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Nutrition Education
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Nutrition Education explores the principles and practices of promoting healthy eating behaviors through effective educational strategies. The course covers the science of nutrition, the impact of dietary habits on individual and community health, and methods for assessing nutritional status. Students learn to design, implement, and evaluate nutrition education programs tailored to diverse populations, emphasizing behavior change theories, communication techniques, and cultural competency. Real-world case studies and hands-on projects prepare students to advocate for improved nutrition in schools, healthcare settings, and public health initiatives.
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Community Nutrition in Action An Entrepreneurial Approach 6th Edition by Marie A. Boyle
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Chapter 1: Opportunities in Community Nutrition
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Q1) Which of the following is not one of the ten leading causes of death in the United States that are related to dietary imbalance and excess?
A) Coronary heart disease
B) Cancer
C) Stroke
D) Lower respiratory infections
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following statements is correct regarding the ecological footprint?
A) The ecological footprint is a measure of the resources needed to support a region's consumption of food, materials, and energy.
B) The ecological footprint is the same for every person.
C) Shopping at farmers' markets helps enlarge your region's ecological footprint.
D) All of the above statements are true.
Answer: A
Q3) What policies might Mary need to become familiar with as she starts her new job?
Answer: The policies of WIC;her county office's policies;WIC legislation;and reimbursement and qualifying guidelines are all examples.
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Chapter 2: Assessing Community Resources
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Q1) The condition of a population's or individual's health as influenced by the intake and utilization of nutrients and nonnutrients is called
A) health status.
B) community needs assessment.
C) nutritional status.
D) nutritional needs assessment.
Answer: C
Q2) The overall purpose of community analysis and diagnosis is to get a better understanding of how the community functions and how it addresses the public health and nutritional needs of its citizens.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The target population of a needs assessment always remains constant over the course of the assessment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Assessing the Target Populations ?Nutritional Status
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Q1) The proportion of subjects without the disease or condition who have a negative test is referred to as
A) specificity.
B) sensitivity.
C) reliability.
D) validity.
Answer: A
Q2) Focus group data is usually _____ in nature.
A) qualitative
B) quantitative
C) both qualitative and quantitative
D) neither qualitative nor quantitative
Answer: A
Q3) A group of individuals whose beliefs,biological characteristics,or other features represent a larger population is called a A) subset.
B) case.
C) sample.
D) survey.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Program Planning for Success
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of a Level III intervention?
A) Conducting a "heart smart" cooking program
B) Placing a higher tax on high-fat foods
C) Creating a website for issues related to women's health
D) Devising a media campaign to promote fruit and vegetable consumption
Q2) Within the nutrition care process and model,a referral made to WIC services would fall into which category of nutrition intervention?
A) Nutrition counseling
B) Food and/or nutrient delivery
C) Coordination of nutrition care
D) Nutrition education
Q3) What type of objective is the following: "To reduce the prevalence of skip breakfast syndrome by 10% within one year in 10,000 Hometown residents"?
A) Process
B) Outcome
C) Structure
D) Input
Q4) What are the four components of a well-written objective? Why is each component important?
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Chapter 5: Principles of Epidemiology
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Q1) Food balance sheets measure the food actually ingested by a population.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Can data derived from an ecological study accurately yield a conclusion that consumption (or lack thereof)of a specific nutrient can lead to the development of a given disease? Why or why not?
Q3) In a _____ study,a group of persons or cases with the disease or condition of interest is compared with a group of persons without the disease or condition.
A) case-control
B) cohort
C) correlational
D) cross-sectional
Q4) The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states and events in specified populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems is known as
A) morbidity.
B) ecology.
C) epidemiology.
D) vital statistics.
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Chapter 6: The Art and Science of Policy Making
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Q1) The purpose of policy termination is to determine whether a program is achieving its stated goals and reaching its intended audience.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has a PAC that has the legal authority to raise funds to support a given Presidential candidate.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the grassroots pyramid,there are more power players than fence sitters.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why has the federal budget process been described as "fractured,contentious,and chaotic"?
Q5) All states have state licensure laws for practicing dietitians. A)True B)False
Q6) Identify three methods that you would consider using when communicating with one of your elected officials.Why did you choose these?
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Chapter 7: A National Nutrition Agenda for the Publics
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Q1) Data collected for monitoring purposes are used for A) health planning.
B) program management and evaluation.
C) intervention efforts to prevent acute food shortages.
