How does binge-eating disorder differ from bulimia nervosa?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: While both disorders include eating large amounts of food in a short period of time, a diagnosis of bulimia nervosa requires frequent purging methods to compensate for the calories consumed while the diagnosis of binge-eating disorder does not include a criteria for purging.
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What is the principal reason that information about fat on food labels of infant foods is intentionally omitted?
a. To prevent parents from restricting their infants' fat intake b. Infants have a rapid growth rate and will adjust their overall food intake to meet their needs c. By law, the fat content is uniformly set at 30% of total energy for all infant foods and therefore is not required to be listed d. By law, the fat content must have equivalent amounts of saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fats to provide between 30 and 35% of total energy
A cup of milk contains approximately _____ milligrams of calcium
a. 100 b. 300 c. 500 d. 1000
Which of the following statements is true?
A. For extremely obese adolescents, bariatric surgery is not recommended as a treatment option. B. Obese children are more likely to have poor self-esteem than children who have healthy body weights. C. By the end of adolescence, most overfat teenagers have slimmed down and achieved healthy body weights. D. Compared to other adolescents, sleep apnea is more likely to affect teens whose BMI-to-ages are between the 50th and 75th percentiles.
PS is an 87 yo M admitted to the hospital for failure to thrive. While hospitalized, a physician has determined that PS also has megaloblastic anemia. Which of the following is a good source of folate?
a. asparagus b. beets c. clams d. pasta