Overweight in adults is defined as a BMI ____

a. less than 24
b. between 25 and 29.9
c. greater than 30
d. between 25 and 35


b

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How do the healthful benefits of one factor of nutrition, health, or safety affect the outcomes in the others?

a. Nutrition, health, and safety are closely aligned and interrelated. b. Physical health has a greater affect on social, emotional, and physical development. c. Nutrition affects health more than safety. d. They are separate factors with unique consequences.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that all governments prohibit the feeding of highly innervated tissue from slaughtered cattle to other animals because:

A) these tissues cannot be digested by most animals. B) bacteria in these tissues are not killed even at high temperatures. C) prions are found mainly in the brain and spinal cord. D) they are high in cholesterol making it an unhealthy feed for cattle.

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What is the foundation of the Korean diet?

a. soy b. fish c. rice d. meat e. noodles

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Aggressive treatment should be introduced in overweight people if they have which of the following risk factors?

a. Hypertension only b. Cigarette smoking only c. High LDL and low HDL d. Impaired glucose tolerance only

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