May older adults experience ______ due to factors like limited income, poor health or impaired mobility

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Ans: food insecurity

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A. zinc B. iodine C. magnesium D. silicon

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A breastfeeding mother asks you if alcohol can be eliminated from her breast milk by pumping immediately after drinking a few glasses of wine. What would you tell her?

a. Yes; in fact, discarding your breast milk is a good thing to do if you would like to drink while breastfeeding. b. Yes; pumping will help, but you need to pump for the next 24 hours and discard any milk that you collect. c. No; your breast milk will still contain alcohol; you will need to wait 1 hour per alcoholic beverage and then pump the milk and discard it to be safe. d. No; the alcohol will still be in the breast milk and will clear from the milk as soon as it clears from the blood stream: roughly 2 to 3 hours per drink for a 120-pound woman. e. None of the above will help eliminate alcohol from breast milk.

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Direct calorimetry is a method of estimating energy use that compares the amount of oxygen consumed to the amount of carbon dioxide expired.

a. true b. false

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