D) All of these
Q2) The United States utilizes a _____ approach with no single Federal Nutrition Office coordinating its nutrition policy efforts.
A) centralized
B) focused
C) decentralized
D) food assistance
Q3) The current food guidance system is called
A) the Basic Four Food Groups.
B) the Food Guide Pyramid.
C) MyPyramid.
D) MyPlate.
Q4) The Department of Health and Human Services compiles and disseminates data on the nutrient composition of foods.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Addressing the Obesity Epidemic: An Issue for Public Health Policy
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Q1) Discuss public health intervention strategies for the treatment of obesity and overweight among adults.
Q2) Reflecting back upon your years in high school,what are some areas in which health and wellness were not promoted?
Q3) Compared to people of normal weight,obese people spent approximately _____ more on health care costs in 2001.
A) 15%
B) 27%
C) 32%
D) 37%
Q4) Recent research indicates that breastfed babies are _____ likely to be overweight as compared with formula-fed babies.
A) more
B) less C) equally
Q5) Public health interventions target lifestyle approaches,such as dietary changes and physical activity.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Health Care Systems and Policy
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Q1) Older Americans consume a disproportionate amount of medical care.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Community nutritionists can argue for reimbursable nutrition services by highlighting the benefits,which include all of following except that nutrition services
A) are relatively inexpensive benefits.
B) have a preventive component.
C) benefits attract subscribers with chronic diseases.
D) are easily documented.
Q3) Which of the following is not true regarding nutrition protocols?
A) They are considered unnecessary for achieving payment for nutrition services.
B) They are detailed guidelines for care that are specific to the disease or condition and type of patient.
C) They serve as frameworks to help practitioners in assessment, development, and evaluation of nutrition interventions.
D) The clearly specify appropriate care and acceptable limits of care for each disease state or condition.
Q4) What might be some of the possible positive outcomes of this protocol?
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Chapter 10: Food Insecurity and the Food Assistance Programs
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true?
A) Having a garden does not appear to be related to food security for those living in rural areas.
B) The prevalence of food insecurity in rural households exceeds that in the inner city.
C) Nutrition and consumer education may be one of the keys to improving household food security status.
D) The availability of community transportation systems has no effect on food security.
Q2) Which program was designed to reduce the level of government-held surplus commodities while supplementing the diets of low-income needy persons,including elderly people,through provision of commodity foods to food banks?
A) Summer Food Service Program for Children
B) Commodity Supplemental Food Program
C) Emergency Food Assistance Program
D) WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program
Q3) The federal government is the only entity concerned with food insecurity.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Mothers and Infants: Nutrition
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Q1) What additional issues need to be addressed with a pregnant teenager?
Q2) Which of the following programs is funded by the USDA?
A) Title V Maternal and Child Health Program
B) WIC
C) EPSDT
D) The Healthy Start Program
Q3) Soy formulas are preferred by most doctors.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The leading cause of postneonatal mortality in the U.S.is
A) low birthweight.
B) SIDS.
C) very low birthweight.
D) neglect.
Q5) After the first trimester,a gain of about _____ pound(s)per week is normal and recommended.
A) 0.5
B) 1.0
C) 1.5
D) 2.0
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Chapter 12: Children and Adolescents: Nutrition
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Q1) Let's assume your community's School Breakfast Program is not meeting the needs of its participants or the target population.What steps would you take to correct the situation?
Q2) The primary feeding goal of a child with special needs is for the child to feed him-/herself.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is a clear risk factor for type 2 diabetes in children?
A) Younger than 10 years of age
B) Strong family history of hypoglycemia
C) Overweight
D) Asian ancestry
Q4) About 90% of people with eating disorders are
A) females.
B) males.
C) African Americans.
D) college-aged.
Q5) Discuss the progress made in reaching the Healthy People 2010 objectives for children.
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Chapter 13: Healthy Aging: Nutrition
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Q1) List three environmental and three socioeconomic factors that specifically influence the nutrition status of older adults.
Q2) Polypharmacy,which is the tendency to purchase drugs at more than 3 stores,is problematic for many older adults.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The functional assessment component of a nutrition status assessment of the elderly measures
A) liver function.
B) cardiac output.
C) activities of daily living.
D) risk of malnutrition.
Q4) Seniors interviewed in focus groups have shown no interest in changing their eating behaviors.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The life expectancy for women doesn't vary with race or ethnicity.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: World Hunger and Food Insecurity: Challenges and Opportunities
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Q1) Food insecurity is a problem stemming from poverty.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs is known as
A) appropriate development.
