You are assigned to complete nutritional assessments of pregnant women at a family planning clinic. After the examinations and interviews are completed, you will meet with the women as a group to answer questions or to begin prenatal education. You will need to identify the women who are at nutritional risk during pregnancy. ?
List risk indicators for which to be alert.
Women who ordinarily consume an inadequate diet; are lactose intolerant; are carrying multiple fetuses; smoke cigarettes or use other tobacco; use alcohol or illegal drugs; are underweight or overweight; gain excess weight; have an insufficient weight gain; lack nutritional knowledge; are economically deprived (poverty); are adolescents or teenagers; have a preexisting chronic illness; have had frequent pregnancies; have low hemoglobin and hematocrit. ?
You might also like to view...
Fat-soluble vitamins _____.
A. are stored only for a few weeks by the body B. include vitamins A, D, E, and C C. can be consumed in very high amounts without causing harmful effects D. can be stored in the body for months E. are immediately metabolized by the body and never stored
How do the liver and gallbladder function together in the process of digestion?
A. Carbohydrate digestion begins in the liver and concludes in the gallbladder. B. Both help mechanically process waste into feces. C. The liver produces bile, and the gallbladder stores and releases it for fat emulsification. D. The liver produces a variety of digestive enzymes, which the gallbladder stores and releases.
Unsaturated fatty acids that contain atoms of hydrogen attached to the opposite sides of carbons joined by a double bond are:
1. cis fatty acids. 2. trans fatty acids. 3. sterols. 4. linoleic acids.
The first step of breaking down fatty acids to generate energy is called
A. Beta oxidation B. Pyruvate conversion to acetyl-CoA C. Lipolysis D. Kreb cycle E. Electron transport