Promoting good nutrition and exercise habits to prevent the development of risk factors is:
1. sometimes called true prevention.
2. part of all levels of preventive care.
3. not the province of nurses.
4. a part of primordial prevention.
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1. Incorrect. True prevention is another name for primary; preventing risk factors is primor-dial prevention.
2. Incorrect. Preventing risk factors is the special province of primordial prevention.
3. Incorrect. Nurses are involved in this aspect of primordial prevention.
4. Correct. Preventing the development of risk factors is called primordial prevention.
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