Lesson 7 - Chapters 9&10

Question 1

There are little differences between the diet of rural and urban families?

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Cancer and cardiovascular disease, both nutritionally related, are two of the biggest killers of the adult population?

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Sweets before bed, or as rewards, can create lifelong problems with our relationship with food?

Answer 3

True

Question 4

When we change our diets we need to pay close attention to what?

Answer 4

How the body handles new foods as digestive problems and allergies may occur

Question 5

Refined grains were melt to 10% of total calories in the paleo diet?

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Paleo diet facts:

Answer 6

High fibre intake

Hunter gatherer diet

Protein was high, between 19 and 35% of total calories and always included meat

Longevity similar to our, but with less chronic degenerative disease

Question 7

Which habits weaken the digestive system and make it easier to gain weight?

Answer 7

Overeating

Eating late at night

Eating too many different foods at the same time

Question 8

What is the most important food habit?

Answer 8

WHAT we eat

Question 9

Which principle is the best approach to daily meal patterns?

Answer 9

Eat the most before you do the most

Question 10

What food generates the most alkaline ash out of grains, nuts, milk, and lemons?

Answer 10

Lemons

Question 11

Food combining rules:

Answer 11

Fruits are best eaten alone

Meats require an acidic digestive medium and starches require an alkaline environment, so when eaten together it slows digestion and makes it less efficient

Proteins should not be mixed with starches

If eaten with other foods, fruits and simple sugars can ferment in the body allowing gas to go through the intestines

Question 12

To calculate the calories from carbs on a food label, multiple total grams of carbs by 4 calories ?

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Food labelling rules;

Answer 13

High potassium means 700mg or more per serving

Good source of fibre indicates 2.5 to 4.9 per serving

Question 14

Children should be encouraged to drink plenty of water and juice during the day?

Answer 14

False, not juice

Question 15

Which spice can be contaminated with salmonella and should be stored in the fridge?

Answer 15

Paprika

Question 16

What are some good recommendations to avoid the spread of infections through food?

Answer 16

Avoid over ripe produce

Don’t buy bulging cans

Use meats and poultry within 1 or 2 days

Question 17

About one/third of deaths by food poisoning can be directly traced to which three organisms?

Answer 17

Salmonella. Listeria. Toxoplasma

Question 18

Which foods generate alkaline ash in the body?

Answer 18

Most fruits and veggies

Question 19

What is something avoided in the macrobiotic diet?

Answer 19

Fruit juice

Question 20

Are veggies and legumes a complete protein?

Answer 20

No,

Nuts plus legumes or grains plus legumes

Question 21

What diet does not include animal flesh, but does include the by products of chickens and cows, such as eggs and milk products?

Answer 21

Lacto ovo vegetarian

Question 22

Which diet whether omnivores or vegetarian can provide all the nutrients we need?

Answer 22

Natural foods

Question 23

Which diet consists of small meals or snacks every 2 to 3 hours and focuses on the concept that food is our fuel?

Answer 23

Warrior

Question 24

Tooth decay, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes are all problems associated with which of the following diets?

Answer 24

Standard American diet

Industrialized diet

Question 25

Which cultural diet practices Ayurvedic approach to eating, which believes the forces that make a diet healthy or unhealthy are the same forces that govern the entire universe?

Answer 25

Indian

Question 26

When the industrial or refined foods diet was introduced to different tribal cultures throughout the world, a general degradation of their health followed within a single generation ?

Answer 26

True

Question 27

Extra salt and too few of the other minerals affects the body’s water balance, thereby affecting the kidneys, blood pressure, and eventually the entire cardiovascular system

Answer 27

True

Question 28

Should we drink water with meals?

Answer 28

No

Question 29

Acid alkaline balance refers to the body’s response to the food consumed, not the foods PH level in isolation ?

Answer 29

True

Question 30

The main concern regarding food contamination is contamination by handling?

Answer 30

False

Question 31

Once food is cooked, contamination is unlikely?

Answer 31

False

Question 32

The three aspects of the American diet that has received the most attention are?

Answer 32

Salt
Red meats
Fats

Question 33

Reducing totally fat intake is probably the most important step to creating a healthier diet?

Answer 33

True