Chapter 1 is designed to allow you to:
- 1. Define the terms nutrition, carbohydrate, protein, lipid (fat), alcohol, vitamin, mineral, water, kilocalorie (kcal), and dietary fiber.
- 2. Use the caloric values of energy-yielding nutrients to determine the total calories (kcal) in a food or diet.
- 3. Outline the basic units of the metric system used in nutrition and calculate a percentage value, such as percent of calories from fat in a diet.
- 4. List the major characteristics of the North American diet and the food habits that often need improvement.
- 5. Describe how various factors affect our food habits: body physiological processes, meal size and composition, early experiences, ethnic customs, health concerns, advertising, social class, and economics.
- 6. List various attributes of a healthful lifestyle that are also consistent with Healthy People 2010 goals.
- 7. Identify diet and lifestyle factors that contribute to the 10 leading causes of death in North America.
- 8. Understand the basis of the scientific method as it is used in developing hypotheses and theories in the field of nutrition.
- 9. Identify reliable sources of nutrition information.