet paper and cleaning supplies.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

14: ___ is the leading cause of preventable childhood blindness.
	A: Vitamin A deficiency
	B: Vitamin E deficiency
	C: Vitamin B deficiency
	D: none of the above

15: _____ causes severe malnutrition and famine
	A: war
	B: poverty
	C: population growth
	D: regional trends

16: ___ deficiency is the developing world''s most common cause of preventable brain damage
	A: iron
	B: Vitamin A
	C: iodine
	D: calcium

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