1. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans identifies ten main guidelines for healthy eating and living.
Answer True False
2. In order to optimize recovery after strenuous activity or daylong sporting events, it is best to eat foods rich in carbohydrates.
Answer True False
3. Many restaurants serve portions that are bigger than the recommended serving size.
Answer True False
4. It is important to read the Nutrition Facts panel on food packaging before eating the food.
Answer True False
5. Good nutrition comes from an eating plan that has consistency, excess, and lots of fruits and vegetables.
Answer True False
6. People who skip breakfast tend to overeat later in the day.
Answer True False
7. Eliminating snacking throughout the day is one way to improve your health.
Answer True False
8. If you are eating to compete, you should consume simple carbohydrates for quick energy right before the contest.
Answer True False
9. A medium apple is an example of the size of one serving of fruit.
Answer True False
10. According to the MyPyramid food guidelines, the largest percentage of foods consumed in a day should be grains and vegetables.
Answer True False
11. Which of the following is NOT found on a Nutrition Facts panel?
A. number of calories you need to consume each day
B. Percent Daily Values for vitamins and minerals found in the food
C. milligrams of fat and sodium found in the food
D. calories from fat per serving of the food

12. Before and after handling raw meat, poultry, or fish, you should
A. wash your hands.
B. wash the cutting board that was used.
C. wash countertops that were used.
D. wash your hands, the cutting board, and the countertops that were used.

13. A meal consumed before a long sports competition should include
A. a soft drink.
B. a candy bar.
C. pasta.
D. yogurt.

14. One of the three phases of restoration is
A. eating a snack.
B. gently exercising to protect your muscles.
C. taking a nap.
D. taking a vitamin supplement.

15. The ten guidelines in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans are categorized into how many groups?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5

16. A meal that is high in complex carbohydrates is recommended for a
A. pre-event meal
B. post-event meal
C. restoration meal
D. recovery meal

17. A dietary supplement that can promote muscle growth, but increase the risk of heart disease is called
A. ephedrine
B. creatine
C. androstenedione
D. testosterone

18. Safe food-handling guidelines include all of the following EXCEPT
A. Clean
B. Separate
C. Close
D. Chill

19. Match the following 1. pre-event meal
2. creatine

1 2 A. A supplement that increases muscle size while enhancing the body’s ability to use protein
1 2 B. The last full meal consumed prior to a practice session or a competitive event

20. In order to burn 230 calories while bicycling, you will have to ride for 44 minutes.
Answer True False
21. In order to burn 230 calories while lifting weights, you will have to lift for 15 minutes.
Answer True False
22. If you play Frisbee® for 30 minutes, you will burn 106 calories.
Answer True False
23. A medium-sized apple has 80 calories.
Answer True False
24. Fifty small pretzel sticks have 120 calories.
Answer True False

Food one: Poultry and poultry by products; maize gluten; wheat; animal fat (from beef and chicken); salt; vegetable oil; vegetable meal and fibre; potassium chloride, inulin; natural preservative; sodium tripolyphosphate; taurine; choline chloride; vitamin E; vitamin C; lucerne extract; marigold meal; tomato powder; zinc sulphate; sodium caseinate; vitamin A; niacin; antioxidants; copper sulphate; ferrous sulphate; colostrum; vitamin B1; vitamin B12; vitamin B2; vitamin B6; folic acid;

Food 2:

Dehydrated poultry meat, rice, animal fats, maize gluten,
maize, animal proteins L.I.P.*, hydrolysed animal proteins,
vegetable fibres, beet pulp, soya oil, minerals, L-lysine,
egg powder, yeast, fish oil, fructo-oligo-saccharides (FOS),
hydrolysed yeast extract (rich in mannan-oligo-saccharides),
sodium phosphate, taurine, DL-methionine,
marigold extract (rich in lutein).
Please don’t recommend Iams they do unethical animal testing therefore I won’t buy their food.

It seems there is a link between the rise of working women and the rise in childhood obesity. Women who have careers are too tired to cook and therefore order out, bring home take out, microwave junk food, or take the kids to fast food. Ofcourse, that is if they are lucky she does anything for them at all. They might have to fend for themselves for dinner and ofcourse if they do they are going to eat foods rich in fat, sugar, and sodium.

You know… they say that having a diet rich in fruits can make your *** and area taste better, and diets high in junky food can make it smell and taste foul.

Do you think women today have too much sodium in their diet that affects their "pH" balance?

Just wondering….

so far from what i have found, green tea is good for you as well as fiber rich foods and raw fruits and veggies and consuming less then 1500 (don’t know the word sorry) of sodium, and not starving yourself. any good ideas? what has worked for you or others? any good websites? exercises? (i walk a lot but what else is there?) help me if you can…

Seagulls, like most birds, drink salt water and eat sodium rich food. So why aren’t seagulls permanently pickled like sauerkraut?

I know sodium rich food can cause water retention but are there other causes of water retention?
If you have water retention what is the best solution?

If chicken rendang is not rich in sodium, what food is rich in sodium? Please state a food that rich in sodium (Malay Food)