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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






2. What type of people need extra protein?






3. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






4. What foods have high quality protein?






5. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






6. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






7. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






8. How many calories/gram is protein?






9. What are healthy sources of fats?






10. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






11. Name six sources of grains






12. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






13. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






14. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






15. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






16. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






17. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






18. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






19. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






20. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






21. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






22. What function is vitamin A?






23. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






24. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






25. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






26. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






27. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






28. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






29. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






30. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






31. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






32. What is RDA of protein?






33. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






34. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






35. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






36. What is normal albumin levels?






37. What does DASH stand for?






38. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






39. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






40. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






41. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






42. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






43. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






44. What is normal BMI?






45. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






46. The higher the BMR a client has --






47. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






48. What is the function of vitamin C?






49. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






50. How much grains are to be eaten per day?