Chapter 1: The Importance of Nutrition

Question 1

What is Nutrition?

Answer 1

The study of how different nutrients found in ingested substances function to sustain the body.

Question 2

Good Nutrition results in?

Answer 2

Longer life spans because a well-nourished individual is less susceptible to infection and disease.

Question 3

Poor Nutrition is associated with major health risks that can cause?

Answer 3

Chronic illness and even death.

Question 4

Heart diseases, diabetes, stroke, hypertension, and some types of cancer are often a result of?

Answer 4

Unhealthy eating habits and weight gain.

Question 5

The internal systems of the body are in a constant state of fluctuation as they adjust in?

Answer 5

Response to environmental factors.

Question 6

Homeostasis is an important process as it means the ability to?

Answer 6

Maintain a reasonably stable internal condition regardless of the outside environment.

Question 7

To maintain Homeostasis the cells need to?

Answer 7

Be supplied with nutrients.