AY Honors/Nutrition - Advanced/Answer Key

Nutrition, Advanced

Skill Level 3

1. Have the Nutrition Honor.

Answers to the AY Honor Nutrition Answer Key used by General Conference Honor can be found in the Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Household Arts/Household Arts chapter of this book.

6. Explain why a high fiber diet is important, and tell how this can be obtained.

http://www.gicare.com/pated/edtgs01.htm

7. Name three diseases due to malnutrition, and describe the symptoms of each.

http://www.purehealthsystems.com/malnutrition.html

8. What are the symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency?

http://www.veganhealth.org/b12/sympt

9. What advice would you give a person who decided to be a total vegetarian?

http://www.dietobio.com/dossiers/en/vegetarism/index.html

http://www.giveusahome.co.uk/articles/vegetarianism.htm

http://philipngcc.homestead.com/

10. What is the difference between saturated and unsaturated fats? Which is the most healthful, and why?

http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/heart.htm

11. Why is it advisable to use less sugar in the diet? List several ways in which this may be accomplished.

http://www.rheumatic.org/sugar.htm

http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=15980

12. What are amino acids? How many are needed to make all the proteins in the body? What is meant by essential amino acids? How many of them are essential? Where can you get all the essential amino acids?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-28,GGLG:en&q=definition+amino+acids

http://dl.clackamas.cc.or.us/ch106-08/protein.htm

http://www.dietitian.com/protein.html

Google results:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2005-28%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=amino+acids+needs+to+make+proteins

Definition of Essential Amino acids: the nine a-amino acids required for protein synthesis that cannot be synthesized by humans and must be obtained in the diet: histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine. Note: http://www.google.com enter definition essential amino acids to get this and other related definitions!

13. Know the difference between water and fat soluble vitamins. What are two common vitamins that are fat soluble? What are two vitamins that are water soluble?

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=10736

14. Using the book Counsels on Diet and Foods by Ellen G. White, write a paragraph on the benefits of a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet.

Use the "search the writings" feature on http://www.egwestate.org