A 5-year-old, Mark, weighing 40 pounds, has been diagnosed with milk allergies. You are going to assist the mother with planning nutritional care for the child. You want to ensure that Mark receives appropriate amounts of all nutrients, vitamins, and minerals
Prepare a diet plan with alternate food sources to meet the recommended amounts of calcium for this age group. Include food choices that are appropriate for this age and that supply all recommended vitamins, minerals, and nutrients.
Students could include any diet plan with alternate food choices for calcium, such as sunflower seeds (an excellent choice for a young child), raisins, carrots, pinto beans, salmon, brown rice, ground beef, tofu, nuts. Plans will vary.
You might also like to view...
Plasma proteins help maintain vascular blood volume by:
a. active transport of fluid. b. absorbing sodium. c. stimulating production of antidiuretic hormone. d. colloidal osmotic pressure.
Which minerals play a role in providing antioxidant
protection/activity? Where possible, explain the mineral's antioxidant activities and list one other function of the mineral.
A pregnant teenager has one child, age 4, and is low income. Which of the following services might she be eligible for?
a. Title III Nutrition Services and WIC b. SNAP and Title III Nutrition Services c. Title I Nutrition Services and Head Start d. SNAP and WIC
In order to assess health risks of excess weight it is important to look at
A. waist measurement. B. waist measurement and BMI. C. BMI. D. body fat percentage.