NURS 204 Exam 3 | Questions & Answers (100 %Score) Latest Updated 2024/2025
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Nutrition - ✔️✔️study of food and how it affects the body and influences health
metabolism - ✔️✔️The process by which the body breaks down substances and gets energy from food
Macronutrients - ✔️✔️supplies the body with energy; carbohydrates, proteins, and fats
Micronutrients - ✔️✔️helps manufacture, repair, and maintain cells; vitamins and minerals
anabolism - ✔️✔️Constructive metabolism; the process of building up larger molecules from smaller ones.
(needs energy)
Catabolism - ✔️✔️Metabolic pathways that break down molecules, releasing energy.
Carbohydrates - ✔️✔️Broken down to glucose to provide energy.
simple carbohydrates - ✔️✔️"bad" carb (white bread, donuts, sweets)
complex carbohydrates - ✔️✔️"good" carb (grains, potatoes, and vegetables)
Protein - ✔️✔️macromolecule that contains carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen; needed by the body
for growth and repair
complete proteins - ✔️✔️Proteins containing all the essential amino acids; found only in soy and animal
foods (meats and dairy products)
incomplete proteins - ✔️✔️Proteins that are missing one or more of the essential amino acids; found in
plant sources such as nuts and legumes
,essential amino acids - ✔️✔️Amino acids that are needed, but cannot be made by the body; they must be
eaten in foods
nonessential amino acids - ✔️✔️amino acids that the body can synthesize
fats - ✔️✔️Nutrients that promote normal growth, give you energy, and keep your skin healthy.
Vitamins - ✔️✔️compounds that help regulate many vital body processes, including the digestion,
absorption, and metabolism of other nutrients
Fat soluble vitamins - ✔️✔️A, D, E, K
vitamin A - ✔️✔️Vitamin that helps aid healthy eye-sight, growth, bone development and healing
infections.
vitamin D - ✔️✔️Strong bones and teeth
Vitamin E - ✔️✔️Helps protect the skin from the harmful effects of the sun's UV light.
vitamin K - ✔️✔️helps with blood clotting and bone growth
water soluble vitamins - ✔️✔️B and C
minerals - ✔️✔️Elements found in food that are used by the body
overweight - ✔️✔️consuming calories in excess of what's needed
underweight - ✔️✔️insufficient intake intake of protein, fat vitamins and minerals
, Body Mass Index (BMI) - ✔️✔️A measure of body fat that is the ratio of the weight of the body in
kilograms to the square of its height in meters.
serum albumin - ✔️✔️indicator for malnutrition
important part of nutritional assessment
dysphagia diet - ✔️✔️- pureed food and thickened liquids
- also tucking the chin when swallowing helps propel food down the esophagus more easily
- position upright
-no straws
thickened liquids - ✔️✔️nectar, honey, pudding, nothing that can MELT!
clear liquid diet - ✔️✔️-Short-term
-requires minimal digestion
-leaves minimum residue
-provides simple carbs
-prevent dehydration
what can you drink with a clear diet? - ✔️✔️water, jello, black coffee, apple juice, tea, broth
full liquid diet - ✔️✔️transition after clears, low in cal/nutrients
what can you have with a full liquid diet? - ✔️✔️clears, soup, milk, pudding, hot cereal, yogurt, shakes
mechanical soft diet - ✔️✔️is recommended for people with difficulty in chewing or swallowing.