B) sustainable development.
C) labor-intensive development.
D) demographic transition.
Q3) Describe two types of nutrition interventions that receive the most emphasis in international nutrition programs and provide an example of each.
Q4) What are the three indicators of child malnutrition?
Q5) What are the Millennium Development Goals?
Q6) _____ is the most widespread form of malnutrition in the world today.
A) Kwashiorkor
B) Marasmus
C) Protein deficiency
D) Protein-energy malnutrition
Q7) Discuss the GOBI intervention.
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Chapter 15: Understanding and Achieving Behavior Change
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Q1) An intervention is a health promotion activity aimed at changing the behavior of a target population.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Define motivational interviewing.How is it a useful practice in community nutrition?
Q3) Motivational interviewing targets changes in attitudes and beliefs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The subjective norm is the perceived social pressure to perform or not perform a behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Within the cognitive-behavioral theory,the use of positive self-talk is an example of A) goal setting.
B) problem solving.
C) stimulus control.
D) cognitive restructuring.
Q6) What is reciprocal determinism?
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Chapter 16: Gaining Cultural Competence in Community Nutrition
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Q1) Members of which of the following religious groups never consume beef and frequently avoid pork?
A) Hindus
B) Jewish
C) Mormons
D) Muslim
Q2) Those in the cultural precompetence phase of the cultural competence continuum believe that everyone,regardless of culture,needs to be treated the same.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Differentiate between worldviews and values.Provide a personal example to illustrate the difference.
Q4) Including cultural foods in cooking classes for children is one way to support cultural growth.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Differentiate between visible and invisible diversity.
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Q6) Briefly describe two legislative,regulatory,and/or accreditation mandates related to lessening health disparities.
Chapter 17: Principles of Nutrition Education
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Q1) Based on the characteristics of an effective objective,what is wrong with this objective?
Upon completion of this course,students will be able to identify four foods rich in fiber and name five foods rich in calcium.
Q2) What are some recommendations for teaching adult learners?
Q3) Which of the following is an example of a well-stated objective?
A) Applies the knowledge of counting carbohydrates effectively.
B) Differentiates between low- and high-sodium foods.
C) Identifies the serving size on the food label.
D) All of these are well-stated objectives.
Q4) When determining which educational materials to use,the educator needs to be concerned with all of the following except
A) the cost of the materials.
B) their "fit" with the program.
C) the literacy level of the participants.
D) their reusability for several other programs with different target audiences.
Q5) What is adult education?
Q6) Briefly describe the guiding principles of a well-written instructional objective.
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Chapter 18: Marketing Nutrition and Health Promotion
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Q1) Sources of secondary data include all of the following except A) the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
B) an Internet survey.
C) the Census Bureau.
D) the National Center for Health Statistics.
Q2) You are a community nutritionist in private practice.Identify your target market and describe an appropriate marketing mix for your chosen audience.
Q3) Which of the following is the second step in developing a marketing plan?
A) Determine the needs and wants of the target population
B) Conduct a situational analysis
C) Specify the benefits of the services to the target population
D) Develop a marketing strategy
Q4) Marketing includes only selling and promotion.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Typically,the assessment of the marketing mix happens at the beginning of the fiscal year.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are the four most common promotional tools? How do they differ?
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Chapter 19: Managing Community Nutrition Programs
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Q1) The planning process includes the early step of
A) measuring input-output relationships.
B) establishing objectives from which plans emanate.
C) establishing line-staff models.
D) forecasting.
Q2) A balance sheet lists the organization's assets and liabilities.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All of the following are part of the organizing function of management except A) organization charts.
B) delegation.
C) critical paths.
D) job descriptions.
Q4) The span of control is the same for everyone.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Once the program is underway,planning is no longer a valued and needed management process.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20: Building Grantsmanship Skills
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Q1) List several questions that can help grant seekers decide whether to compete for a grant from a particular grant sponsor,and explain how these questions are relevant.
Q2) What might you search for in your literature review?
Q3) Grant proposal preparation begins with an idea.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What will be the unique feature of your grant?
Q5) All of the following are examples of federal funding agencies for grants except the A) National Cancer Institute.
B) American Cancer Society.
C) Food and Drug Administration.
D) United States Department of Agriculture.
Q6) Some grant sponsors require proposals to include a planning model like the Logic Model.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Dissemination offers many benefits to both the grant sponsor and grant recipient.Briefly describe one for each entity.
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