AY Honor Nutrition - Advanced Requirements used by General Conference

Nutrition - Advanced

Skill Level

3

Year

1986

Version

18.12.2024

Approval authority

North American Division

1. Have the Nutrition Honor.

2. Read a book about Nutrition.

3. Do the following:

a. Keep a food diary on yourself for one week.

b. Calculate the total nutrients for each day of the following: calories, protein, iron, calcium, Vitamin A, Thiamine, Riboflavin, Niacin and Vitamin C or Ascorbic Acid.

4. How does this compare with the Recommended Dietary Daily Allowance chart?

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

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

7. What are the symptoms of vitamin B₁₂ deficiency?

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

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

10. Why is it advisable to use less sugar in our diet? Suggest several ways in which this may be accomplished.

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