List the different factors that impact a person's nutritional status and give an example of each.
What will be an ideal response?
The factors that impact a person's nutritional status include human biological, lifestyle, food and nutrient, environmental, and system factors. Human biological factors include age or sex; lifestyle factors include attitudes and behaviors; food and nutrient factors include dietary intake or composition; environmental factors include cultural preferences; and system factors include health care or educational systems.
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a. true b. false
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