Nutrition And Health Flashcards
The condition of health of an individual in relation to his nutritional condition is termed
Nutritional status
science which studies how food is taken into the body and utilised for the production of energy, maintenance of body tissues and organs and maintenance of health is known as …..
Nutrition
Nutrition also deals with……
Taking the correct quantity and quality of food to satisfy the body’s requirements
What are vitamins
Vitamins are chemical compounds, organic in nature which are required in minute quantities for life and growth
Levulose or fruit sugar is another name for
Fructose
Simple sugars are made up
Of one sugar unit
Galactose is only obtained from the …
Hydrolysis of lactose
The form in which sugar is stored in the blood is
Glucose
Determinants of health include
Income, education, environment, lifestyle, nutritional status
Minerals are found kn
All body tissues and fluids
Minerals are notdestroyed by….. But
Cooking but lost when cooking fluids are discarded
The major source of carbohydrates are. ….
Plants
Hemicelluloses and cellulose are jointly called
Fibers
Hemicelluloses and cellulose are jointly called
Fibers
The chief animal source of carbohydrates is …
Milk
Galactose is only obtained from
The hydrolysis of lactose
The only source of lactose is…
Milk
Lactose increase the absorption of…. And. …
Calcium and phosphorus
Carbohydrates are needed for. ..
Complete oxidation
Lactose synthesise intestinal bacteria to break down
B-complex vitamins
When too little carbohydrates is present in the cell, if leases to accumulation of intermediate fatty acids called ….the condition is called…… in diabetics
Ketones, diabetic acidosis
The HIV strain that was first isolated in the University of Ibadan is .
CRF02-AG
Spontaneous flow of milk from the breast of a female unassociated with childbirth or lactation is
Galactorrhoea
Minerals in food occur as … And are….
Salts, soluble
,……. Percent of carbon is found in bone and teeth while…. Is found in the…
99, 1
,……. Percent of carbon is found in bone and teeth while…. Is found in the…
99, 1
Minerals consists about….. of body weight
4%
