Medical nutriton therapy

Question 1

Which type of diabetes required insulin and dietary restrictions?

Answer 1

Type 1

Question 2

What type of diabetes requires exercise and diet therapy initially?

Answer 2

Type 2

Question 3

What type of diet requires carbohydrate consistency and monitoring?

Answer 3

Type 2 diabetes
Consistent blood glucose level counted by carbohydrates

Question 4

What type of diet requires saturated fat to be less than 7%?

Answer 4

Type 2 diabetes

Question 5

What disease required cholesterol intake of less than 200 mg/dL?

Answer 5

Type 2 diabetes

Question 6

What disease requires protein to be 15 - 30% of diet?

Answer 6

Type 2 diabetes

Question 7

What disease requires a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and complex carbohydrates?

Answer 7

Cardiovasuclar disease

Question 8

What disease encourages patients to eat fish twice a week?

Answer 8

Cardiovascular disease

Question 9

What disease encourages patients to limit trans-saturated fat to less than 1%?

Answer 9

Cardiovascular disease

Question 10

What happens to normal cells when a patient has cancer?

Answer 10

Malignant cells compete with normal cells for nutrients

Question 11

What is the risk associated with malnutrition and cancer?

Answer 11

Increase in morbidity and mortality

Question 12

What does radiation cause?

Answer 12

Anorexia
Stomatitis
Severe diarrhea
Intestinal strictures
Pain

Question 13

What diet requires calorically dense foods to combat malnutrition?

Answer 13

Cancer

Question 14

What causes hypermetabolism in patients with HIV/ AIDS?

Answer 14

Cytokine elevation

Question 15

What disease requires a diet that maximizes kilocalories and nutrients?

Answer 15

HIV/ AIDS

Question 16

What disease requires a diet that encourages small, frequent, nutrient dense meals with fluid in between?

Answer 16

HIV/ AIDS

Question 17

What diet is used for GI upset?

Answer 17

BRAT
Bananas
Rice
Applesauce
Toast

Question 18

What diet is used for clients with heart disease, hypertension, and fluid over load such as with congestive heart failure?

Answer 18

Sodium restricted/ Low sodium

Question 19

How much sodium can be digested on a sodium restricted or low sodium diet?

Answer 19

2 grams per day

Question 20

What should patients on DASH or NAS be instructed to avoid?

Answer 20

Canned or processed foods

Question 21

What diet emphasizes protion size, food variety, and getting the right amount of nutrients?

Answer 21

DASH diet

Question 22

What diet encourages sodium restriction and increasing nutrients that help lower BP such as potassium, calcium, and magnesium?

Answer 22

DASH

Question 23

What is the sodium allowance on the standard DASH diet?

Answer 23

2,300 mg or LESS per day

Question 24

What is the sodium allowance for the lower DASH diet?

Answer 24

1,500 mg or less per day

Question 25

What diet is used for patients with kidney disease to minimize further insult to the kidneys?

Answer 25

Renal diet

Question 26

What diet restricts protein and sodium based on the level of renal failure?

Answer 26

Renal diet

Question 27

What other minerals are limited in the renal diet?

Answer 27

Potassium, magnesium, and phosphorus

Question 28

What is encouraged in the renal diet?

Answer 28

Carbs

Question 29

What diet is used to improve glycemic control?

Answer 29

ADA diet

Question 30

What amount of calories could a patient following the ADA diet digest?

Answer 30

1,800 - 2,000 k/cal no added sugar

Question 31

What diet is more liberal than ADA, but does not allow concentrated sweets?

Answer 31

NCS

Question 32

What diet is implemented to decrease the workload on the gut and may be used prior to GI testing?

Answer 32

Clear liquid

Question 33

What diet does not allow for tomato juice or orange juice and cannot be used for longer than 24 hours?

Answer 33

Clear liquid diet

Question 34

What diet allows patients to have anything that would be clear at RT without cream or dairy added?

Answer 34

Clear liquid

Question 35

What diet uses popsicles, chicken broth, jellow, tea, black coffee and juice?

Answer 35

Clear liquid

Question 36

What diet is used as a step up from the clear liquid diet?

Answer 36

Full liquid

Question 37

What diet allows any liquid including opaque liquids?

Answer 37

Full liquid

Question 38

A nurse caring for patient with lactose intolerance is advancing from the clear liquid diet. Why should the nurse use caution?

Answer 38

The full liquid diet includes foods with cream and milk. Fat and lactase can be problematic immediately post-op.

Question 39

What diet is used most often with patients who have difficulty swallowing or suffer from edentulous?

Answer 39

Pureed

Question 40

What diet contains whole foods that are low in fiber and easily digested?

Answer 40

Soft

Question 41

What diet contains smooth, creamy, or crisp textures, but no raw veggies or course breads and cereals?

Answer 41

Soft

Question 42

What is the risk for a soft diet?

Answer 42

Constipation

Question 43

What diet is used to transition from full to regular foods, acute infections, chewing difficulty, or GI disorders?

Answer 43

Soft

Question 44

Which diet would be used for a patient that requires minimal chewing?

Answer 44

Mechanical soft

Question 45

What diet uses butter, gravy, and sugar for increased calories?

Answer 45

Mechanical soft

Question 46

Which diet excludes nuts, seeds, raw fruit or veggies

Answer 46

Mechanical soft

Question 47

Which diet is used for clients with limited chewing, swallowing, or have had head or neck surgery?

Answer 47

Mechanical soft

Question 48

Which level of dysphagia uses pureed-pudding like texture?

Answer 48

Level 1

Question 49

Which level of dysphagia uses mechanically altered-soft, moist, semi-solid, easy to chew foods?

Answer 49

Level 2

Question 50

Which level of dysphagia uses near normal, but moist- no hard or sticky foods?

Answer 50

Level 3