3.1

Question 1

How do you make sure your body gets the right amount of all seven nutrients it needs?

Answer 1

You have to eat a variety of foods in a balanced diet

Question 2

What is a nutritionist

Answer 2

A person who advises people on what food to eat and in which amounts to have a balanced diet

Question 3

What is the schijf van vijf?

Answer 3

A chart to help the people in the Netherlands choose foods that contain all nutrients needed to stay healthy

Question 4

When do you belong to a food group

Answer 4

When you contain the same types of nutrients

Question 5

What is the Eatwell guide?

Answer 5

It helps you get a balance of healthier and more sustainable food. It shows how much you eat should overall come from each food group

Question 6

What message do all foot guides share?

Answer 6

To drink enough water or low fat sugar free drinks
Eat at least five portions vegetables or fruits
Limit your sugar, salt and fat intake

Question 7

The amount of food you should eat to stay healthy depends on your?

Answer 7

Your age, gender, body size and activity level

Question 8

What are the indicators for bmi

Answer 8

Many muscles weight a lot, which means your heavier and a high bmi, but that doesn’t mean your overweight and depending on your life stage

Question 9

What is body mass index

Answer 9

Looking at someone’s ideal weight by combining their weight and height

Question 10

What is a formula to calculate your bmi

Answer 10

Your weight in kg divided by your height in metres squared

Question 11

When are you obese and underweight etc

Answer 11

With a bmi lower that 18,5 underweight
18,5-25 is healthy
25-31 is overweight
31> obese

Question 12

Your body processes food in four different stages, what is the first one

Answer 12

Ingestion, is getting the food inside your mouth

Question 13

What is the second stage of processing food

Answer 13

Digestion, it’s for carbohydrates, fats and proteins they must be broken down into very small particles before they can enter your bloodstream and reach your cells

Question 14

What is absorption

Answer 14

It’s the process of getting small food particles into your blood stream

Question 15

Why do vitamins, minerals and water do not need to be digested?

Answer 15

They already consist of very small particles that can quickly pass into your bloodstream and reach your cells

Question 16

What is mechanical digestion?

Answer 16

When your cheek and tongue move the food between your teeth and chew it into smaller parts/splitting up the nutrients in smaller groups

Question 17

What is chemical digestion

Answer 17

The second step of digestion, the smal food parts are changed into even smaller food parts

Question 18

What makes you help swallow food and what is it’s function

Answer 18

It’s saliva, it contains enzymes

Question 19

What is an enzyme?

Answer 19

A protein that speeds up the chemical breakdown of carbohydrates, proteins and fats in your mouth and intestines

Question 20

What is Amylase

Answer 20

It’s an enzyme produced by salivary glands near your mouth, they help break down large chains of starch

Question 21

What are protease enzymes?

Answer 21

Enzymes in your stomach that break down large proteins into amino acids

Question 22

What does the enzyme lipase?

Answer 22

It breaks down fats into fatty acids and glycerol in the intestines

Question 23

What are the final products of digestion?

Answer 23

Glucose, amino acids, fatty acids, glycerol, water, vitamins and minerals

Question 24

What can enzymes do because of their shape

Answer 24

They can bind to a specific nutrient that needs to be broken down and create new substances that go their separate ways

Question 25

At which optimum temperature are our enzymes function the best? And what is that

Answer 25

It’s the temperature at which an enzyme is the most active, it’s 37,5 degrees

Question 26

What it the best ph level for a enzyme and what is that

Answer 26

It’s the ph at which an enzyme is most active, it’s 7 ph